{"id":476,"date":"2018-01-09T15:35:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-255815-3383686.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2023-12-12T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T09:39:35","slug":"nanny-share-whats-on-the-nannys-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/blog\/finding-great-childcare\/nanny-share-whats-on-the-nannys-mind","title":{"rendered":"Making a nanny share work for your nanny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">What parents usually want from nanny share is a bit more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/blog\/effect-of-nanny-share-on-kids\">social interaction\u00a0<\/a>for their baby or toddler, and also to save on their nanny\u2019s costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"intro\">But what\u2019s the nanny\u2019s perspective likely to be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a good chance the nanny will think it\u2019s a brilliant idea. In a recent big survey of London nannies, almost half said they would be interested in working in a nanny share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s mostly because nannies get paid more per hour for working in a nanny share. \u00a0In fact, doing a nanny share is the single best form of career progression for nannies, dwarfing the impact of getting a qualification, or more experience, or registering with an agency or Ofsted. \u00a0Many nannies also prefer to have more than one child to look after at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not all about the wages, though. When considering whether to work in a nanny share, there are often three questions on nannies\u2019 minds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How will the holiday work?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a sole situation, nannies typically choose two weeks\u2019 holiday a year and parents choose the other two weeks. Some nannies are unsure how holiday works in a share situation and worry they might lose this ability to choose<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size:1.2em\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:1.2em\">The nanny isn\u2019t affected &#8211; she still gets to choose two weeks of her holiday. Each family chooses one other week, making four weeks in total.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Will I get muddled up with the taxes?\ufeff<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">\n    <ul>\n        <li>Nanny share tax administration is complicated. This isn\u2019t the nanny\u2019s problem really, but in practice parents often end up asking the nanny for advice, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/blog\/over-4s\/do-i-have-to-pay-tax-on-my-nanny\/\">nanny tax<\/a> can be a bit strange, and nannies often understand it better than parents. So nannies can sometimes worry they\u2019ll be landed with complicated tax questions.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ufeffSolution:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Assuming you\u2019re doing a Koru Kids share, reassure the nanny that we do all the tax admin and answer any questions from either the parents or the nanny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Will I get caught in the middle?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Some nannies worry they\u2019ll get caught in the middle of two sets of parents who want different things. If you\u2019ve ever had two bosses, you\u2019ll know how hard this can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Reassure the nanny you\u2019ll communicate well with the other family, and that you won\u2019t ask for contradictory things. \u00a0We find that the most successful nanny shares are the ones where the parents let the nanny get on with her job, using her professional judgement. If you let your nanny know this is your plan, you\u2019ll be in good shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, none of these things needs to be a big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a parent who already employs a nanny gets in touch with us about looking for a nanny share, we always want to speak to the nanny if at all possible. That\u2019s so that we can understand any preferences the nanny has, or any questions. This saves time in the long run and makes sure the nanny is 100% on board. Once the nanny\u2019s questions have been answered, and preferences taken into account in the search, they\u2019re usually highly enthusiastic about starting the share. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"end-CTA\">If you&#x27;d like to talk to us about finding a nanny share family to share your nanny you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/nanny-share\">get in touch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What parents usually want from nanny share is a bit more\u00a0social interaction\u00a0for their baby or toddler, and also to save on their nanny\u2019s costs.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s the nanny\u2019s perspective likely to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[154],"hashtags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28094,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/28094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korukids.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}