Heavenly Childcare is a leading professional Midlands childcare and nanny agency. We cover the areas of West and East Midlands, including Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Leicestershire.

What is a Nanny

Becoming a Heavenly Childcare nanny means you are a qualified or highly experienced childcare professional, who will care for children in the family home. Your training and experience means that you are a confident childcare professional and parents can trust that you will be responsible in their absence for the health, well being, education and milestones in their child or children’s development. You will work with the parents to ensure their child has the very best care.

As a nanny you can live in or live out and can be a permanent or temporary care giver. There are also options for nanny share. Just let us know what your requirements are and we will do our very best to introduce you to the perfect nanny position for you.

Your wages will vary depending on the hours you are required to work, where you work and whether you are residential.

What is the role of a nanny?

It is important when you are employed as a nanny that you are provided with a contract of employment. The role of the nanny usually involves: working with the parents to provide a consistent approach to the child’s care. This can include, providing healthy meals for the child, taking care of the child’s laundry, taking care of the child’s toys and rooms used by the child i.e. playroom and bedrooms and taking to and fetching child or other siblings from school. As a nanny you will plan and accompany the child on social activities such as swimming, the library and attending playgroups. It is not usual for a nanny to be involved with general household domestic duties unless you agree to this and it is specified within the job description.

What is a mothers’ help?

You may prefer to work as a mother’s help if you lack experience of working with children and have no childcare qualifications. Mothers helps are not nannies and therefore do not have responsibility for the children and you should not be left in sole charge.

Your duties will be helping the parent look after the child and helping with other domestic duties under the supervision of the parent/s. Depending on age and experience your wages would be between £50 – 60 and up to £140 per week net.

What is a maternity nanny?

A maternity nanny is someone who is self employed and works with a family when they have a new baby. Maternity Nurses or nannies usually work for 6 days per week are on call 24 hours per day (although they must have breaks) and work for the family for usually 6 weeks. Although this is not a medical position often maternity nannies are midwives or paediatric nurses. There is no particular requirement for maternity nannies to be specially qualified many of them do hold an OCN maternity practitioners qualification. Ideally you should be experienced with new born babies. Maternity nannies can also work just in the day time or at night and charge an hourly rate for this such as £8 - £11 per hour. Maternity nannies help mother and baby at this very special time, they help to establish routines, support breast feeding and bathing and can help with other siblings. Your aim is to leave mother, baby and family happy, healthy, well rested and recovered from the birth, confident in their skills for the future care of their new baby.

Typical wages for maternity nannies are: for a single baby- £450 - £700 per week. Twins: £600 - £900 per week and Triplets: £900 per week. If baby is a late delivery or you agreed to a fixed period employment and then the parents cancel it at late notice most maternity nannies will charge the parents 50% of the wages that would have been paid during that period. This is an arrangement between you and the client and not the responsibility of Heavenly Childcare.

What is a nanny share?

Complete share
This is where you work for two families (not usually more) looking after the children of both families in one of the children’s homes. Although a premium is paid on top of the normal wages to take into account the extra responsibilities, it is still cheaper for each family as they share a large proportion of your salary costs. There can be obvious difficulties to this arrangement, but lots of families do make this a success. This arrangement can be full or part time.

Split week share
This is when you look after the children separately; this could be 3 days with one family and 2 days with the other family or perhaps split between mornings and afternoons. For tax and employment advice on nanny share we advise you to contact the tax office.

Who actually employs me as a nanny?

Heavenly Childcare is an agency and therefore, does not employ any childcare professionals directly.

The client (parents) employ the nannies they choose to hire and are responsible for all employment matters.

I want to become a nanny what do I do next?

Heavenly childcare can find you a position as a nanny, to do this we will need to chat with you and find out more about you and the type of position you are seeking. We will interview you and check all your qualifications, references, enhanced CRB check and ID. We will discuss any training needs you may have and point you in the right direction. Once this is in place we will enter you on to our data base (AT NO CHARGE TO YOU) and introduce you to suitable nanny positions.

Heavenly Childcare will support you all the way; we can offer you advice and attend the interview with you when you meet the client. Once in a nanny position we offer a conciliation service to iron out any teething problems you may have at first.