Become A Host Family
Au-Pair's responsibilities may include: awakening the children, dressing infants and toddlers, bathing and playing with the children, preparing meals for the children, looking after their belongings, making the children's beds, doing their laundry and tidying their rooms, cleaning up the kitchen after the children eat or tidying up the playroom once playtime is over, driving
children to and from school, appointments or outings as requested by the host family.
The choice for families
 flexible, live-in child care
an enriching cultural exchange experience for the entire family
experienced professional agency representatives you can trust to provide support
cost effective
The Au- Pair/companion's responsibilities do not include housework unrelated to the children such as cleaning the home or doing all the laundry. They are not necessarily professionally trained child care workers or capable of running an entire household when parents are absent for business or personal travel. Responsibility for the welfare of the children always remains with the parents. Au-Pairs usually work 25 to 35 hours per week, although this is flexible, as it depends on the family needs. The hourly rate is $8.00 an hour and the min weekly salary is $150.00.
It usually takes us 6-8wks to get an Au Pair organised as they go through the immigration process in their country of origin and other tests before they can come to Australia. In certain cases we might have Au Pairs who are already in the country which would not be long before we can arrange an interview with them. As we are unable to arrange face to face interview with our Au Pairs face to face we recommend Parents to interview or email them and discuss your requirements.
Accommodation
The Au-Pair is provided with their own furnished bedroom, it is not acceptable to let the Au-Pair share the bedroom with your children. The au-pair should share all other areas of the house with the family. He/she is also provided with all meals as well as electricity and gas free of charge. Personal long distance phone calls are allowed once a week for e certain time (10min.) otherwise it becomes the responsibility of the Au-Pair. The more comfortable the Au-Pair is in your home, the more successful the host period is likely to be. The majority of families also give their au pairs a monthly travel pass and other benefits such as a contribution to course fees (not necessarily English language)
of up to $100 per semester, allow internet access as well as one phone call per week (10-15min) to their family if skype or MSN is not an option.
Expenses
Travel/Airfares to the host country are the responsibility of the Au-Pair.
Ensure your Au-Pair is one of the family member and is treated with respect. They should have the option of joining the family in most activities, including on weekends, giving the Au-Pair the opportunity to impart elements of their culture into your family.
If you are eager to learn about another culture by hosting a young person who, in turn, provides child care, then fill out the form and mail it back to us.
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Name: Jo from Korea
Age: 23 yrs
Location: small Aboriginal Community located 300km east of Darwin
Hello, I have been placed with a family who lives in a remote part of the Northern Territory. The community is isolated by flood water from monsoonal rain from December to April/May each year. The only way into the community during this time is by light plane. Once roads open Darwin is three hours away by car. This has been a very enriching experience for me and I have learned about Australian culture! I wo...
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