Rome, Italy. Au-Pair or Mother's Help needed for family with two children, Stella aged 6 and Francesco Maria aged 4. Religion: R/C. Dad is a chartered accountant, mum works freelance. Both children go to school full-time. The school is 5 minutes from the family's home by car. The family live in central Rome in a spacious apartment on 2 floors with a large terrace. On the first floor there are 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. One of the bedrooms is occupied by the housekeeper and the other bedroom would be your bedroom. On the 2nd floor is where the family's 3 bedrooms are, a living room, kitchen and 2 bathroom. The area is well served with amenities and is near public transport. Other help kept: a live-in housekeeper for all the housework and a live-out driver. Requirements: Swimmer/Non-Smoker/Experience/English Mother Tongue Use of internet is given. Minimum 6 month placement. Accommodation: private bedroom. Approx hrs of work: 8.00 am to 1.00 pm and 3.00 pm to 9.00 pm. Total daily hrs: 10. Time off: 1 1/2 days or weekends per week including evenings for the Mother's Help position. For the Au-Pair position the hours would be 6 hours per day. You are asked to babysit for a maximum of 5evenings a week if the parents go out for the Mother's Help position and a maximum of 2 evenings a week for the Au-pair position. They do not go out every evening. Duties: General child care duties. Get the children up in the mornings, wash and dress them, give them their breakfast. Get them ready for school. Sometimes take the children to school, however mum often takes them. Stay with the children after school. Do age appropriate activities with both children. Prepare the children's meals. Sometimes go and pick the children up from school. Give the children an afternoon snack, play with them, speak English to them, sing songs, teach them nursery rhymes, read them stories, etc. Give the children their supper. Bath the children and put them to bed. Make sure the children's spaces are always clean and tidy and if necessary supervise the housekeeper in her duties in relation to the children, for example making sure the children's laundry has been done, their bedrooms have been cleaned and so forth. Iron the children's clothes, keep their toys tidy and organized and all their belongings. The children may be attending an English or American school in the future and the family may be moving to London in a few years so the family want to start introducing English to the children. Mum is looking for a candidate who can take direction from the parents. Salary: € 150.00 p/w, net, for the Au-Pair position (around £135.00 at the current rate of exchange). € 225.00 p/w, net, negotiable for the Mother's Help position (around £200.00 p/w, at the current rate of exchange). Family's interests: Art, travel, sport. The family travel extensively and you would travel with them. When they do travel they stay in the best luxury hotels or in their second homes. In February they will be travelling for 2 weeks to Miami. They will also be spending a month in London. In the winter they often travel to the Abruzzo region, to the mountains where they have a home. In the summer they spend time on the beach between Sicily, Greece and Spain. Next summer they will be probably going to Ibiza. A lovely position in Rome, the capital of Italy with lots of travel opportunities. Rome is famous the world over as the "eternal city". There are lots of things to see and do in the city and surrounding areas. The Amalfi coast, Sorrento, the island of Capri, Vesuvius. Rome has a large international community and there are other nannies working in the area. |