Hi au pairs/nannies, our family:
1st Parent: Mirela(female)
2nd Parent:
Michael(male)
Location:
United Kingdom
Membership No:
362380
We would like a nanny / au pair who:
Required From: 12 Nov, 2019 Required To: 12 Oct, 2020
Jack Casian
Jack and Mummy
Jack, Mummy & Daddy
Jack and Daddy
Jack, Mummy & Daddy
Introduction of the family offering the au pair / nanny job:
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We are a young family of 3 (and a small dog) and our son Jack Casian is one year old. Dad works nights and mum doesn't have a set working routine. I (mum) work as a translator and my job entails travelling to different cities on a daily basis at various times of the day and night. I am also Romanian and started my journey in the UK as an aupair myself many years ago. You will of course be able to speak to me in Romanian and we would like you to speak to Jack in Romanian as we want him to be fluent in both English and Romanian. You will have to speak to Michael (dad) in English, but please don't worry about your level of English. We will help you improve your English. Michael is actually trying to learn Romanian as well.
Let's mention the really important stuff first, like what you will get for giving us your much needed time and attention. We are willing to pay you £150.00 per week for working 5 days a week and to offer you 2 weeks paid holiday in a year. Should you ever wish to work anything over our agreed hours or days, you will get paid extra. You will of course have your own room and your complete privacy within it and we will provide your food. We have wifi, Sky TV in the living room, Netflix and Romanian TV channels in the kitchen. We don't need you to drive for now and should that need arise in the future, we will give you access to a car should you wish to drive. We are happy to register you with our family doctor, dentist, college for English lessons if required, to help you open a bank account and all stuff like that. We are going to look after you as we would look after ourselves. You will become a valued member of our family and we will support you with any professional and personal plans that you might have. We truly want you to feel comfortable with us and to feel like our home is your home, we want you to be happy in every way.
We will try as much as possible to satisfy your dietary preferences by cooking a variety of meals, both English and Romanian, as well as other cuisines when we feel a little adventurous. Should you like cooking and feel like cooking for us all at times, we would love that, but there is no pressure for you to do that. We are quite happy to cook and normally do so ourselves as often as we find the time. We do sometimes get a bit comfortable and order food in or go out to eat, at least once a week. We would however like you to be able to cook Jack's meals when needed and I'm happy to teach you how to do that. I often give him the same food we cook for us, but sometimes what we eat is not appropriate for him. I normally cook for him a vast variety of meals and freeze them straight away in small portions to defrost and warm up for him when needed.
Jack normally gets up around 6-7 am. I get up with him every morning, give him breakfast, get him changed and get him ready for the day. Unless it is Monday or Friday when I take him to nursery, at around 8 am is when I would pass him on to you and I usually go to work. I would then like you to spend the day with him doing all sorts of activities as you see fit, taking into account his likes and dislikes and his developmental stage. I would ask that you take him out at least once a day at a time that's convenient to you, either in the park, for a walk, soft play area, etc. After feeding him his lunch he normally goes to sleep for about 2 hours. You can use that time as you like. After he gets up, spend some more time with him until around 5:30pm when I or daddy would take him off your hands. You will finish your working day at 6 pm at the very latest (unless we agreed for overtime beforehand for which you will get paid £5 extra an hour). Either daddy or I will then feed him dinner, bath him and spend time with him before putting him to bed at around 7:30 pm.
You will spend 4 days a week with Jack as described above and the 5th day would be either on Mondays or Fridays (as you wish) when we would ask you to cook a few of Jack's meals (for the freezer) and to wash and iron his clothes for the week. You can organise yourself for this 5th working day as you like.
You will get 2 full days off every week, either Monday or Friday and a day at the weekend, either Saturday or Sunday, depending on your preference and our needs. If you want to have the same 2 days off every week, we can discuss and get them set without any problems. Should you ever need any extra days off, we will accommodate that for you. In addition to the 5 days a week, we might also ask you to do some babysitting for a maximum of 2 nights a week. This would be when baby is asleep for the night and you just need to be home in case he wakes up. These nights will be agreed with you in advance so you will be able to plan for what you want to do with your time off.
You will not have to do any actual cleaning around the house. Michael cleans the whole house once a week (how lucky am I right?... I know) and all we ask is that you keep it clean and tidy up after yourself and after Jack when he is in your care, just as you would do in your own home.
I sometimes work from home and will help you more with Jack throughout the day, but other times I work until late at night and you need to be confident enough to be home for a few hours during the night by yourself, just you, the baby and the dog. When I'm not reachable by phone you need to be comfortable in using your own judgement if you need to make a quick decision about what food to feed Jack or how to dress him, etc.
We would like you to be able to spend some of your free time with us should you like to and to also be independent enough to be able to fill in your free time irrespective of us. If you have any question, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to meeting you.
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