Nannies, how much is reasonable pay for this potential job/per week/hour?

[Dillydaydreamer]

I am hoping to do my HV training soon and will need a nanny from 7.30-4.30/5ish mon-friday. No weekends/Bank hols or babysitting duties. To live out.
2 dds- 3.5 and 18mths both in good routines and well behaved for other people!
Daily duties would be to get children washed/dressed and breakfasts, take dd1 to pre-school each morning and dd2 to nursery (2 mornings) or an activity. Pick up at 12 then lunch.
Children sleep in the afternoon for 1.5-2.5hrs. In this time I expect dishes from meals washed and evening meal prepped if needed. That would be for all the family as we always eat as a family. Nothing complicated as we aren't fussy
I then expect the nanny to rest for an hour lunch
I expect her to take coffee when possible
Extra jobs only expected when both children are at school (3hrs for 2 mornings)
switch washer on which I load.
ironing (childrens only)
hoover/dust/tidy/sort childrens clothes etc in their rooms.
There could be odd occasions where she/he would be needed until 6pm but plenty of warning.
Do I sound like a good employer?
How much would you expect to be paid?

Hi yes job sounds good to me, to give you an idea of cost knowing where abouts roughly you are based would help.

Job sounds ok. I might be a bit at preparing an evening meal for the family, but so long as you're upfront about it in the interview I'm sure it'll be fine.

Wages depend on where you are. I'm in the South West and here nannies are paid aroun £7 to £9 an hour gross depending on experience, quals etc. You might get away with offering £350 gross a week if you're somewhere similarly out of London, since fulltime jobs are scare at the moment.

Link to the other thread smae as this one but more relpies

i replied on the other thread- i like a bit aibu

but if you are honest at the interview, a nanny might be happy to do these things, so others might not be

so you have to decide what is more important to you - clean house, well looked after children or a meal cooked and ready for you?

But she's not asking for a meal cooked and ready blondes - just switching an oven on or peeling/chopping some potatoes or carrots. Can't see how any reasonable person would not mind doing that.

i did say on the other thread that i wouldnt have a problem with it

but some may - so then the op has to decide what she wants

Sorry I started this last night but no response ? all nannies had gone to bed, so posted on aibu.
Lets just use the other thread

all the nannies were probaly out on a saturday night

hope replies were helpful

Think the job is reasonable as you have a clear job description.

around £8-£10 an hr net would be a good guide for a salary.

Are you already a qualified nurse as by HV I am assuming you mean Health Visitor and you can only train to be a health visitor if a qualified nurse then undertake the specialist community public health nurse course either at degree or masters level and this is usually funded by a local PCT at band 5 as you need a placement for the yr as 50% of the course is placement orientated.

Also when studying try to get some study time in whilst you have childcare as well.

Yes Lindsay, thats exactly right. I applied for the January intake but the panel had reservations because I haven't studied at degree level (diploma was marked at level 3 in the 3rd year but that was in 1999!) They asked me to prove my ability to study and then to reapply. I am starting my dpp1 module (degree) on thursday, for 10 weeks and am waiting for the vacancies for septembers intake to reapply. Feedback from the pct manager was to phone in april to see if vacancies were out, so I take it everything else, experience wise was what they were looking for.
It is a masters level.

You've clearly thought through what you need. So many people don't.
I don't see any problems as long as you're upfront at the interview. In my last job (live in) I prepared the evening meal for the adults. Mind you I love to cook.
Some nannies will some won't.
£8-10 an hour is about the norm I think for a nanny.
Good luck finding someone and with your training. There needs to be more good health visitors out there.

Thanks tav I am hoping to be one of the approachable ones with sensible advice, unbiased one way or the other and just to help mothers decide what is best for their own individual circumstances iyswim.

Good luck dillydaydreamer I did the degree in 2005 but my practice area is school nursing but was with lots of health visitors think eventually whole service will go 0-19 as it already has in many areas.

I am now doing my masters in practice education so have student school nurses placed with me.

Excellent, good luck with the masters I had to do a presentation on the role of the school nurse at the last interview for Health Visiting (where they sprung it on me that it would be a masters level, not BSc)

Masters is soooo much more interesting, def more challenging and hard work but you get a real sense of achievement, there is no real answer to anything its a whole arguement thing and weighing things up.

Good luck!!

At least you know school nurses are about alot more than just a nit nurse - actually we dont do anymore than health visitors with regards to headlice!!

My interest is safeguarding. Ever want any help/advice welcome to email me.

I think you sound like a great potential employer just from this.
Approachable health visitors are just what's needed. I've worked with several before I nannied and worked with Surestart for a time. Most were fab - really approachable and supportive but there was one horror. Really made me realise (I'm not a parent) the importance of having a good health visitor the mum (usually) could turn to.

Ooh thats really helpful thanks Lindsey I may well pick your brains along the way I CM at the moment so safeguarding is very much on my agenda too.
Thanks Tavvy, I have had experience of being made to feel inadequate and not being listened to by health care professionals I think omg if this is how they treat colleagues how does everyone else get treated. This has been with crap GP, HV who was lovely but minus children and had little grip of practical advice, MW who didn't listen to my needs during labour. Oh yes, things must improve

Sounds a lovely job!

i would have no problem with prepping a meal,esp as have "free" time when children napping or @ nursery & playgroup

Good luck in finding someone

x

Help! We are at our wits end

Have a 1 year old DS, and live in London. My DP and I are both healthcare profs, and we work REALLY annoyingly anti-social hours. Since I had the baby, we have had to have a bizarre job sharing type thing going on where I work 2 days per week and he works 3. This is because no Nursery within a thousand mile radius opens before 0730 and we have to be in work at around that time (or at least nearing the door). We also finish when the patient's operation finishes, that is to say; hours mean't to be 8am - 5pm. Realistically, hours more like 0740 - 5.45pm. Then factor in the 1.5/2 hour journey home from wherever in London we happen to be (we are Locums).

Soooo (deep breath, if you managed to get this far) we are now at the point where we just can't afford to live here and pay our mortgage anymore. We desperately BOTH need to work at the same time, at least one or two days per week. But who/where is going to care for my DS from about 6.30am until 7pm ? In my home preferably?

Help help help before I lose the plot (or we get any more in arrears :_(

i knew a nanny who did 12.5hrs a day - same as yours 6.30am to 7pm

she was single and stayed for 2 years but got paid very well

so it is possible

Hi Adelaide how about an au pair plus? Have you got a spare room?
Or good CM. If you are nurses/HCA can you not arrange shifts so mostly you do opposites so 7-3 for you/2-10 dh so DH drops off at 12 and you pick up at 4 iyswim?
I used to work shifts either 8-5 or 1-10 in scrub and had a CM. DH was away lots so often she was in care for long days 7-6pm
Or advertise for a nanny on a flexible hours depending on shifts?

If you have a spare room, an au pair sounds like your best bet.

An au pair could do, for example, 7am-8am in the morning, drop off at nursery, 5.30pm nursery pick up and look after your DS til you get home (7pm?), and do a couple of hours light housework during the day.