Claire

My Summary

My Experience

I have 3 children aged 19, 22 and 24 and have 24 years experience teaching and mentoring children with SEN / EBD / SEMH aged 6 to 18. Additionally I have been a foster carer to lots of children including those with SEN.

I have been a professional nanny for 6 years and have had the pleasure of working with several families in and around Melksham, Trowbridge, Chippenham, Corsham and Calne. I am registered as an emergency nanny for Freckles and have previously been an Ofsted registered child minding assistant for a child minder in Corsham. In these roles I have worked with babies and children aged 6 months to 13 years. I enjoy working with children and like to create learning opportunities through play, singing nursery rhymes and songs, walking in the woods and visiting National Trust properties, attending local play groups and soft play centers and baking cakes and craft / messy play. I also have experience of dropping off and picking up children of school age, planning activities and preparing lunches and keeping the play rooms tidy. Additionally I have experience of co parenting and offer baby sitting services.

I enjoy working with children and value the importance of family and would therefore relish the opportunity to support you in caring for your children and enabling them to have lots of fun, develop their interests and learn about the world around them. I am an energetic person and not only love the outdoors but have experience of being an outdoor learning practitioner where I have taught children horticulture, conservation and woodland survival skills such as building dens. I enjoy cooking and baking with children and regularly do so with my children and my nephews, the youngest being 8. In my role as a support worker in a residential home for Looked After Children I have also gained intentional and therapeutic parenting skills as well as qualifications in keeping children safe online, child accident prevention, safeguarding children, how to communicate effectively with children and emergency first aid at work including paediatric protocols. I feel that the blend of my personal and professional experience and my fun outgoing personality would be a great mix when spending time with your children.

My Qualifications

BSC Sociology and Social Sciences Degree

Post Graduate Certificate in Education PGCEA

Safe Care and Safeguarding Children and Young people Level 2 Safeguarding Training and CSE Jacquie Spragg 1st July 2019

How to communicate Effectively – Children’s Social Care ( Standards 4.4.1, 4.2,4.3 and 4.4) – Jacquie Spragg 11th October 2018

Emergency First Aid including paediatric protocols at work Hamdon First Aid 9th October 2019

Team Teach – Mr Toogood Team Teach – 7th September 2018

Keeping children safe online – NSPCC – 30th September 2018

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) - High Speed Training 28th September 2018

Risk Assessment – High Speed Training – 26th September 2018

Equality and Diversity training – High Speed Training – 25th September 2018

Child Accident Prevention – Safeguarding e – Academy – 24th September 2018

Awareness of child abuse and neglect – Safeguarding e- Academy – 24th September 2018

Safeguarding – Hidden Harm - Safeguarding e- Academy – 24th September 2018

Keep them safe- Protecting children from Child Sexual exploitation - Safeguarding e- Academy – 24th September 2018

Physical Intervention training – Wessex College – 26th September 2018

The use of discipline and control measures – Wessex College – 26th September 2018

My Availability

I am available to work with a new family from the 7th July 2025.

My Fees

• Babysitting from £14.00 per hour
• Nannying from £16.50 per hour (gross)

Please contact me to discuss fees.