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Luciana

Nanny in South Woodford (also available for babysitting)

5 stars

Female Member since May 2011 Last Updated Jan 2023 Last Login Feb 2024

My Summary

DBS Check
Nanny Housekeeper
First Aid Training
Evening Babysitter
Daytime Babysitter
Newborn Experience
Emergency Babysitter

About Me

I love children! I am a mother and I care for the children I work with as if they are my own. I believe that my years of experience working with all age groups are a great asset for families. I am enthusiatic and well motivated and am always keen to learn new skills. Being a mother, I understand how busy family life can be. Happy children give me great satisfaction and I always ensure that I give my very best to achieve that.

My Experience

MY KEY SKILLS:
Fluent English and French
Portuguese mother tongue
More than 10 years of experience in childcare
Newborn experience
Twins experience
Knowledge of all the early development stages
Experience in introducing the french language to children
Potty training experience
Weaning experience
Confident cook of healthy meals

WHAT I DO:
Undertaking appropriate outdoor activities with the children
Planning and supervising rest, bed and nap times
Responsible for the safety, wellbeing, care and development of young children
Getting children ready in the morning and then taking them to school
Attending any appointment or social event with the children
Washing and bathing children as well as changing nappies
Helping children with after-school activities like homework and French tutoring
Providing healthy meals and snacks for the children
Providing supervision and constant care to children
Discipline the children in line with the family's preferred parenting style
Tidying up children's bedrooms and play areas
Playing with the children and taking them to the park
Planning and organising age related activities
Stimulating children to read and be active
Preparing bottles of milk for babies
Reading to and with the children
Implementing daily routines
Potty training

WORK EXPERIENCES
Dates: October 2018-August 2019
Location: London
Employer: private family
Position: full time and baby-sitter
Duties: looking after a 6 weeks old boy. My daily tasks included: feeding, weaning, preparing healthy meals for the baby and the family, bathing and dressing, changing diapers and later potty-training, creating a safe and stimulating environment, indoor and outdoor play, educational activities, picking up from nursery, occasional housekeeping.
Reason for leaving: started nursery in August 2019

Dates: May 2018-September 2018
Location: Isle of Dogs, London
Employer: private family
Position: full time
Duties: looking after a 10 months old boy. My duties included preparing meals for him, feeding him, establish a daily routine, allowing and facilitating developmental milestones including potty training, developing his social skills, creating a stimulating environment during playtime. I also do light housechores during baby’s naps
Reason for leaving: started nursery in September 2018

Dates: 6 months in 2017
Location: Plaistow, London
Employer: private family
Position: part time then full-time position
Duties: looking after a 8 year old months old girl
Reason for leaving: mother left work to stay home

Dates: October 2011 - October 2016
Location: Woodford Green, London
Employer: private Family
Position: full time nanny
Duties: looking after a 6 months baby girl
Reason for leaving: started school

Dates: November 2007 - December 2011
Location: Wanstead, London
Employer: private family
Position: part time then full time nanny
Duties: looking after a 1 year old girl and newborn twins. I was responsible for food preparation, feeding, supervision and bathing, organising stimulating activities, early education and development.
Reason for leaving: family moved to Canada

Dates: September 2006 - December 2009
Location: Stratford, London
Position: Part Time Nanny
Duties: looking after a 4 years old boy after school. Preparing meals, bathing.
Reason for leaving: he started school

Dates: 1997 – 2005
Location: Paris, France
Employer: Premier Hotel, Disneyland
Position: team leader
Duties: worked as a team leader in charge of 25 staff members in the games room of one of Disneyland’s Premier Hotel complexes. Duties included planning and organising staff tasks, troubleshooting, cashiering, arranging activities and special events. I was also responsible for meeting with senior management to discuss ways to improve efficiency and productivity, and developed new procedures to ensure continuity of activities and customer satisfaction.
Reason for leaving: I moved to UK

Dates: 1994 – 1995
Location: Brazil
Employer: Boticario Perfume Shop
Position: worked as a Customer Service Advisor giving advice to customers on cosmetic products.
Duties: cashiering, cash control, customer service and supervising new staff

Dates: 1990 – 1994
Location: Rio das Pedras, Brazil
Employer: Club Med
Position: nursery assistant
Duties: admitting and looking after the children of the visitors of the hotel, ensuring the children’s safety, liaising with visitors to ensure particular instructions, and that health issues were recognised and dealt with, development, training hygiene and personal care planning, play and educational activities, providing a safe and stimulating environment for young children, meal preparation and clean up cleaning bedrooms, playrooms and bathrooms doing school and nursery runs, strolls in park, various extra-curricular activities.
Reason for leaving: I moved to France

My Qualifications

ESOL certificate (English for speakers of other languages)
Updated First aid certificate
2005 - 2007 Newham College of further education

My Availability

Looking for a full time position from
Available for live-in jobs
Happy to travel with family if required /Ps I’m busy now thanks for all txt .good luck all parents

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
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 no no no no no no no
Overnight no no no no no no no
Last Updated: 11/01/2023

My Fees

  • Babysitting from £15.00 per hour
  • Nannying from £15.00 per hour (net)

Negotiable

My Documents

Reviews

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Luciana started to look after my son since he was only 6 weeks old (now he is almost 11 months old). We're sad to see her leave soon after this month because my son is about to start in nursery. She's very skilled with newborns with many years of experiences. My son trusts her very much at this very young age. She schedules his daily routine, advises on any questions I may have concerned and we always keep transparent communications between each other. She prepares my son's meals and milk, takes him to playground and parks, encourages him to achieve his milestones e.g. rolling, sitting up, crawling, pulling up to stand and at the moment learning to walk.
Luciana is positive, cheerful and energetic all the time. She also speaks French to my son even if he can't speak yet but I pretty much appreciate the multilingual environment that she creates with her presence. She helps me with light house chores while my son's napping or when she's free for a moment. She always asks me proactively if I need any help in house apart from childcare.
I am very grateful to have Luciana as my son's nanny during his first year of life and I'm sure my son has many good memories with his LuLu. I highly recommend her.

  • 5 stars Overall
  • 5 stars Setting
  • 5 stars Cleanliness
  • 5 stars Food
  • 5 stars Communication

by Avatar for Amelia Amelia about Avatar for Luciana Luciana on 03/07/2019

Unfortunately Luciana will leave her present job with me at the end of August as my son will go to a nursery closer to my workplace. I have been extremely lucky to find her and I'm very happy she is my son's nanny. I have seen so much progress on his development since she has been looking after him. Luciana has got a natural talent in dealing with babies. My son was 10 months when we met her (he is now 14) and he liked her immediately, so much that I left him from day one with her. I trusted her from the very first time as my instinct told me she was the right nanny and with my great surprise she did not need any shadowing period. Before meeting her I was sure my son would have struggled to be with somebody different from me since we had been so close for 10 months. I could happily see that he adapted very quickly and enjoys so much staying with her all day. She would cook for him, would bring him to playgrounds and playgroups. She has been even successfully potty training him despite he is only 14 months. She would help me at home with light housechores without me even asking her and that is wonderful considering I work full time. She has got initiative, she is practical, always happy and patient. She has allowed me to return to work without worries and I will always be very grateful to her for that as it made a huge difference to the way I work. I know I can concentrate as I feel reassured my son is with her. She has many years of experience in childcare and she has always given me very useful advices on my son's education, food, routine and many other things. I will miss her enormously and I can't recommend her highly enough.

  • 5 stars Overall

by Avatar for Rossella Rossella about Avatar for Luciana Luciana on 02/08/2018

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