Before and after school and holiday nanny

[citymum01]

Hi,

This is my first post so sorry if its a bit specific, I read some similar stuff on here already tho and the responses were so helpful!

I need to find some before and after school care for term time and then holiday care for my DS. As both me and my DH are out of the house from 6am-6pm I think a nanny would be the only viable solution without putting too much stress on my DS but I am not sure how to arrange this kind of work. It would essentially be full-time as 39 weeks 6 hours a day (6am-9am, 3pm-6pm) and then 13 weeks 12 hours a day works out at 30 hours a week. It would only be Mon-Thurs.

A bit more info: I dont need the nanny to do much, if any, housework other than making DS meals and may be a few odd things now and then (food shopping, tidying kids bedrooms). I would want them ideally to be "on call" in a sense in case DS is sick but this doesnt happen very often and I could ask someone else (my mum) s a one off if the nanny really couldnt do it. As u can see it is an early start (6am) every day, woulod this be a problem? We dont need much babysitting (have my mum) but it would be useful to use the nanny sometime, never work weekends but do sometimes need weekend babysitting (to go to weddings etc). Nanny may need to take DS to after school clubs etc. It would be a live-out role so ideally would want someone local but there is the space for the nanny to stay over in the week if they wanted to sometimes (due to the early start). Also I know nannies holidays follow certain rules but I would take my 5 weeks holiday in school holidays so the 12 hour days for the nanny would not be 13 weeks in reality more like 7 or 8.

I live in Essex and want to know really how much this kind of job would cost me and whether it is the kind of thing nannies would be interested in? It's for next year, I am just trying to get an idea if this would work or if I need to come up with an alternative. I am thinking it sounds like a good job for someone as we are a nice family and quite flexible so hopefully I can stop worrying about it!

I think you need a live-in au-pair that will do longer hours than usual.
Or do the morning drop offs yourself and get an after school nanny and lots of holiday clubs for school holidays.

I think you'll have a lot of difficulty to be honest because of the 6am start. A live in person could simply get your DS up and out to school at 7.30am

6am is going to be hard, not many people will want to start work at that time, they may need to be getting up at 5 or earlier. Certainly the more local the person the better.

Are the timings taking account of travel from school to home, home to school? If 3pm is the pickup time, then nanny will need to start work a bit earlier as they will need to get to the school, park car, get to the collection point. It may just be a few minutes but you need to build in the time into working hours.

Be generous on holiday entitlement, you want to find someone who will do this job and who will accept that all holiday has to be taken during school holidays. Make the job appealing by giving benefits which exceed statutory minimum.

Is it always 4 days per week, Mon-Thurs or is that just during school holidays?

Cost to you could easily be 15,000 gross plus cost of activities, mileage, food. Will depend what you are able to offer and what someone is prepared to accept.