How to locate and employ a Nanny

Today hiring a Nanny is becoming more and more popular, with the cost involved placing your child/ children into a nursery, hiring a Nanny can be more cost effective. There are many benefits to employing a Nanny, the main benefit is that your child can be left at home and feel safe in their natural and familiar surroundings. Although my children spent time at a private nursery, looking back my wife and I would have hired a Nanny. A qualified Nanny will not only look after your child they will also teach and develop your child’s learning.

Ways of sourcing a Nanny

With the Internet revolution, sourcing a Nanny on the web is fairly easy, using paper based advertising is no longer required. On the internet there are many places to find a Nanny, I would always recommend using the experience and skills of a Nanny recruitment agency. Using a Nanny Agency will take away all the stress and make the whole process less time consuming. A Nanny agency has many sources to find your Nanny. Providing the agency does their job accurately and understands your requirements, they will be able to supply you with a range of CVs that should match your Nanny specification. Additionally an agency will also check out qualifications and references of potential candidates. They also have expertise in drawing up employment contracts and advise you on dealing with tax and national insurance payments. With the new regulations surrounding Criminal Record Bureau checks, all adults supervising children must have an enhanced CRB. An agency will ensure that any Nanny they supply will have an up-to-date CRB and ideally have a certificate in First Aid. Please note that enhanced CRB’s can take 12 weeks to complete.

What makes a excellent Nanny Agency

When you google for a Nanny agency, for example googling the term “nannies london” will return over 470,000 pages. So knowing which agency to choose then becomes difficult. All agencies typically charge more or less the same fee to recruit a Nanny, however please watch out for rebate periods. You need to know what happens should you or your Nanny terminate the contract of employment. Are you permitted to a replacement or partial refund? Rebate periods vary from agency to agency, some offer 4 weeks and the odd few offer 4-6 months. Any professional Nanny agency will be aware and conform with the a standard Nanny code of practice, a good source to find an agency would be from a list provided by the Good Nanny Agency Guide. The agencies listed will all conform with the code of practice. The code of practice can be downloaded in a pdf document. The code of practice will also assist you in interviewing your Nanny.
I have been involved in the childcare sector for a while now, I hope this article gives some tips and advice in your quest in finding the right childcare.