Professional Nanny is a person who takes care of your child/children. Modern nannies may live in a family’s house like a servant and report directly to the lady of the house. Professional babysitter may also be a visiting and take care of your kids in her own home. There are also a part time and full time nannies, certified, who graduated professional nanny classes or English Nanny and Governess School and self-educated. But each professional nanny have to fulfill all parent’s requirements and be an eligible candidate. The main babysitter’s duties are – take care of children, love them, teach, play with them, and report back to the parents. Before hiring a professional nanny the best tip is to write the list with your own preferences and concerns. E.g. Professional babysitter nanny should be young or not, educated and experienced or it doesn’t matter, what would be nanny’s work week, payment, medical tests that potential candidate has been passed, what recommendations do you need etc. This may help you to steer through many problems and find the best nanny for your kids.
Hiring a professional nanny can solve many problems but unfit babysitter will be rather a headache. So you should be extremely careful while choosing and interviewing potential candidates for a local nanny job. Here you can find some useful hints how and where to find a good professional nanny, what to draw attention on and what you should be aware of. Try to provide for every possible problems, formulate your demands, specify the rules that nanny should comply with.
Interview all candidates personally. Ask someone (your husband, patents, friend) to assist you while you are interviewing candidates. You should share the impressions with relatives about the wanted babysitter to make sure you both have a high opinion of a person you are planning to hire. Trust your instinct! Usually the prime impression is true. Ask your assistants what they are thinking about each person. Your kids should also feel positive about their nanny. If the wanted nanny is not friendly, not enough confident, not worthy of being trusted, looks untidy, or if you have any doubts and misgivings – it would be better not to hire that person.
Babysitters Nannies agencies search and test candidates before adding them to their list. Professional agencies always conduct a full examination, including medical tests (such as alcohol or drug tests, blood tests to eliminate possible disease), police records (theft, burglary or other serious crimes) to ensure that no unexpected problems will appear. No bad history should be found in the background of the person being selected as a professional nanny. Nanny agencies do these researches and make a list of considerable candidates. You may choose from the list of professional babysitters or nannies according to your requirements. Usually they all are adequate, experienced and specially trained in a child care. They also have good recommendations which are very important as well. Nanny agencies will cost you additional $$ but your peace of mind worth the expenditure. More likely you’ll find the right person you need who meets your criteria. Online nannies services have a less fee than your local agencies. But all depends on how much work the agency does.
Do not forget to give a careful consideration to nanny’s salary. Salary always depends on many different factors, such as nanny’s experience and education, record of service, work time (full time, part time, night time, temporary) and so on. Salary may be flexible or fixed. Make sure that the salary is up to quality.
When you have already made the decision and professionally babysitter has been hired, do not leave your child alone with the new nanny. Watch nanny fulfill her duties, make remarks if necessary. If your child is grown enough, ask him/her personally about the new babysitter. Monitor the babysitter’s behavior and performance for at least a couple of days. If the feedback is negative, think about it. Do not draw a hasty conclusion, give the professional nanny some time until you’ll make your final decision.
Professional Babysitter or nanny should win your children’s affection. If you could not provide enough attention to your kids or unable to plan their activities accordingly, hiring a babysitter would be the best solution. Professional nanny always draws an attention into kids’ physical and mental abilities. She must satisfy your children’s social and intellectual needs.
To sum up, the most important tips that we would like to give you -
- Do not need to be in a rush when hiring a professional babysitters or nannies.
- Screen carefully when childcare service needed
If you have any questions or concerns finding or hiring a professional nanny feel free to contact our childcare service.