Claire

My Summary

My Experience

I have 3 children aged 14, 17 and 20 and have 24 years experience teaching and mentoring children aged 6 to 23. Additionally I have been a foster carer to lots of children including those with SEN. More recently I have enjoyed being an emergency nanny for Freckles and working with a family with a little boy aged two and being an Ofsted registered child minding assistant for a child minder in Corsham. In this role I had the opportunity to support her to care for 8 children with ages ranging from 9 months to 4 years through the day and older children before and after school. I enjoyed working with all of the children and enjoyed creating 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, baking cakes and craft / messy play. I was also involved in dropping off and picking up children of school age, planning activities and preparing lunches and keeping the play rooms tidy.

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 4. 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 full time, Monday to Saturday.

My Fees

• Babysitting from £10.00 per hour
• Nannying from £12.00 per hour (gross)

Please contact me to discuss fees.