Becoming a childminder's assistant... how do i go about it?

[MySonIsEatingHisSock]

Could anyone give me some advice on how i go about becoming a childminders assistant. i have a four month old DS and will need to start working again in september. There is a chance i could go back to my old job two days a week but if this doesn't work out (DH needs to get agreement to do a certain shift pattern)then i would like to work as an assistant with a childminder.
Does anyone know how i would go about finding a CM who wants an assistant. I have a list of all the CM's in my area, but ringing each one and just offering myself seems a bit weird!
I guess some of you will say just be a CM but i dont want to do that for lots of reasons (size of my house, confidence, lack of child experience etc)
any advice would be fab

Maybe you could spread the word that you're available wherever childminder congregate - toddler groups, soft play areas, nursery/school pickups, here?

Or put an advert in your local free paper/newsagent's window/gumtree website, etc?

Ad in a newsagents window perhaps, at soft-play etc.
Would you be planning to take your DS to work with you, or would DH be caring for him?

Hi all,
I"m new to mumsnet.
Does anyone know what I need to qualify to be a childminder assistant, part time please ?

A 12 hour paediatric first aid will make you more useful as an applicant. Find someone who wants an assistant. Apply for a government gateway account so that once you have found a place you can start the application and do a dbs. You have to have a DBS for that type of setting so need a placement first unless you have already been linked to a childminder setting for a dbs in the last 6 months and can tick known to Ofsted.

I dont see childminding, a job. Rather than, I see it as a vocation.