About This Role
This nanny role is for a paraplegic son, focusing on making his day better through engaging activities, exploration, and fun. The ideal candidate will be an adventure buddy, encourager, driver, and helper, dedicated to helping him live life well and experience things he might otherwise assume aren't possible.
Responsibilities
- Be the go-to person during the day
- Help with routines and personal care
- Get him where he needs to go
- Provide hands-on support
- Make life fun and engaging
- Get him outside and take him places
- Come up with things to do and find adventures
- Play games
- Help him experience things he might otherwise assume aren’t possible for him
- Encourage him when he gets frustrated
- Help him build confidence and independence
- Read the Bible with him
- Pray with him and talk about God naturally
- Help him learn that difficult circumstances don’t have to steal his joy or sense of adventure
- Help him forget for a while that there are things he can’t do and start discovering all the things he still can
- Make him laugh and get him out of the house
- Dream up adventures
- Encourage him when he’s discouraged and give him a little grief when he’s being dramatic
- Turn boring days into memorable ones and hard days into wins
Requirements
- Naturally fun to be around
- Engages with kids
- Creative enough to turn an ordinary afternoon into something memorable
- Emotionally steady and doesn’t get rattled when something doesn’t go according to plan
- Comfortable helping with personal care and physical needs without making him feel embarrassed or different
- Knows how to be compassionate without babying him
- Can encourage when something is difficult while also saying, “Come on, dude. You can do this.”
- Dependable
- Genuinely enjoys being around kids and wants to become someone he trusts and looks forward to seeing
- Genuinely loves Jesus and is comfortable praying, reading Scripture, talking about God, and helping our son grow in his faith
Important Details
- Application Question: Why does this role interest you beyond simply needing a job?
- Application Question: This role requires help reaching stuff, long drives, humor, patience, prayer, and sometimes pushing someone who doesn’t feel like doing anything. Which part comes most naturally to you, and which part would stretch you?