If you are EU national or permanent UK resident above 22 years-old and available in the next few weeks, you may want to apply !
We are a dynamic French family with 1 boy (10 year old) and 2 girls (9 years old and 5.5 years old ) who have been living in London for 6 years. We speak mostly French at home but our environment (neighborhood, community, friends, school, activities etc) is 100% Anglophone.
We have been hosting au pairs for 4 years. These experiences have been great and that is why we are looking for a young girl or boy to help us and live with us.
Nicolas (Dad) is a senior executive in a pharmaceutical company and Anne (Mom) is a freelance marketing and training consultant
We are looking for someone who will fit in easily within our family. She / he must be honest and independent. The children have lots of activities (violin, football, gymnastics), so it is very important to be very well organized and able to plan independently.
Our au pair is part of the family during her / his stay (as Elise says we are now 6 in the family!) Of course we also like to have moments in couple or as a family and in the same spirit we are always respectful of the privacy of our au pair.
We need someone who helps the parents manage their busy lives by taking care of a lot of children-related logistics.
- Our au pair takes care of the children from Monday to Friday 7:30 - 9:00 in the morning and 15:00 - 19:30 hours in the evening, including the homework, the bath, mild tidying of their rooms and preparation of the evening meal.
- prepartion of kid's school bags, PE bags, make them do their homework, plan for snacks when required.
- We typically need 1 evening babysitting per week, (weekdays or weekends), or rarely a few hours on a Saturday/Sunday.
- Weekends are usually free. There will be a couple of weekends in the year when the au pair will keep the children without us, from Friday evening to Sunday night.
- There is no cleaning or ironing but we like to keep the house tidy and clean and our au pair helps us in this in the course of daily activities (vacuuming after meals, cleaning of chairs and table, storage of dishes, etc.).
- We agree on the timing of holidays, usually of course when children are themselves on vacation (ie every 6 weeks or so)
Please contact us if you are interested and leave your phone number so we can call you. Minimum stay is 1 year, ideally it's a plus if you can potentially stay longer
The salary will depend on experience and of course it takes into account that this is a live-in position; expected to be £120 per week.