infant child care field?
I am interested in working and taking care of infants. I worked in the front office of an elementary school and now i work at Carter’s a baby clothing store. what i really want is to be able to play and take care of babies. I seem to find my only options are working at a daycare(and being specific about being in the infant room) or being nanny. the only problem about being a nanny is i can’t just ask every woman with a baby "can i baby sit your child?"
I was hoping someone had more ideas about careers that involve infant care.
This might be dumb to comment but there should be like a nanny-temp-agency. or something. thanks for any help you can give.
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i am a nanny and i love it, a very satisfying job. there are agencies and web pages to get you jobs for both a nursery and being a nanny.
1. you need qualifications (nvq 3 or b-tech level 3 or above) you working in the front office at a elementary school wont have give you the right experience to do this job, but its something. i realized now you said elementary school so you must be American (the qualifications i said are English ones don’t know what you would need for America sorry) but i do have American web pages to be a nanny and not all family’s ask for qualifications
nanny pages:
greataupair.com
http://www.au-pair-world.co.uk/
http://www.canguroencasa.com/
http://www.nanny-agency.com/UK-Nannies.cfm
http://www.nanniesinc.com/
you put your profile on here and the parents find you. i had great luck through http://www.canguroencasa.com/ they do lots of countries including America
you should look on google type in "nanny agency’s Chicago" or where ever you are and it should bring up plenty. you can also find out what qualifications you need (if you want to work in a nursery)
i hope this helps you. it really is a great career i love it!
Before you begin a job in the field of child care you need to first take a CPR course and first aid. These are usually offered at the Red cross offices. After you do these classes you can try to work in your church day care as a volunteer on Sunday mornings. This way you have some experience with babies. You can contract the child services office about the rules of your state about how many children you can keep in your home. After you are all set then run and ad in the paper. You can also take care of friends kids so you have references to give other people who might need your services.