Katie
Nanny in Edinburgh (also available for babysitting)
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Female Member since Jun 2020 Last Updated Oct 2025 Last Login 28 Oct 2025
My Summary
About Me
I am a passionate person with all that I do. I love to work with Children of all ages and have a wide range of experience, including Specialist care.
My Experience
With over 19 years of experience working with children of all ages, from birth through 18, across diverse settings and countries and specialising in supporting children with special needs. I bring both professional expertise and personal dedication to my work. I have served as a nanny in both live-in and live-out positions, providing solo care, and, working alongside parents, and collaborating with other nannies as part of a team. I have worked in nursery settings running forest schools, in primary school settings, in class rooms and managing before and after school clubs. Working in specialist units with behavioural and additional needs. My experience includes caring for both single children and multiple children, giving me the skills to balance individual attention with the needs of a family. These experiences have given me a deep understanding of family dynamics and the flexibility to adapt to a variety of caregiving arrangements. I am confident that I have the skills and compassion to work effectively with you and your family.
My Qualifications
•A degree in Psychology and Special and Inclusive Education. •A diploma in Children’s Learning and Development - Distinction. •TEFL(Teach English Foreign Language)- level 5. •Kids Yoga Teaching •Swim Teaching fully qualified •Forest school leader qualified.
My Availability
*UPDATE - Available to start December 2025 / January 2026 onwards. (possibly some dates before then)
*Currently look at all options, both full time and part time hours, on a permanent / semi permanent time scale. 6-8 hours a day ideally, but open to discussing other options.
I do have a lot of flexibility as to when I can also do Ad Hoc hours, and I am happy to also support at Weddings and Events and overnights, so please reach out with your requirements and we can discuss further.
A lot of flexibility with working hours in other care roles that I do, so please ask as I will always try to accommodate where I can.
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My Fees
- Babysitting from £20.00 per hour
- Nannying from £20.00 per hour (gross)
My fee’s can range £20-£30ph depending on responsibility, number of Children and specific needs, Ad hoc Nannying, Events and overnights. I can also discuss "package" prices for events as well.
My Documents
- PVG Check (added 29/07/2022)
- Full CV (added 19/09/2025)
- Training Certificate: Early Years Educator - Level 3 - Distinction (added 02/01/2023)
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Latest reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Katie. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk members and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
Katie looked after our ten-year-old daughter for four evenings while we were visiting Edinburgh for a week of the Festival in August 2023; on one evening the nine-year-old son of a friend of my wife, who was also staying with us for a few days, was there too. We've hired babysitters during the Festival for almost every year of my daughter's life, and I can say that Katie was one of the two best ones we've ever had. My daughter takes time to get to know people, but Katie made that easy; she engaged extremely well with her, played games with her, chatted to her, read to her and one evening made dinner for her. All being well, we'll be booking Katie next year! Highly recommended!
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Duncan
on 21/08/2023
Katie is AMAZING! our boys love her :)
Katie looked after our 2 boys (1 and 3 years old at the time), 2 afternoons per week for a couple of months and then has also done the odd babysitting in the evening. Katie immediately got on with both our boys and they really enjoyed playing with her at our flat or going on local adventures. Katie was clearly an expert at communicating with our older boy and she had all sorts of creative ways of collaborating with him to get things done (e.g. getting ready to go outside). We were sad when Katie could no longer work with us regularly but we have really appreciated the odd babysitting, where Katie has managed to put both our kids to sleep solo- an impressive achievement!
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Fifi
on 28/06/2023
Katie was outstanding in her role as an event nanny for our Edinburgh wedding.
Finding someone you could trust to care for your 2 year old daughter and nephews aged 2 & 7 on your wedding day was priceless and made such a difference to me being able to relax and enjoy the day.
Katie was super organised and proactive in visiting the venue before the day so she could plan for different eventualities (& possible Scottish weather!) and the children felt happy and comfortable very soon after meeting her.
She looked after them throughout the wedding day, sit down meal and evening celebrations keeping them busy with fun activities and able to fall happily asleep.
She also helped us later during our visit caring for the 3 children so we could happily go out for dinner knowing they were being safely cared for, given dinner and baths, and were all soundly asleep when we returned home.
She did an amazing job, I feel very lucky to have found her.
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AnnaEH
on 05/03/2023
My previous babysitter found a full time job so I hired Katie for some ad-hoc hours with my 8 month old son and WOW this woman is truly a rockstar. I was blown away by her professionalism, kindness, attention to detail, humor, and overall presence. I almost didn't want to share how wonderful Katie is because I want to keep her all to myself, (haha) but she deserves 10 out of 5 stars. She is always so polite, helpful with cleaning after feeds, and truly makes such a fantastic effort with my boy-- she is a true master of her craft and I will be using her as often as possible!
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KayleyL
on 10/10/2022
We visited Edinburgh from Australia for a wedding and needed a nanny for the whole day and into the early hours of the morning. Katie did a video call with me first so we could chat and virtually meet which put me at ease as we wouldn’t have time to meet her beforehand.
On the day Katie turned up on time and had researched the best places yo take our 10 and 7 year old around Edinburgh. Our kids warmed to her straight away and I was instantly at ease. Our kids had an amazing time with Katie and she kept me updated on their adventures.
I would highly recommend Katie and just wish she was coming out to Sydney so that we could use her again.
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Sam
on 09/10/2022
Katie looked after our children for a month and is fantastic. She is very reliable and wonderful with the kids. We cannot recommend her enough.
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madg
on 30/08/2022
Feel very lucky to have met Katie at short notice who provided childcare at the Edinburgh festival for my 18 month old. She is extremely knowledgeable and has great attention to detail - she also stepped in at the last minute to help out with my colleagues' kids who aged between 9 months and three years. She was totally flexible and completely unphased by all that was thrown at her. Plus all the kids loved her. Thank you Katie! x
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Helen
on 29/08/2022
I was stuck for childcare very last minute in a new city, and Katie came to our rescue one evening to sit for our 11 month old son. She was on time, friendly, and very confident with him, and dealt brilliantly with him waking up twice during the evening. She later came back another time to help us out at late notice again. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Katie to anyone looking for childcare.
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KatieNW2
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