I agree with Open Eyes. Care.com is a decent search engine. I know it's not perfect but I have used it to find jobs and have never had a problem. You pay some money but can buy a 1 mont subscription and find people and then exit the system and just keep in touch with the people you find. They give background checks and a lot of different people are on there. Plus you can post a job and people can apply for it.
Alternatively, you could ask around about babysitters people you know have used. If control is an issue, you could have someone over to watch the little one while you are at home doing other things. So if someone comes over and plays with the little one while you doing laundry and dishes or whatever then you can get work done and when the sitter leaves you and the "baby" can sit and watch some tv.
Idk if any of that was helpful. But good luck.