Nanny's Guide In Zürich

05/10/2020

Dear Nannies, do you know what is a qualified nanny?
- It’s a person who has training and enjoys to take care of CHILDREN.

Can I be a nanny without training?
- No. You can get a job to work for a family and do WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO DO, but no any responsible nanny starts a job without adequate training to care for children.
For example when you have experience in certain children ages and you get a job to take care of newborns, you absolutely NEED an update or basic newborn care training to do a good job.

I need a job and I was recommended to work as a nanny, What training I need to start a job as nanny?
- You need a basic childcare course, preferably in your own native language, if you don’t have childcare schools or you can’t find online courses in your language but you have very good knowledge of English, French, or German, then I recommend you to check online childcare courses in those universal languages, in the market there’s a huge amount of good options and specially due to Covid the online education became so well recognized!
For example my language is Portuguese, so I recommend all portuguese planning to become nannies...
https://www.nannyportugal.com/nanny-portugal-training-school/

I’m planning to move to Switzerland, Which kinds of training I need to do to be considered for Nanny positions in Zurich, the German part?
- You will need first of all to learn or get familiar with German language, it’s mandatory.
You have schools that you will need to pay https://hallodeutschschule.ch/deutschkurs/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyuqsh_Sc7AIVSemyCh1H7gBdEAAYASAAEgImY_D_BwE
And you have a public school to learn German for FREE right in the center of Zurich
https://www.bildung-fuer-alle.ch/eintrag/englisch

You will need a pediatric course, to guarantee you will know how to care of small injuries or detect illness symptoms on children and how to first aid, you will learn safety rules as well .
In German
https://www.samariter.ch/de/notfaelle-bei-kleinkindern

And you can start also with a childcare course in the Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz, they have courses in German and English, like the Babysitter one it’s a very good choice to start
https://www.srk-zuerich.ch/kurse-und-lehrgaenge-in-der-kinderbetreuung.

I have already basic knowledge of German, the SRK Babysitter course, the pediatric course and I found a nanny job, I just love it, I enjoy to work with children...what other courses can I do to learn and grow more as professional nanny in the childcare industry?
- You can take pedagogy courses like Montessori Assistant courses that are recognized in Zurich, or teacher’s assistant courses, or childcare psychology courses...
http://en.formation-montessori.ch/training-courses/ami-assistant-course-3-6/

Do I need a university degree to work as a Nanny?
- No. There are many persons with childcare degree and working as nannies because they choose to work as nannies. Usually they are required when children are homeschooled and families need a Nanny with teacher degree, who knows what she is doing.

AMI Montessori ASSISTANT’s course (3-6 years old) for the “Children’s house” in English and French (consecutive translation) at IFMM (Geneva canton). 2 x 1 week, 18-22 February and 23-27 March 2020. Price : CHF 1’250.- (training CHF 1’100.-, registration CHF 150.-) : Training completed. ...

12/03/2020

For Families in Zurich❗️
Nanny Dvora Ben-Haim owner of SOS-Nanny, created a list of childcare options in case families urgently need private Nanny services.

This is her volunteer work, so if your business name is in this list and you don’t want it, or your business name is not on this list but you wish it would be, please private message 🙌

This list was organized using public links and/or in case of individuals their permission was given to share their private contacts.
If you need this list as a file document please ask us in comments ✍️

Emergency Nanny Solutions 👇

Independent emergency nannies:
KIDS AT HOME - Julia A. Lieber 076 710 13 02 (specially kids with handicap)
MARY POPPINS AGENCY with independent nannies who also do occasional babysitting
https://www.agenturmarypoppins.ch/leistungen/
NOTFALLTANTA https://notfallnanny.jimdofree.com - Rabaa Cajochen with a whole team of
nannies
SOS-Nanny www.SOS-Nanny.services - Dvora Ben-Haim

Agencies with emergency nannies:
(Social contributions paid by the agency through the wage parents pay for the nanny)

CARE4KIDS https://www.care4kids.ch/en/for-families/one-time-or-spontaneous-childcare/
PROFAWO kids&co https://www.kidsco.ch/en/nannies-emergency-nannies
MAMIEXPRESS https://mamiexpress.ch/en/service/childcare/

Paying according family year taxes:
SRK (SWISS RED CROSS) https://www.srk-zuerich.ch/damit-im-notfall-die-kinder-betreut-sind

Parents are responsible to pay social contributions
FAMILIENSERVICE http://www.familienservice.ch/en/childcare-assistance.html
LAMPENTASCHE https://lampentasche.ch/en/here-you-will-find-the-right-nanny/
DURAN ACTS https://duranacts.ch
ROCKMYBABY https://www.rockmybaby.ch/pages/services-babysitting
ZIPFELZAPFEL https://zipfelzapf.ch/angebot

Normal babysitters, so it is not clear how fast they can be at your home:
Aleydis https://www.aleydis.ch/english (temporary nannies for more than one day)
Babysits https://www.babysits.ch/ (babysitters)
Babysitting24 https://babysitting24.ch/en (babysitters)
Care.com https://www.care.com/de-ch/ (there is a possibility to search for babysitters and nannies that have time right now)
Liliput https://www.liliput.ch/babysitter (babysitters)
LUNA nannies http://www.lunanannies.ch (they offer babysitting, not sure if also in an emergency)

THE NANNY https://www.thenanny.ch/l%C3%B6sungen/tempor%C3%A4r-nanny/ (for more than one day)
Topnanny https://topnanny.ch/de/kandidaten/babysitter (babysitters)
Liliput https://www.liliput.ch/babysitter (babysitters)
Apps:
Kidsitt https://www.kidsitt.com (babysitters, social contributions must be paid by the parents)
Villagekids http://www.villagekidsapp.com/for-parents/ (babysitters, it is not clear who pays the social contributions)

12/03/2020

Next Saturday, join us for a Facebook life with Lisa Dozier a professional nanny with more than twenty seven years in-home childcare experience, from Los Angeles CA. She will be talking about The Importance of Attending Professional Development Events.

Corona virus is changing our lives in such a radical way, like putting limits for us to travel and even be with other persons in public and private! Is there professional online events being prepared for nannies? And you would like to know about it?

Then join our private Facebook “International Nanny Community in Zürich” administrated by Ana Felline HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1557202821252493/

When and at what time?
Tune in Saturday, 14th, @ 7:00pm in Zurich (GMT +1), which is 11:00am Pacific / 13:00am in CT / 14:00pm ET in America.

See you Saturday! 🤗

11/03/2020

Nannies, I had a fellow nanny messaging me this week very sad saying that she is not long in Switzerland and that her nanny family asked her to drive the children in their car regularly, then one day the police asked her to stop and she was fined because she still had the driving license from her origin country, when she was supposed to change it to a Swiss one within one year after arrival in Switzerland.

She was fined 300 Swiss Francs and had to pay the costs for the new Swiss driving license, she was asking the family to share the expenses as they didn’t told her that she had to change her driving license and they refused. What did I thought about this?

I have a few things in my mind about this kind of situations that I would like to share with you all...when we come to a new country like Switzerland we come thinking that the families we are working for will tell us all the information, will guide us in all difficulties, will take care of everything, right? And we get very disappointed when this doesn’t happen probably because in our own countries we are used to communicate much more and to every situation we have a all pack of advises that sometimes even the person listening gets overwhelmed with so much information right? 😊

Well, here it’s different. The Swiss are used to be self efficient since they are children, to know where to get information and are used that for everything there are rules that you as an adult are fully responsible for your own actions and you are supposed to know and read and comply with. Many times the Swiss or who is here for many years do not have any idea that we don’t know anything from anything. And they get very surprised when we say, well you should let me know, because for them WE should search for information before committing with anything.

So, what to do when you come to Switzerland to work as a nanny, housekeeper, or Au Pair, or any other domestic work, and when it means that you arrive and go straight to live in the family home and you have not much access to outside contact with other persons, and/or you just have the family to give you first informations....

• Search online information for newcomers to Zurich, or Switzerland;

• Join Facebook if you still don’t have it, and ask to join private Nanny groups, choose the ones that administrators are really super active and available for an emergency communication;

• Try to meet other nannies, preferably the ones who are here for many years, so you can share your concerns and share experiences;

• Engage in learning German as soon as possible if you are in the german part of Switzerland;

• Try to understand the Swiss culture and how they are organized, everything is connected, since education in schools, to the involvement in the town you are living, to public transportation, to driving and parking in the center, to extra activities from the children, to the traditional Swiss festivities, to the care for nature and animals, and how they love order and organization and rules and people to follow and appreciate them.

If any of you has more to say to this, please join our private Facebook “International Nanny Community in Zürich” administrated by Ana Felline HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1557202821252493/

See you in the International Nanny Community in Zürich group! 😊

26/02/2020

This Saturday, join us for a Facebook life with Glenda Propst, a Career nanny for 31 years, Founding board member of the INA, One of three Founders of NAN - first US nanny organization run by nannies for nannies, INA Nanny Of The Year (NOTY) in 1991, with a Meritorious service award in 2016, and owner of Nanny Transitions. She will be talking about how do you know your job is ending, leaving the family gracefully and preparing the children.

When and at what time?
Tune in Saturday, 29th, @ 6:00pm in Zurich (GMT +2), which is 10:00am Pacific / 11:00am in CT / 13:00pm Eastern in North America.

This workshop is being hosted by Ana Felline and the International Nanny Community in Zürich, so in order to watch the workshop, you’ll need to join that private Facebook group HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1557202821252493/

See you Saturday in the International Nanny Community in Zürich group! 😊

01/02/2020

Getting to know Szasa Schaefer and Karin Kälin, two exceptional Swiss nannies from Zürich, and their work to elevate Nanny Profession 👇
https://nanny.org/ina-nannies-in-zurich/

31/01/2020

Hello everyone, this online workshop „The Science of Surviving a Toddler Tantrum“ is just a few days away and here are the details on how you can join for this event! 😊

This workshop is being hosted by Ana Felline and the International Nanny Community in Zürich, so in order to watch the workshop, you’ll need to join that private Facebook group HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1557202821252493/

On Wednesday, at 10.30am CET just go to the group and wait for the Live workshop to start – that’s it! 😊

And, if you have any specific questions that you'd like the Family Therapist and Parent Coach Cornelia Dahinten, from Zürich, to answer in the workshop, please post them after you join the private group in the comments to this message, there, and we’ll make sure we cover them during the session! 😊

See you on Wednesday in the International Nanny Community in Zürich group! 😊

Cornelia’s website:
www.corneliadahinten.com

23/01/2020

Sharing a SRF TV reportage about the present state of Nanny work in Switzerland and the First Nanny Congress.
With English subtitles

Credits on SRF TV

04/12/2019

A live-in nanny who went to Australia with the promise of a new life was allegedly paid just $2.30 an hour for more than 100 hours labour each week.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is taking action in the Federal Court to get the 26-year-old her rightful pay, and wants the wealthy couple who hired her punished.

Nannies,
when you apply to overseas or other country nanny positions, please always check how it is to live, work and the nanny profession situation before you travel, even before you compromise, even if your situation in your own country is difficult, nothing is worst than you put yourself in a modern slave situation or in a situation that you have no return.

Before travel,
be sure you have a ticket with return in case things don’t turn out to be as you expected.
Follow your instincts if you start to be asked to do things that you did not agree in a hostile way.
You HAVE the right to change your mind if the work is not what you expected.
ALWAYS involve a member of your family to keep in contact with you and if needed travel to rescue you!
Do not isolate yourself from having contact with nanny communities when you settle in the country you are working. If possible make friend with a local nanny or nannies.

Be safe and please do NOT become another MODERN SLAVE! Inform yourself and share in all social media about the dangers of the modern world!

A GOOD family who needs you as a live in, takes care that you socialize with other nannies, that you have a healthy life with self care, healthy food and that you make sport regularly, motivates you to educate yourself with the local language and culture, motivates you to take childcare trainings for the benefit of their own children, that you have enough rest and that you only do the nanny related duties, that you have a comfortable and spacious place for yourself and respects your privacy!

What else would you advise? Write in comments. 👇

25/10/2019

Please join us on Sun Oct 27th for a Facebook Live in the “International Nanny Community in Zürich” private group!
Link for the group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1557202821252493/?ref=share
and request to join!

We will be discussing the many types of roles for professional caregivers who wish to support families during pregnancy, childbirth, the postnatal/postpartum and neonatal period, and early infancy. There are so many options and programs and certifications available - which one might be a good fit for you?

You may send in questions in the comment section below about maternity and/or postpartum caregiving roles in advance, and you may also post questions during the FB live.

Tune in Sunday 27 October @ 7:30pm in Zurich (GMT +2), which is
10:30am Pacific/1:30pm Eastern in North America.

27/09/2019

Join “International Nanny Community in Zürich” to celebrate with us 🥰