Exploring the Role of Nanny

This report explores the role of a nanny, including partnership working, barriers, skills required, daily care responsibilities, and advantages and challenges. It also discusses the role of nanny agencies and the Ofsted registration process.

Exploring the Role of Nanny

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Partnership working for Nanny.............................................................................................1
1.2 Barriers to partnership working and ways to overcome them...............................................1
1.3 Benefits of partnership working............................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Roles of Nanny......................................................................................................................2
2.2 Skills, behaviours and attributes required in role of Nanny..................................................3
2.3 Daily care responsibilities of nanny for children...................................................................3
2.4 Advantages and challenges to role of nanny.........................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
3.1 Role of nanny agency............................................................................................................4
3.2 Ofsted registration process and implications.........................................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
4.1 Action plan including steps to take for planning to become nanny.......................................5
4.2 Skill gaps and ways to mitigate these....................................................................................6
4.3 Sources of support for planning to become a nanny..............................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
A nanny is an individual, who administer child care. The care is given within the family
setting of children. Various roles are played by a nanny for taking care of a child including their
bathing, dipering, feeding etc. This report intents to explore the role of a nanny by taken into
considerations various aspects like partnership working, barriers etc.
TASK 1
1.1 Partnership working for Nanny
 Parents/Carers: A nanny work in partnership with parents by sharing the knowledge and
information to parents transparently regarding what happen when their child is in care of
nanny. A nanny should make the parents inform about day of their child.
 Extended family members: While working in partnership with the extended family
members, a nanny should have team mentality. They must working alongside families as
a member of team in order to ensure that children receive best care and upbringing as
possible (Burke, 2015).
 Friends of family: A nanny must maintain good working relations with friends of family
and work in partnership with them so that if in case, parents are not available in any
situation, nanny can share information of child to friends of family in order to get support
in providing adequate care.
 Other professionals: The other professionals with whom a nanny may work in
partnership includes doctors and educators. Nannies share all the information of child to
doctors and educators regarding any health illness.
1.2 Barriers to partnership working and ways to overcome them
There are various barriers that a nanny may face while working in partnership with family,
parents, friends of family and other professionals. These barriers includes:
Time constraints: Sometimes, a nanny may not work extra hours due to her personal
reasons. This creates clashes with parents that may act as a barrier in partnership working. In
order to overcome this, parents and family must requires to understand that sometimes it may not
be possible to nanny to work for extra hours (Flaskerud, 2014).
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Ineffective communication: this is the another barrier to partnership working as
ineffective communication restricts proper sharing of information between nanny and parents.
For overcoming this issue, it is necessary to ensure that good relations is maintain between them
so that they both enable to interact with each other effectively.
Language barrier: If English is not the first language, then it creates barriers in
understanding anything. To overcome this barrier, it is required to ensure that both parents and
nanny are familier to each other’s language.
1.3 Benefits of partnership working
 Child/children: Partnership working with children help in providing them with
appropriate care and understanding what they want to say (Gathorne-Hardy, 2014).
 Parents/Carers: Working in partnership with parents helps in geeting appropriate
information of child to provide them with best possible care.
 Extended family members and friends of family: Partnership with them help in ensuring
that children is getting best care and upbringing. Nanny: Partnership of parents and other members in with nanny helps in providing child
with appropriate environment to grow and develop.
TASK 2
2.1 Roles of Nanny
 Live in nanny: It is referred as a child care giver who lives in an individual's home. Live
in nanny work for 10 to 12 hours birthday along with two nights babysitting. The primary
role of live in nanny is care of children. They are the sole charge of children and doing all
their works including washing, keeping their room tidy, cooking for children as well as
perform all the nursery duties.
 Live out nanny: Live out nanny is an individual who specialises in rendering child care
for family, instead of living in individual's home as live in nanny, death comes to care for
child during set hours in the week. Live out nanny administer intellectual, social and
emotional support to children. The role of live out nanny involves all aspects of caring for
children including companionship, meals, play, activities and clothing needs (Haider-
Markel and Joslyn, 2018). Their household responsibilities are associated with care of
children.
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 Shared care nanny: The nanny who is engaged in providing children care services to two
families simultaneously is termed as shared care nanny. Take care of both children in
home of 1 of the family. Typical nanny duties are carried out by a shade nanny, but the
duties associated with nursery will be limited to the family where she is based. Nanny's
roles includes bathing and dressing, developing safe environment for children, arranging
play dates and outings etc.
2.2 Skills, behaviours and attributes required in role of Nanny
Skills: The skills required to fulfil role of a nanny includes strong verbal communication,
patience, creativity, cooking and nutrition, first aid, problem solving, household duties. All these
skills required to have in a nanny to provide care to a child appropriately. A nanny has to spend
many hours with children which requires them to have patience to handle their behaviour and
mood swings without losing her temper. Apart from this, for making and keeping the kids happy,
a nanny required to have creativity to plan games and outing (Hoek, 2015).
Attributes: Some of the attributes that a nanny must have to fulfill the roles and
responsibilities of a nanny appropriately includes proactive, self motivated, trustworthy etc.
When it comes to safety, discipline and mitigating the needs of children, nannies should be
proactive instead of reactive. Moreover, As the parents rely on nanny to mitigate the terms of
their work relationship, nannies must be trustworthy to perform their job well and give
outstanding care.
Behaviours: A nanny required to have some behaviours when working with children.
Humble and kind behaviour of a nanny help in teaching children regarding kindness and charity
and they learn politeness and humility from such behaviour of a nanny. Moreover, a nanny must
be confident to provide children with safe and secure environment.
2.3 Daily care responsibilities of nanny for children
0 - 1 years of age group: The daily care responsibilities of a nanny for a newborn children
includes their feeding, diapering, nap times, preparing bottles, bathing and dressing children,
caring for child when they are sick, giving them medicines on time and ensure their general
hygiene (Le Grand and New, 2015).
Mixed age group: The duties of a nanny for mixed age group children includes cooking
for children, organising their playdates, assisting with homework, doing their laundry, making
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their bed, bathing and dressing them, help them with language acquisition, teaching them letters,
colours and numbers, providing developmentally suitable educational games, helping them with
general hygiene etc.
2.4 Advantages and challenges to role of nanny
Advantages:
 The advantage of working in a role of a nanny is that the profession requires no degree
and higher education. Nannies can get job by having only the skills of giving appropriate
care to child.
 The another advantage is that they get guaranteed pay and overtime along with paid time
off and holidays (Low and Goh, 2015).
Disadvantages:
 The job of nanny is a mentally and physically a challenging job. Dealing with toddlers
and babies is a big challenge for nannies as it requires love, dedication and tonnes of
patience.
 The another challenge that a nanny may face includes putting own free time or personal
life before the needs of parents. Saying no to extra work time or extra baby setting is very
challenging.
TASK 3
3.1 Role of nanny agency
The role of nanny agency is to help placing good child care providers with families. Nanny
agency plays effective role in registration of nannies. Using in agency provides biggest assurance
to parents has it can offer them with certain safety features like checking the nanny thoroughly
before they enable to register. Approaching nanny agency for hiring a nanny according to the
need of client. The job is allocated to the nannies according to their abilities along with
considerering needs of clients (Ng, 2015). For registration with any agency, nannies are required
to sign the contract that includes information about starting date, job responsibilities, work site
address, paid time off, compensation etc.In managing and maintaining relationships between
client and nanny, nanny agency plays crucial role. It can benefit to both nannies and family and
makes the process run effortlessly and smoothly.
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3.2 Ofsted registration process and implications
The ofsted regulatory process includes publication of gradings and periodic inspection
covering the service quality. Inspectors have enforcement powers for renderers who do not
compliance with standards like early years foundation phase statutory framework. In the process
of inspection, gradings are assigned as a part of constant cycle of inspection. The visit frequency
is identified by service grading in question. The highest rating providers will visited less
frequently and those with poor ratings will be inspected frequently. In between the visits, the
providers are monitored by inspectors by collecting information like complaints and notifications
(Souralová, 2014). Providers are encouraged by inspectors to self evaluate their services and
inform regarding any issues.
 The nanny: The ofstead regulatory process helps nannies to work according to the set
guidelines and standards.
 The family: The process helps in ensuring effective and quality care services to child and
helps in safeguarding children.
TASK 4
4.1 Action plan including steps to take for planning to become nanny
Action plan:
Steps Actions to be taken
Gain child care experience For gaining experience of child care, nanny will become
an assistant at any nearby child care center.
Emphasize on trainings and
certifications
For getting specialized training and certifications, nanny
will consider infant care classes, special needs care and
water-safety education.
Considering an early childhood
education degree
For boosting the chances of being hired, nanny will take
early childkood education classes to get degree.
Know the basics To get knowledge about basics of profession, nanny will
take help of books and blogs.
Familiarize with an average rates in
area
For getting familier with average pay rates, nanny will do
market analysis and make use of Cost of Child Care tool.
Development of an online profile An online profile will be develop by nanny which includes
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and applying informations like philosophies as nanny, values etc.
4.2 Skill gaps and ways to mitigate these
Currently, my problem solving skills are less effective which is very much needed for me
as a nanny as it enable me to determine complicated issues as well as finding out necessary
solutions. In order to improve my problem solving skills, I will take participate in brainstorming
activities, solve logic puzzles, participate in yoga and use mind map to assist visualise the
problem (Souralová, 2014). Apart from this, I also need to work on my collaboration skills as for
playing the role of a nanny successfully, I need to learn to collaborate with parents and other
members and be a team player. For improving my collaboration skills, I will try to develop trust
through my actions. I will also foster constant communication to improve my collaboration
skills.
4.3 Sources of support for planning to become a nanny
PACEY is one of the source can offer a nanny with support and guidance. It provides
various advantages to a nanny in terms of providing range of offers associated with free
networking, advice and support from online community. Apart from this, jopining a professional
organisation will also provides support to nanny as such organisations have wide array of
resources are available that can assist to advance the carrer of nanny. Both these sources are
helpful and useful as these supports in planning to become a nanny (Flaskerud, 2014).
CONCLUSION
As per the above mentioned report, it has been concluded that nanny plays a very crucial
role in providing effective care to the children. Working in partnership with parents, family
members, friends of family and other professionals will help in ensuring effective care to a
children.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Burke, J.S., 2015. The Nanny Time Bomb: Navigating the Crisis in Child Care: Navigating the
Crisis in Child Care. ABC-CLIO.
Flaskerud, J.H., 2014. The Nanny State, free will, and public health. Issues in mental health
nursing, 35(1), pp.69-72.
Gathorne-Hardy, J., 2014. The rise and fall of the British nanny. Faber & Faber.
Haider-Markel, D.P. and Joslyn, M.R., 2018. “Nanny State” Politics: Causal Attributions About
Obesity and Support for Regulation. American Politics Research, 46(2), pp.199-216.
Hoek, J., 2015. Informed choice and the nanny state: learning from the tobacco industry. Public
Health, 129(8), pp.1038-1045.
Le Grand, J. and New, B., 2015. Government paternalism: nanny state or helpful friend?.
Princeton University Press.
Low, S.S. and Goh, E.C., 2015. Granny as Nanny: Positive Outcomes for Grandparents
providing Childcare for Dual-Income Families. Fact or Myth?. Journal of
Intergenerational Relationships, 13(4), pp.302-319.
Ng, I.Y., 2015. Being Poor In A Rich" Nanny State": Developments In Singapore Social
Welfare. The Singapore Economic Review, 60(03), p.1550038.
Souralová, A., 2014. THE CZECH NANNY AS A “DOOR TO THE MAJORITY” FOR
CHILDREN OF VIETNAMESE IMMIGRANTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC. Studia
Migracyjne-Przeglad Polonijny, 3(40), pp.171-186.
Souralová, A., 2014. Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic: Hiring a Czech nanny as a
post-migratory family settlement strategy. HAHN, Sylvia a Stan NADEL. Asian Migrants
in Europe. Transcultural Connections (Transkulturelle Perspektiven). Göttingen: V&R
Unipress, pp.95-112.
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