How to Select A
Safe Nanny
For Your Child
A Step By Step Guide
Information you should be prepared to tell the nanny about
the position being offered:
The
hours and days – and if you are flexible on them.
The
payment and how payment will be made – in cash or checks, weekly or
bi-weekly.
What
you will pay for overtime, and if the nanny is available to work overtime
on occasion?
If
there is driving as part of the job – and if you do not want the nanny
driving your child, make that very, very clear.
You
should make it clear where the nanny can park when she comes to work, and
that if she gets a ticket parking illegally, make it clear whose responsibility
the ticket is – yours or hers.
Sick
days. How will you handle sick days? Will you pay her if she can’t come to
work or not? Remember that if you do not pay her, she may come to work
sick because she needs the money. What you can do to compromise is to
offer to pay a certain number of sick days a year. Make it clear if you do
or do not want the nanny to come to work if she has a fever, a cold, a stomach
virus, etc. If you don’t particularly care, you can play it by ear, but
many parents do care about this because they don’t want their child to be
sick, and also if their child does get sick from exposure to a contagious
nanny, the nights will be difficult for the child and the parents.
Holidays.
Decide if they will be paid or unpaid and if you need her for
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc.
Tell
the nanny a little bit about yourself and your family.
Tell
the nanny why you are looking to hire someone to care for your children.
