Lsc_88
Nanny in Stevenage (also available for babysitting)
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27.4 miles from W9 2LF Female Member since Apr 2014 Last Updated May 2025 Last Login 21 May 2025
My Summary
About Me
Hello my name is Lauren Jeffries, I’m 36 years old currently living in Stevenage looking for a lovely full time long term nanny family come September 2025.
My Experience
I have been working in childcare for 17 years now, I honestly do not know where the time has gone! I genuinely love being a nanny and find it super rewarding but “the fit” has to be perfect, for me this is paramount. In my experience, If this is the case everything runs smooth, all on the same page and both have the same respect and morals. I have found in my experience if the fit isn’t right then sadly this isn’t the case and can be challenging. This is why I’m allowing myself a lot of time to find my perfect family. I’m
Currently doing a 6 month maternity role cover and will be looking for new work come this September 2025. my goal out of this is to be in a very happy long term role.
I have been nannying for 14 years now and three years prior to that I worked in a private school as a nursery nurse. I also ran summer clubs/after school clubs getting as much experience as I could from all ages 3-12, I have baby sat for many different families over the years too.
I really enjoyed the homeschooling aspect of what came with being a nanny. My schooling background definitely helped with this as I knew the EYFS and curriculum well. I’m organised and I think this was crucial, keeping the children focused and engaged but making it all a really big game definitely helped!!
My favourite ages are between 3-15, this I feel is a big wide range which I have plentiful experience in and references to support this. The majority of children hsve cared for have been in school, so when I have free time I have worked in different schools doing various roles such as a midday supervisor assistant, teaching assistant and learning support assistant. I love to keep busy and productive, use my time wisely to continue to grow my learning whether that be in a school setting or a home setting.
As a nanny I feel I bring to the table positivity (always!!!!) glass is always half full not half empty, I’m bubbly, reliable, (do not remember the last time I was Ill!!) engaging, fun but firm. I’m very passionate about my work and always have been and continually to love what I do, I hope this never changes. It’s important that I have an easy going, honest, open and Talkative relationship with my new bosses to be, with this in place we really do have the potential to bring out the best in the child and for them to always feel supported. I have 14 years experience under my belt, great glowing references to provide, clean driving licence, a clean up to date DBS check, paediatric first aid trained. I’m looking to work as a nanny in Stevenage, Welwyn, St. Albans, harpenden, hertford and Royston.
I’m more than happy to go beyond your childrens needs too. Such as family laundry, bed changing, batch cooking, food shopping, post office runs, childrens PA to all related things such as school uniform, dentist appointments, hair dressing appointments, keeping an up to date school calendar such as inset days, occasional days, non uniform days, school holidays, making cakes for the cake sale all that fun kind of stuff. I adore animals and love dogs so really happy to do dog walking/dog sitting, vet appointments and anything else that maybe required. Always happy to house sit, as well as babysitting during week evenings and wkends. I’m looking to be really flexible in my next new role and happy to explore other options as well as childcare. I’m here to help to make working full time busy parents feel at ease and reassured knowing everything is jos it should be.
I really appreciate you taking the time to read my profile and im looking forward to hearing from some really fun families along the way to finding the right family for me.
My Qualifications
My qualifications are :-
. CACHE level 3 childcare qualification
. Paediatric first aid 2025-2028
. Clean drivers license
My Availability
My availability for work term/holiday is asap as is my babysitting.
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| Before School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Morning | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Afternoon | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| After School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Evening | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Overnight | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no |
| Last Updated: 06/05/2025 | |||||||
My Fees
- Babysitting from £15.00 per hour
- Nannying from £18.00 per hour (gross)
My rates are always negotiable :)
My Documents
- UK Passport (added 06/05/2025)
- DBS Check (added 06/05/2025)
- UK Driving Licence (added 29/08/2023)
- Full CV (added 06/05/2025)
- Reference (added 06/05/2025)
- First Aid Certificate (added 06/05/2025)
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Parents say
This nanny is consistently praised for her reliability, kindness, and understanding of children. Parents commend her ability to balance fun with discipline, create nurturing environments, and adapt to family routines. She is described as trustworthy, flexible, and a positive presence in the home. Her communication skills and willingness to help with various tasks are also highlighted as strengths.
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We use Lauren regularly to babysit our two boys. She is fantastic - kind, fun and really understands children! Our boys love being looked after by Lauren and she is alway reliable with fantastic communication. I would thoroughly recommend her for any family looking for a nanny.
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Katie
on 09/05/2025
Lauren looked after our now 9 year old son (James) for 2 and a bit years from late 2022, she is a wonderful nanny who we would recommend to anyone.
- Lauren is extremely reliable, which was really important to us as we were often going to work. In the whole time with us she was never late once with what was an early start (7.15).
- She was flexible around small changes to timings or the schedule, it always felt like she was working with us to help. As long as the ask was reasonable she would find a way to make it work.
- Lauren was really sensitive and thoughtful about James’ mood as well as all the practical stuff, and would let us know how his day had been, with sometimes a longer conversation about how he was doing more broadly. We both really valued this, particularly as we were parenting James across two homes.
- She listened to the way we wanted to parent James and adapted the same style. There was nothing radical here, but she was consistently respectful in how she spoke around James, was able to be authoritative when it was required (eg getting himself ready in the morning!) but always in a kind way, but could also tell the difference between “naughtiness” and acting up because it had been a long day etc.
- Above everything else, and for me the most important thing, Lauren is a really really kind and positive presence. She was like a ray of sunshine coming into the house each and we genuinely loved having her over. She is so easy to talk to, it felt like having a good friend over who was helping with James. She fit into the home environment seamlessly. Our James is a lovely boy (of course I am hopelessly biased!) but like all children he has his moment of “high spirits” and Lauren never had a cross word for him, she would maintain discipline if it was needed in a really calm and friendly way, she has the most lovely temperament around children and I completely trusted her not just to carry out all the tasks that needed doing but to treat James with respect and affection while doing it, which gave me such peace of mind.
We are very sad indeed that Lauren is leaving us, and whoever she next works for will be lucky to have her!
Alex A
Jan 2025
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Sharli
on 06/05/2025
Lauren looked after my daughter for about 6-9 months as a nanny and occasional babysitter and was fantastic. Nothing was ever a problem or too much, always keen to please but firm with the children when she needed to be. She’s fun, sociable, great to be around and totally trustworthy. She mad my daughter had some really great times together. I would recommend her without hesitation.
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MillieK
on 06/05/2025
Lauren was a lovely nanny to my two boys, She cared for them from January 2013 when they were 3 and 5 to May 2017. I then re-employed her in September 2018 to January 2020. She is responsible and conscientious, and has a strong work ethic - rarely off and always on time. She loved being with the children and creating fun, and I trusted her completely. She was kind but firm with the boys, and nothing was too much trouble. She created a safe, nurturing and engaging environment but was also able to manage daily routines, unexpected situations and both household and childcare needs with ease and confidence. Nothing was too much trouble, and she was always willing to help, both with the children and helping to smooth the wheels of daily life.
Lauren was compassionate and skilled nanny and I would thoroughly recommend her.
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MPJ
on 05/05/2025
Lauren's first position as a sole charge, full time nanny was with us and she was absolutely fantastic. She has huge amounts of energy and is extremely reliable and honest. Lauren worked for us for about 7 months (it was a maternity cover position) and our children even now still have very fond memories of her. She was always happy to help and learn new things and fitted into our family perfectly. She loves playing with children, helping them with homework, going on trips and doing arts and crafts. However, she is also very willing to cook for the children, tidy up after the children and do children's washing etc. I can't rate Lauren highly enough. This was just brilliant.
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