“What are reasonable duties for a nanny when children are nursery\/school?” This is a question which comes up quite a lot, and as some nannies will be finding themselves with some free time as of this week, we thought we\u2019d take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looking after other children<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If there are younger children in the family, it\u2019s a no brainer. A nanny\u2019s wages won\u2019t go down because they only have 1 child during these hours, and they\u2019re still on call for any illness or closures, plus school holidays. If there aren\u2019t younger children it\u2019s possible to set up a nanny share, and this kind of arrangement can work well \u2013 Family A get to keep their nanny and reduce their costs, Family B get some solo time and reduced costs too. Bear in mind that any such arrangement needs to be formalised, and a nanny should never be offered as a free babysitter to another family without checking first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nursery duties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Most nannies will do nursery duties anyway, but usually while children nap. As a child going to nursery won\u2019t be napping any longer (although some do) and a child at school won\u2019t, so a nanny can use child-free hours to do laundry, ironing, batch-cooking (especially useful for school holidays), cleaning children\u2019s bedrooms and bathrooms and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PA duties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One big advantage of nanny is having someone at home to receive urgent parcels and let in workmen. With a little negotiation a nanny may take on some PA duties for the whole family, such as shopping for birthday presents and other specific items (or doing research online), ordering and receiving a weekly internet shop, dropping off dry cleaning, going to the Post Office and a hundred and one organisational duties around the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Light housekeeping duties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nannies go into childcare to look after children, rather than clean, but adding a little light housekeeping such as hoovering, family cooking or family ironing. Most won\u2019t clean parent\u2019s bedrooms or bathrooms or do family laundry (especially if it involves underwear). For that you would need to find a nanny-housekeeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “What are reasonable duties for a nanny when children are nursery\/school?” This is a question which comes up quite a lot, and as some nannies will be finding themselves with some free time as of this week, we thought we\u2019d look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[299,306,326],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nannies","tag-nanny","tag-nanny-employer-relationship","tag-nanny-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}