Looking for advice from nannies

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I am looking for afterschool care 5 days a week for my 3 children. What would encourage you to apply (sensible answers please!!) eg min no of hours, pay etc, would appreciate your input, think I may have to offer more hours , but what could I expect nanny to do when there are no children around?

My friend is an after school only nanny but gets a higher rate for those few hours, about £3 more an hour than she would normally get but she has limited herself hours wise getting another job.

I'm assuming you want something like 3.30-6.30

Tbh after school jobs are hard to fill as just not enough hours

Often a nwoc is the solution - would you want this?

You could try a nanny/hk role and offer more hours say 1-7 and then the person come in and do some cleaning / ironing or cook a meal

Would you ever need daytime care if ill or cover for holidays? If not then maybe someone who works in a nursery etc in the mornings may like this

Many thanks, yes the core hours would be 3.15 to say 6.15, but think I may need to offer more hours.

Yes my previous nanny had her own child, so that's fine.
Would nannies be happy to do , say, cleaning as an example, when the children aren't around?

totally varies, me personally no, but my friend happily does

if you state in the ad maybe after school nanny required 3-6.30 and then say extra hours a day could be had for light housework

and see what response you get - least those who apply will know whats on offer

Thanks for the replies, where do you normally l

Oops!! Where do you normally look for your next role? Do u use agencies or a particular website or anything?

I wouldn't do cleaning, but would sort childrens rooms/ playarea/ change childrens bedding and their laundry/ food shop/ prep dinner for whole family/ sort school things like costumes etc.

If you offered say 12-7 to someone doing the above I think you would have more candidates. 12-2.30 ish to prep dinner, and do bits from above, then the rest of he time will be off to pick up and child related things ( homework/ park/ etc)

Money to make it worthwhile. You are asking someone to foreclose the full time option they may prefer so you need to pay more or face finding a replacement in the near future.

Plus optional extra hours and decent pay for once a week housecleaning or extra hour and a half a few times a week or whatever you think you need.

Thanks for the ideas ladies, much appreciated!

I did a job like this for a year approx 3years ago. It was 3.30pm-6pm 3 days per week, I charged £10ph (am in the East Midlands).

3 school aged children who walked back to the house on their own, I met them there. I had to prepare eve meal but was always something pretty easy, then cleared up washed pots etc after they had eaten.

Very easy job, I did offer to do some ironing as the kids amused themselves/had playdates a lot so I wasnt entertaining them as such, but was told no need to do housework just had to be there. Another huge bonus was that I was always able to leave 10-20mins before official finishing time as the Dad was always home early and let me go.

It suited me as fitted in with my other job at the time, and was (kind of) on my way home so wasnt going too far out of my way to get there.

I only left because I was 38wks pregnant.

Hope you find someone suitable!

Have you tried looking for university students. You could advertise on a notice board inside your local uni (if you have one) students can often do those hours and the money would be helpful. Many universities have education degrees so students are likely to have experience or a desire to work with children

Many thanks good idea re uni, will look into that.

We advertised for ours on Gumtree and had lots of applicants, quite a few of whom were suitable. We ended up with a combo of nwoc (but she left her child at home with her mum) and an actress who had lots of casual jobs. We also used a student at one point for a very part time job.

We paid them the normal rate for a nanny - not sure why some people think you should pay extra because its less hours.

I would think that given the chronic shortage of jobs you would find someone to work those hours.

You'd think so but the agencies don't have anyone so wasn't sure where to advertise, ideas most welcome, will try gumtree aswel , thanks for he tip!

Definitely try gumtree - look at the nannies advertising themselves too. I found my nanny that way - she called herself nanny/ housekeeper, and she worked alongside me part time for 6 months while I was on mat leave with twins (now she's their full time nanny) and did light cleaning, laundry, ironing, c

Cooking etc for us as well as childcare

One reason to offer more is to make it worthwhile for someone to possibly lose benefits or see them reduced. Some people would be left working for less than they could get not working if the hours are not going to add up to much.