Care Finder Childcare Navigation for Employers

Finding a childcare centre is a research project that runs on working hours. Licensing records have to be checked, waitlists joined in the right order, tours booked during the day, staff turnover assessed, and fee structures compared against a schedule the employee has not finalised yet. Employees do this at their desks, badly, over several weeks. Care Finder moves that work to a dedicated care consultant. The consultant takes the employee's requirements, sources centre-based options in their actual local market, verifies licensing and inspection history, checks references, assembles a shortlist with the trade-offs stated plainly, and sequences waitlist applications so the family is not depending on a single outcome. They stay involved through tours and the decision. For an employer, the value is coverage across markets you have no local knowledge of. A distributed workforce means childcare searches happening in dozens of towns and several countries at once, and no HR team can support that with a provider directory. A care consultant working case by case can, in 150+ countries.

Care consultant reviewing childcare centre options for an employee

What the Consultant Handles

Childcare navigation delivered case by case, in the employee's own market.

Requirements Intake

Schedule, location, commute, budget, and any specific needs, translated into search criteria that reflect how the family actually lives.

Centre-Based Search

Nurseries, daycare centres, and preschools sourced locally, with availability and fee structures confirmed rather than assumed.

Licensing and Reference Checks

Licensing status, inspection history, and references verified before options are presented, so the shortlist is already filtered on quality.

Relocation Searches

Employees moving city or country get a search rebuilt in the destination market ahead of the move, rather than after they arrive without cover.

Interim Backup Coverage

Where a place is not available immediately, Helpr Network Care bridges the gap at $45-50 per hour with a four-hour minimum and a 97% fulfillment rate.

Funding the Outcome

Care Funds cover the arrangement, and My Choice Care funds a nominated caregiver at a $12-20 per hour average subsidy where in-home care is the better fit.

Childcare Navigation

The Search, Done by Someone Whose Job It Is

Care Finder assigns the employee a dedicated care consultant who runs the centre-based childcare search end to end. Sourcing in the employee's own market, licensing and inspection checks, reference calls, a shortlist with honest trade-offs, and waitlist sequencing so a single rejection does not restart the process. The employee makes the decision; they do not run the project. For an employer with headcount spread across many locations, this is the only practical way to support childcare searches in markets your HR team has no visibility into.

Employee reviewing a vetted childcare shortlist
Why Navigation Beats a Directory

Support That Scales Across Every Market You Employ In

What a dedicated care consultant does that a provider list cannot.

Local Market Sourcing

Options are sourced where the employee actually lives, not filtered from a national list that thins out beyond major metros.

Licensing and Reference Verification

Inspection history, licensing status, and references are checked before an option reaches the employee's shortlist.

Waitlist Sequencing

Applications are ordered and timed so the family has parallel options running rather than one application and a wait.

One Consultant, Whole Search

The same dedicated care consultant holds the case from intake through tours, so context is never lost between conversations.

Childcare Navigation FAQs

What does the care consultant actually do?

They run the search. Intake on requirements, sourcing centre-based options in the employee's local market, verifying licensing and inspection history, checking references, assembling a shortlist with trade-offs stated, sequencing waitlist applications, and supporting the employee through tours and the final decision.

How is this different from giving employees a provider directory?

Can it support employees who are relocating?

What happens if there is no immediate availability?

Does this only cover centres, or also in-home care?

How does the employer fund the resulting arrangement?

Employees Searching for Childcare on Work Time?

We will show you how a dedicated care consultant takes that search off their desk.

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Childcare searches wherever employees live

Give Employees a Care Consultant, Not a Provider List

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