What does your live out nanny do?

[GucciLife]

Just that really. I'm considering hiring a nanny, how much do you pay her and what does she do?

I don’t have a live out nanny currently, but I can answer your question!

I would expect a live out nanny to do the following:

Childcare (obviously)
Children’s washing and putting away clothes
Cooking for the children
Helping them keep their rooms tidy
General tidy up of areas of the house used throughout the day
Organise play dates etc
Take them to activities/groups

In London, for an experienced, professional nanny I’d be looking to pay around £12-15 gross depending.

I'm a nanny and do all the above. Plus sewing, mending, shoe polishing, packing for holidays, helping with school study/practising extra curricular activities, organising hair/dentist/doctors appointments. Keeping track of their toys/rotating and cleaning them.

£14 per hour gross, ten hours a day.

@firstworldproblems2018 thank you for replying, with regards to cooking would you provide her with recipes? Or do you just tell her what the children like to eat?

In the handover period I’d go through what my children liked, what she was able to cook, what was acceptable for me for food wise (ie fish fingers etc are Fine but only once a week for example). Some people I know will get a weekly food shop and then write a menu plan out for the nanny so they know exactly what to cook, others would get food in and leave the nanny to it.

Depends on how confident a cook your nanny is tbh.

I don't currently nanny, but I did for ten years. I don't think I ever was given recipes. Parents would usually tell me if there was something their child particularly liked or disliked or if there was something they did/n't want them to have. Otherwise it was completely up to me. Mostly, I think they appreciated their child being exposed to different dishes and recipes than their parents cooked. My charges learned to make all sorts of things. I did have a parent ask me to never ever give her kid lentils again though after an explosive event. Her son enjoyed them so it was a shame.

I wouldn't expect to be told what or how to cook as I'm confident with that but good to know what the children like. Although also good to introduce new things. I just add stuff I need to the Ocado order and that's that.

All that and for only £14/hr gross, Ms? WOW.

I don't need a nanny full time mon-fri. Just a few times a week pick them up from school and look after them til 8ish. Then will need her to come and look after them if I'm going out in the evenings, and also school holidays.

Is this ok?

£9 an hour - after school and holidays three days a week. Makes dinner for the kids with usually enough leftover for us, tidies their rooms with them, keeps playroom tidy oh and she stops the kids from killing each other. She is an angel!!!!

Shorter hours much harder to fill remember she needs to earn a full living and it'll be hard for her to find a job to work round those hours. You'll likely need to pay more per hour and it will be harder to find someone.

You might find someone who is willing to do those hours- maybe a teaching assistant at a local school? After school nannies are a thing, but harder to come by. Some nanny agencies will specialize in this, but you'd have to pay a fee.

Well it's a salary of £41,000 a year plus overtime so I don't think I'm getting a bad deal. That's the estimate of what my hourly pay is as I've only ever talked salary.

If you need the nanny for holidays she won't be able to fit it round another job, so you need to pay well for those 'few hours' you need her on a school week.

I'd ask mn to move this to nannies forum if I were you