Hollie
Nanny in Bristol (also available for babysitting)
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Female Member since Jan 2016 Last Updated Sep 2024 Last Login 28 Oct 2024
My Summary
About Me
Hi, I am Hollie. A 35 year old, fully qualified Ofsted registered nanny, with over 10+ years experience. Looking to join a family in Bristol/Somerset area.
I have chosen a career in Childcare because I have a passion when communicating and interacting with children both hearing and deaf.
I am a responsible, emotionally mature and well-mannered nanny, with a great deal of commitment and enthusiasm when promoting a child’s physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. I use kind and gentle positive reinforcement to help maximise a child’s holistic development. I am a polite, confident child carer who is able to work under pressure with a great level of experience in doing so.
I see great importance in developing a close relationship with both child(ren) and families to ensure continuity of care.
My Experience
I usually work as a nanny long term, with the potential to offer short term care, as well as adhoc and occasional evening childcare.
I offer night nannying to help with sleep training, parents wanting some undisturbed sleep or, to help care for child(ren) when unwell.
I am regularly booked for weddings and events where childcare is needed.
I also offer these services at my own home, typically for nurses or other professions that work long night shifts or for parents wanting to attend events, weekends away or holidays.
I have experience in three Nursery settings, as well as a teaching assistant role in a Nursery and Primary School for Deaf Children. I have cared for babies and young children up to age of 14 and find all ages to be rewarding and enjoyable to care for.
My DBS is up to date and i am apart of the Disclosure and Barring Service Update Service, which allows you to see my certificate on the government website.
I am paediatric first aid trained with a full, clean UK driving license.
When working long term for families I ask that my families contribute 5% of my monthly wages, in to my pensions scheme.
I also charge an additional £1.50ph when caring for additional siblings.
Nanny shares with other households can be discussed between parties.
Over night and weekend childcare to be discussed between us.
I commute for work in and around Bristol & Somerset.
My Qualifications
-CACHE Level 3 Award Certificate and Diploma in Childcare and Education SGS College Bristol, 2014-2015
-British Sign Language level 1 and 2
City of Bristol College, 2013-2014 / 2014-2015
-British Sign Language level 3, U.W,E Bristol, 2015 – 2016
My Availability
I am also available for evening/weekend childcare. Events, weddings and hotels and so on. Over night childcare at the family home, as well as providing childcare from my own home.
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| Last Updated: 24/09/2024 | |||||||
My Fees
- Nannying from £20.00 per hour (gross)
- Babysitting from £18.00 per hour
When booked I charge a minimum of 4 hours.
My Documents
- Ofsted Certificate (added 28/11/2023)
- First Aid Certificate (added 30/05/2023)
- Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination (added 17/04/2023)
- Exam Certificate: Childcare.co.uk (added 04/11/2022)
- DBS Check (added 27/08/2022)
- Childminding Agency Certificate (added 20/04/2020)
- First Aid Certificate: Pediatric first aid (added 16/12/2019)
- First Aid Certificate: Paediatric first aid (added 29/10/2017)
Reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Hollie. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk users and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
Where to begin, Hollie was exactly as she described herself and more. Hollie was an absolute dream Nanny for us. Hollie looked after our two small boys aged 18 months and 3 years for 6 weeks, 2 day a week over the summer. The boys adored Hollie and felt safe with her. Hollie was always on time, professional, kind and positive. She would always go the extra mile too from working late to help us put, bathing the children and getting them ready for bed. Hollie even helped out around the house and would make the boys healthy lunch boxes each morning.
We felt completely at ease with her. Hollie educated the children with kindness, manners and was firm but fare (which is essential with two brothers!) and extremely patient.
Hollie would take the boys out for the whole day across Bristol, it was always a fun new adventure, from parks, softplay, splash parks, playgroups, aquariums to museums. Hollie would even send us photos and messages throughout the day.
We would highly recommend Hollie and only hope and pray she is available for us again next summer. Thank you Hollie xx
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Hollie has been wonderful with our son, looking after him from the age of 18 months to almost 3 (and she's still with us now). Hollie is always a kind and calming presence, but is firm when needed with our boundary-pushing toddler! We really trust Hollie and it's clear how much our little boy loves his time with her too. They do lots of activities out and about, as well as craft, baking and play. He also loves when Meadow comes along in the school holidays! All in all, we highly recommend Hollie.
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Hollie returned to our family to look after our second daughter in late 2019.
Hollie previously looked after our older daughter and she returned to us like she had never been away.
My daughter took to hollie immediately and didn’t skip a beat. Hollie immediately saw how different my children were and adapted her whole approach to suit the second child. There was no assumption that one approach suits all. Hollie was a bit magic immediately identifying and adapting to suit my daughter. However she also kept certain “traditions” for both children, like smelling the herb bushes on the way to the park, so that the sisters could talk about “what hollie did”.
We had the misfortune of the first lockdown when hollie couldn’t come to us, but afterwards when she could come again she started back with no trouble (for her or my daughter) literally a dream transition.
She truly cares for children and their families and had this perfect balance of being fully part of the family without being over bearing or over keen, she isn’t an intimidating “know it all” about child care, she is just a perfect blend of everything that the children and parents need - a good friend and guider to the parents and carer and teacher to the children.
We really miss hollie, as do my daughters. When we haven’t seen hollie for a while my girls will happily take off where they left off with hollie, like they have never been apart - a real bond that I never thought possible when my journey into finding a nanny started.
No review of hollie is complete without a review of meadow…her wonderful daughter. She is perfection - kind, clever, well mannered, good humoured and she is so calm and confident when she meets the children who hollie cares for. I have known meadow since she was 4 and is now an awesome 11 year old. We hadn’t seen meadow for 2 years during lockdown, but she recognised us from across the farm we were visiting and her joy and happiness shone across - she was so pleased to see my girls and remembered everything about them - and us! All of hollie’s wonderful life values shining through her daughter!
I HATED the thought of someone else (other than family and close friends) having charge of my daughters when I went back to work, but we were so lucky to meet Hollie and I feel Hollie really played a massive key part in making my daughters who they are today .
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Hollie joined our family in April 2019 when our son was coming up to two years old, and she's been with us ever since, taking our new baby under her care from the age of five months. I'm devastated to be writing this, really, because I don't ever want her to leave us - but we are leaving Bristol! If we could take her with us we would!
Hollie is great for all of us, not just the kids. She's always calm and gentle, no matter what, and is so incredibly kind to our kids. She uses positive reinforcement and discipline and goes out of her way to make our children feel listened to, loved and understood. We have learned so much from her.
Our four year old son is VERY busy and pushes boundaries all the time but Hollie has never struggled to manage him. She is always thinking up fun games and role plays and making him laugh, and she takes him out on legendary days in green spaces and around the city.
Hollie's daughter has also been a wonderful gift. Our son adores her and it's testament to Hollie's approach to parenting that her daughter is so kind, patient and tolerant of small kids.
I trust Hollie one million percent with my children and to that end have left her with them overnight on a couple of occasions with total confidence. In 2020 my partner went away for nearly five weeks with his work and Hollie moved in because our daughter was only tiny and I would have had a very difficult time on my own. Hollie was wonderful - she saved my bacon. The house was always tidy and she was so good at just taking a baby off me when things were getting too much, or whisking our son off for an outdoor adventure.
I can't recommend her highly enough and hope she will stay in my children's lives always.
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Hollie joined our family in October 2017 when our son was just over a year and half. Personally it was a very difficult time as our search for Hollie was prompted by family illness. Our son had only ever been cared for by immediate family and so the need to find someone that could become part of our family and care for him at home was our aim. I met a number of people before Hollie and no one felt quite right. When Hollie arrived she was full of warmth and our son was immediately at ease, a breath of fresh air.
Hollie has a unique way of being; she is wholeheartedly child led, playful, creative and caring. She delivers intuitive care with limit setting that is clear, safe and with explanation.
She remains connected throughout the day sending photos and updates which are priceless. She adapts to our busy household, rarely phased by comings and goings.
Hollie uses positive praise to introduce and encourage independence skills; toilet training, getting dressed, nose blowing and hand washing for example. We’ve seen such progress in our son as a result of such high quality 1:1 care. Plus the added bonus of Hollie’s daughter leading by example. Our son absolutely adores her and always looked forward to her joining at the end of the school day.
Hollie was with our family for two years however Hollie and her daughter remain very much part of our world. She is quite simply the best!
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