To ask our nanny to also be a housekeeper?

[Soon2BeMumof3]

We have a wonderful part time nanny who we are desperate to keep.

I have gone on maternity leave and will be home until July. We don't need a nanny doing full days at the moment.

We would however like someone to do some basic housekeeping once a week- laundry, change and wash sheets (my most hated task- very unmumsnet of me I know!), organising the children's clothes and linen cupboard etc. Our nanny is a really tidy and organised person (I am not!). I'm sure she would be great, and we already trust her.

She is a trained childcare professional with a lot of experience. Would I be insulting her to ask if she would like to also have a housekeeping role with us?

Would obviously pay her properly and not expect her to mind children while housekeeping and vice versa.

I used to be a professional nanny, and wouldn't have been the least bit offended at being asked this. If she wants the money she may say yes, if she doesn't, she says no and you move on. Easy as can be, non offensive. I'd phrase it how one of the earlier posters said.

That being said, I like doing stuff like that and had a nanny position that was half the hours meal prepping, cleaning shoe closets, organizing cutlery drawers etc and then half with the kids. So it's not unheard of.

Also my own view is that if you earn more per hour than a cleaner does and you don't like cleaning- then why on earth wouldn't you have a cleaner and work more to pay for it?

Quite.

And I suppose I could hassle DH into spending more of his evening cleaning but then I'd be frustrated, he'd be frustrated

Instead you need to ‘hassle’ DH into spending more of his and your money for a cleaner more than once a fortnight.