Ami
Nanny in North Hertfordshire (also available for babysitting)
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Female Member since Jan 2021 Last Updated Mar 2024 Last Login 15 Apr 2024
My Summary
About Me
Dear Parents,
After working as a professional nanny in London for 16 years, I decided to relocate at the end of August to Baldock in Hertfordshire. I am currently doing a full time temporary position looking after a 4 months old baby girl until the end of May.
I am looking for a full time temporary position between mid June and September when I will be leaving for New Zeland.
With an impressive background in providing outstanding care to children from infancy—coupled with my resourcefulness, kindness, and caring demeanour—I am confident that I can provide excellent childcare and overall household support in my new role. I am looking to leverage my skills and background to make a positive impact on your children’s lives.
I bring to this role extensive experience in various childcare positions and possess expertise in nurturing, guiding, teaching, disciplining, and providing loving care to children of all ages. I excel at remaining calm and composed in challenging situations while demonstrating superb active listening, organisation, and communication talents. Additionally, I have complementary experience providing overarching support with various household responsibilities.
In the last 10 years, I have worked as a Nanny for several high net worth families, simultaneously providing care to their children. In my previous role, I have been entrusted to look after up to 6 children with varying ages for 4 families who know each other. My reputation and trustworthiness is such that these families also recommend me to several other families in the St John’s Wood area of London. My other functions include looking after children’s educational and emotional needs – keeping them comfortable, safe and developmentally at par with their peers, and providing companionship and mentorship while their parents were away. I enjoy working with young people, and I excel at contributing to their young lives. As part of your household, I am sure that I will be equally contributory to the lives of both children and parents, wherever deployed.
In addition I have over 10 years working experience with babies from infants. In my current position I look after a 6 months baby, I have been with him since January and we created a very close bond. Most of the positions on my CV started when the children where infants and I've been with the same families now for over 7 years. I specialise in sleep routine, weaning, baby led weaning, nutrition and I have extent knowledge of every step of babies mental and physical development.
I speak both Italian and English fluently. I have both Italian and English citizenship, I am first aid trained, DBS checked and a confident swimmer.
Highlights of my competencies and skills :
• Currently undergoing a childcare diploma.
• Ability to effectively manage my time through careful planning and organisation of work activities.
• An aptitude for identifying and resolving problems efficiently.
• Prepared to travel nationally and internationally with the family.
• Confident and imaginative with constructive play and age - appropriate activities.
• Proactive, very creative and have fantastic ideas to keep children occupied.
I am looking to leverage my skills and background to make a positive impact on your children’s lives. With an impressive background in providing outstanding care to children—coupled with my resourcefulness, kindness, and caring demeanour position me to excel in this role. The chance to offer more insight into my background would be most welcome.i can provide excellent references.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions
Thank you for your time. I am looking forward to hearing from you regarding the position.
Yours sincerely,
Aquilegia Ami Polloni
My Experience
PROFESSIONAL NANNY full time
BRENNER family January 2023 - present
• Sole charge of a 6 months old baby boy full time + occasional babysitting and travelling with the family.
• Successfully working on sleep training and baby led weaning, cooking healthy foods from scratch.
• Organising age appropriate activities and games, playing, reading and assisting with reaching every milestone.
• Organising and bringing the baby to daily classes and the local park.
• Creating a weekly food menu, responsible for food shopping, laundry and light house keeping making sure the baby areas are always clean and tidy.
PROFESSIONAL NANNY part time/ temporary
DLUGOLECKY family September - 2022- December 2022
• Mixed shared and Sole charge of a 1 year old boy, half days, Thursday, Friday and alternate Saturdays.
• Bringing the baby to various age appropriate activities, museums, playground and parks.
• Cooking healthy fresh meals and snacks.
• Assisting with nap times.
PROFESSIONAL NANNY part time
HOKFELT family February 2022 – December 2022
• Sole charge of a 3 years old girl Monday to Wednesday full days.
• Bringing her to nursery, sport activities, museums, the playground and the library.
• Playing with her and finding and organising age appropriate activities and playdates.
• Tidying, organising the house, food shopping and ironing.
• Cooking healthy balanced meals for her and the family.
• Occasional babysitting.
PROFESSIONAL NANNY temporary position
GHOUSE family July 2021 – December 2021
• Responsible for 2 children, a girl age 2 and a boy age 9 months.
• Playing with the children, working on sleep training, weaning, and educational activities for the older child.
• Bringing them to parks, museums and fun activities.
• Establishing a routine for the children.
PROFESSIONAL NANNY SHARE full time/part time
• HUYNH Family June 2014 – May 2021.
2 children age 9 months girl and 3 years old boy. I worked as a full time nanny for the family for 2 years. When the kids where old enough to go to school the family really wanted me to stay so we decided to do a nanny share agreement with the Otero Family. I started working for both families part time after school in term times and full time during holidays. After 3 years other families joined the nanny share agreement and I had sole charge of 6 children.
• OTERO family 2016 - 2020, nanny share with the Huynh family.
2 children, a girl aged 2 and a boy aged 4. After school during term times and full time during holidays.
• ZHANG family 2018- present. Nanny share with the families above.
1 girl aged 4. Afterschool during term and full time during holidays.
• NEALE family 2019- present, nanny share with the families above.
1 girl aged 7, after school during term and full time during holidays. ( during holidays I also looked after the sister age 10)
• AISHFORD family 2018- 2019, nanny share with the families above.
1 boy age 8 after school during term and full time during holidays.
• Look after 6 children successfully every day after school and full days during holidays.
• Maintain a complete schedule for all the families and their children to coordinate play dates, sports and activities.
• Assisting the children with homework, school projects, reading assignments, music practise and tutor lessons.
• Organizing the food shopping and preparing healthy meals for the children and the family.
• During holidays organising and participating to various indoor and outdoor activities with the children.
• Decluttering and performing light housekeeping and food shopping.
• Occasional babysitting and overnight staying.
PROFESSIONAL NANNY Sept 2019 – May 2021
Nawbatt Family – part time in the morning 5 days a week
• Sole charge of the 4-month-old baby girl with occasional mother’s help.
• Playing with the baby, working on sleep training, weaning, and organising age-appropriate activities.
• Performing light housekeeping duties like food shopping, folding clothes, organising the baby’s bedroom and toys and cleaning the kitchen and play areas.
NANNY/ BABYSITTER/ OCCASIONAL OVERNIGHT Sept 2014 – May 2021
Various HNWI Families in the St John’s Area, London
• Successfully coordinate childcare support for a large network of families, who all know each other, involving several children - I often have the sole responsibility of looking after up to 6 children at any one time.
• Provided childcare as needed to enable family members the ability to maintain their schedules.
• Creating structure and instructing children with creative lesson plans.
• Organising and participating in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips and providing extra support where necessary.
• Cooking healthy meals and snacks for all the children and their family.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONT’D)
NANNY/ WEEKEND LIVE IN NANNY AND DECLUTTERER Sept 2017 - Mar 2020
Wahbeh Family - part time in the morning, evening baby sitting, occasional weekend overnight stay.
• Decluttering houses, including reorganising rooms, wardrobes, folding clothes, reorganising toys and sorting out laundry.
• Sole charge of 4 children, 2 girls age 1,2 and twin boys age 5. Occasionally babysitting up to 8 children.
• Sole charge of 4 children during the weekends when parents had to travel.
• Helping organising parties and events for the children.
ORGANISER AND DECLUTTERER Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Ignat Family - part time in the morning 5 days a week.
• Looked after a 1-year-old boy.
• Responsible for decluttering the whole house including reorganising kitchen, food, living room, bedrooms and bathrooms, sorting paperwork, reorganising wardrobes, the children’s bedroom and the garden.
PROFESSIONAL NANNY Sept 2016 - Jun 2017
Richardson Family- Fridays all day.
• Responsible for two children, a girl aged 2 and a boy aged 4. Both had physical and mental disabilities.
• Bringing the younger child to activities and walks to the local park.
• Collecting the children form School and helping the mum with bath time, mealtimes and bedtime
PROFESSIONAL NANNY | Melville Family - full time 3 days a week Sept 2013 - Jun 2014
• Responsible for two boys aged 2 ½ and 10 months. Being totally focused on the children, I organise and implement their daily routines and help them to grow, learn and develop.
• Supported potty training.
AFTER-SCHOOL NANNY | Bellin Family fridays Sept 2013 - Jun 2014
? Responsible for two girls aged 8 and 13 and after school care for Mia (age 8).
? My duties involve picking her up from school, helping with her homework, music practice and playing games.
HOLIDAY LIVE IN NANNY | Lonsdale Family Dec 2012 - Mar 2013 then weekends for 1 year.
• Support the family on a Christmas holiday family in Switzerland.
• I was responsible for their 3 children plus an extra 5 children, including 6 toddlers and 2 babies.
• I continued to work for the family on weekends.
PROFESSIONAL NANNY | Reed Family - full time Jan 2013 Sept 2013
• Responsible for three children, two girls and one boy aged 2, 7 and 10.
• Dropping the children at school and collecting them in the afternoon, assisting the children with homework and playing with them.
• Making dinner for the children and the family.
PROFESSIONAL NANNY/ WEEK END LIVE IN NANNY Polenghi Family - full time/ occasional weekends Nov 2010 - Dec 2012
• Sole Charge of a 3 months old baby girl.
• Live in nanny during weekends.
My Qualifications
Undergoing a CACHE level 3 childcare diploma and a TEFL to teach English as a foreign language
My Availability
Monday to Friday 8 am to 7pm/ rota nanny live in 24/7
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| Afternoon | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| After School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Evening | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Overnight | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Last Updated: 29/03/2024 | |||||||
My Fees
- Babysitting from £15.00 per hour
- Nannying from £15.00 per hour (net)
£15 per hour, negotiable.
My Documents
- First Aid Certificate (added 30/03/2024)
- DBS Check (added 30/03/2024)
- Full CV (added 30/03/2024)
- UK Passport (added 05/05/2023)
Reviews
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We had the pleasure old having Ami be the nanny of our children, watching the baby all day then the additional two after they came home from school. She created an enriching environment for our baby, taking him out on walks and to the park, making him healthy lunches and reading and signing songs. She was able to read his cues and created a wonderful relationship with him. She was organized and kind with my older two, ensuring they did their homework and chores but also encouraged art and outside play. She helped with meal prep and dinners when requested. And she was always professional, kind and empathetic. We really enjoyed her and recommend her highly.
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We recently had Ami come and help us with my 3 children who have additional needs and my gosh was she absolutely amazing!
My youngest son immediately gave her hugs as soon as she came into the house, and my older children have been asking when she’s coming back to see them again.
Highly recommend Ami as she is most definitely fantastic with children.
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MsPearce
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Ami
on 13/01/2024
Response by
Ami
on 13/01/2024:
Thank you so much Ms Pearce!
It was truly a pleasure working for you and your family, your children are absolutely fantastic, I can't wait to see you all again!
Lots of love
Ami
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