Olivia

My Summary

My Experience

19/08/2024 – 03/02/2025 Full time sole charge Nanny
Nanny position with three children aged 3 years old, 4 years old and 5 years old. Although this was a primarily sole charge role, Dad was very hands on and we often worked as a team too. The mother of this family had tragically passed away a few months prior to me beginning to work with them so we wanted to keep things as calm and smooth as possible in this very delicate situation.
My role here included:
• Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children in my care
• Liaising with other Nannies and parents to organise and attend play dates
• Ensuring excellent hygiene practice of myself and children and our environment where possible
• Batch cooking
• Preparing family meals and snacks
• Planning and carrying out fun and stimulating age appropriate activities for the children
• School drop offs and pick ups
• Putting children to bed for their nighttime sleep
• Working closely with Dad to ensure we were running the household smoothly and each child was receiving what they required from us both


04/01/2022 – 16/08/2024 Full time sole charge Nanny.

Nanny position with two children aged 11months old and 2 years old at commencement of employment. Sole charge role with parents working a mixture of both from home and out of the home.
My role here included:
• Preparing all children’s meals and snacks
• Planning and carrying out fun and stimulating age appropriate activities
• Batch cooking
• Usual nursery duties
• Ensuring excellent hygienic practice of both myself and children, and our environment wherever possible
• Changing children’s nappies and getting them dressed appropriately for our day
• Bathing children
• Keeping to each child’s routine and adjusting as needed
• Organising, attending and hosting play dates
• Booking and taking children to vaccination appointments
• School drop offs and pick ups as required
• Encouraging manners and general etiquette
• Putting children down for naps and night time sleep and waking respectively
• Booking and attending age appropriate classes and groups


12/04/2021 – 22/11/2021 Full time sole charge Nanny.
Nanny position with one year old child. This was a sole charge role; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the parents were both majority working from home so there were periods of shared care.
My role included:
• Preparing and giving child all meals and snacks
• Waking child and putting child down for naps and occasionally for night time sleep
• Engaging the child in fun, age appropriate activities
• Taking child out for fresh air and walks
• Batch cooking
• Usual nursery duties
• Ensuring excellent hygienic practice of myself, child and our environment wherever possible
• Changing child’s nappy and getting them dressed for the day and for sleep times
• Bathing child
• Keeping to child’s routine and making any slight adjustments if necessary
• Organising and attending play dates with similar age children
• Encouraging manners and building confidence of child


28/09/2020 – 28/10/2020 Part time sole charge Nanny.
Nanny position with one 2 year old child. This was a sole charge role; however, parents were mainly working from home due the COVID-19 pandemic.
My role involved:
• Getting the child dressed and changing his nappies
• Putting the child down for naps
• Engaging the child in fun and age appropriate activities
• Taking child out for walks and fresh air
• Ensuring his well-being and safety
• Ensuring excellent hygienic practice of both myself, child, and our environments
• Preparing all three meals and snacks for child
• Batch cooking
• Usual nursery duties


6/07/2020 – 23/10/2020. Full time shared care and sole charge Nanny.
Full time Nanny with a family consisting of three young children aged 5 years, 2 years and 1 year old. This is a role consisting of both shared care and sole charge.

My duties involve:
• Ensuring the safety and well-being of all three children whilst in my care
• Driving the children to school and activities
• Ensuring a high standard of hygiene and hygiene routines are kept (especially with the COVID-19 pandemic)
• Ensuring excellent standards of hygiene of both myself, the children in my care and our environment to the best of my ability
• Following and keeping to a routine to ensure stability, a sense of security and self-discipline within the children
• Baby led weaning
• Providing and engaging in stimulating play


Full time Nanny with a family consisting of two children aged 4 years and 5 years old (Aged 2 years and 4 years when position started).
My duties whilst the children are in my care consisted of:
• ensuring the safety and well-being of both of the children
• Preparing varied and nutritionally balanced meals
• Driving the children to activities and school/preschool
• Ensuring a high standard of hygiene and hygiene routines are kept
• Providing and engaging in stimulating play
• ensuring excellent hygiene standards of myself, the children and our environment
• Keeping to a routine to ensure a sense of security and self-discipline within the children.
• Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, I remained their Nanny and had been homeschooling the eldest, using a combination of resources provided through the school and our own.
Unfortunately, my time had to come to an end with this family due to them moving up the North Yorkshire.
Within my time with this family I have grown very close to the children and formed strong bonds which I hope continues even beyond my time as their nanny.

Mother’s-help for a family consisting of two children aged 1 years old and 3 years old. Although having occasional sole charge this was majority a mother’s-help role. Both children had severe allergies so ensuring the children were kept clear of any allergens that could cause a reaction was vital.
My responsibilities:
• Dressing the children
• Taking the children out for walks and to the park to play
• Pick up and drop off from nursery
• Feeding the youngest and assisting with the weaning process
•Administering anti-histamine when an allergic reaction was taking place- reducing the necessity to use the epi-pen


I have experience working as a part-time sole charge with some shared care Nanny, this was with a family with two young children ages 2 years and 4 years. Here my duties included:
• Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the children
• Preparing varied and nutritionally balanced meals
• Providing stimulating play and educational opportunities
• Toilet training of the youngest child
• Taking the children out for walks, and to the local parks and woods
• Promoting and enforcing hygiene routines.


Also have experience as a Mother’s help as part of an educational placement with a family of four, consisting of Mum, Dad, and twin baby boys. I was caring for the boys from age 8 months until 13 months old. I also had contact and meet ups with them from around 6 months, allowing them to get used to their new help.
My duties within this role included:
• Supporting with baby-led weaning
• Changing nappies and clothing
• Preparing bottled formula and feeding the babies
• Following and keeping to a routine
• Ensuring excellent hygiene standards of myself, the babies and our environment
• Providing stimulating, fun play
• Safeguarding from harm and danger
Within this placement I formed strong bonds and relationships with each family member, I feel I had a positive influence upon the children’s lives, ensuring they were safe, happy and nurtured within my care.

I have also had educational placements within a Nursery school and a SEN school.
Working within these placements assisting teachers ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the children and caring for their everyday needs and routines.
Within this role, my responsibilities included:
• Carrying out observations to establish children’s levels of ability
• Provide focus activities to promote development and learning
• Plan and carry out daily activities to stimulate the children
• Engage with all children in both groups and one-to-one
• Safeguarding within the team of staff to ensure every child is clear from harm
• Escorting children on trips (off site) and complete activities supporting other team members
• Working closely with SENCO (special educational needs co-ordinator) in identifying children with potential additional needs.

In addition to this, I also have been a casual babysitter for different families.

My Qualifications

Completed my paediatric first aid training.
DBS checked.
Diploma in Health and Social care, within this course topics covered include: caring for children and young people, development through the life stages, developing effective communication, caring for individuals with additional needs, etc.
10 GCSEs

My Availability

I am available Monday through to Friday each week.

My Fees

• Nannying from £19.00 per hour (gross)
• Babysitting from £17.50 per hour