Nanny bringing own child

[Shuggybee]

I've had a response to an ad for a nanny who looks great on paper, very experienced and who would like to bring her own baby. In Sept when I would like someone to start her baby would be about 14 months, and my sons would be 2.5yrs and 4.5 yrs(he will be ft at school after Oct). I have no idea what would then be a reasonable rate to offer, I can see from posts on here that £8 ph would be average but assume that slightly less is realistic as she'd be looking after her own baby too? Or not?

I have a couple of other applicants who are young (20) but have the quals and a bit of experience so do you make them an offer to reflect that too?

I'm finding the pay thing a potential minefield already. If I was going back to work I'd happily pay as much as a good person needed but as I'm going to be a nursing student we'll be watching the pennies.

Thanks in advance

I'd expect the pay to be reduced as it is effectively a nanny share - maybe £6/£6.50 and hour?

complete sympathy here re pay dilemma - there was a recent thread on simliar thing that had suggested discount for nanny bringing own child (from memory it was something like 25-30% less).

Our nanny brought her own child and reduced her rate by about 25%, I think, snce she was effectively providing her own childcare, too. It worked really well - DS enjoyed having a close friend.

Just sort out what you will do about food etc - she fed her child from our fridge - and outings / groups.

Also - what if she can't work because her child is ill? Our system was that if she was ill, it was paid time off, if her child was too ill to bring she would simply work another day instead - since she worked for us 3 days a week.

Thanks all. Will definatly bear all this in mind. Just got to ring the ladies up now and think about interviews!

I will be taking my baby back to work and will still get the advertised rate of pay, I know 2 other nannies who take own children and still get same rate too. I wont be doing the job any different, and we will be following my charges routine not that of my own child, thats what i get paid for. In effect my child will be dragged along to sch runs, lessons (swimming, music) and groups etc.

Ironically, that doesn't sound very well balanced (for your child).

I think taking an existing nanny back with her child after mat leave is a bit different than hiring a nanny who has a child for the first time. The latter is a share. The former is often overlooked because don't want to give the nanny a pay cut.

i know many nannies who take their own child to work, they earn about £10 less a day

To be honest, I would take the fact she has her own child as a bonus, compared to the others you describe. I am 21 and did childcare NVq etc etc but I feel I am about 50 times better now I have my own child. From the Nanny's point of view though, I think she will expect to get more than £6 or so an hour as it isn't at all like a nanny share. If it was a nanny share then she would be able to get help with the childcare costs and be earning a good wage at whatever other job. The bonus of bringing a child with you is that there is no childcare costs, not tha it just gets deducted out of her wage iyswim. I do agree that a BIT less is fine as there wil be an extra child but if you are offering £8 to somebody else, I wouldn't offer less than £7 to somebody else, or it won't be worth their while long term and you might find she will leave as soon as something better comes a long.

I did it for a while when I was going through the cM registration process. It is hard having to bring your child, but cartainly didn't have a negative effect on the children I looked after, just meant I had to wake my DD to bring her with me, same if she was asleep when they got home. My DD was much younger though, I started when she was 2 weeks old and finished when she was about 10 months old.

But remember your market of prospective parents will be much reduced as not many potential employers would be happy with this sort or arrangement.

(though agree it is different with a nanny returning after Mat leave with old child)

I never had trouble finding people who wanted me with my daughter, and she was young and I was still breastfeeding. To be honest, it did her the world of good too as although she was dragged around a bit, she learnt to love other children and hoping this will help us when our next baby is born (she will be about 15 months)

Personally I would value a nanny with own child in the same price bracket as a nannyshare arrangement. Therefore would expect to pay a similar amount.

even when i had 2 children in toe, i found it easy to get a job at the amount of money that i was looking for.

I had experience that "just" a nanny didn't have therefore, I chose to charge market rate.