Nanny jobs in ALHOS VEDROS Portugal:

Hello My name’s Alexandra Praias and I’m the mum of a 22 months old boy called Kyle. We live in Alhos Vedros, Portugal. Alhos Vedros is a quiet village that has all the main amenities: some shops, swimming pool, gyms, library, a very pretty and old church and some parks. We have bus and trains that can take you to Barreiro in 10- 15 minutes. Barreiro is a larger town and connects by boat (a 20 minute journey) to Lisbon, the capital. I’m still very young and active and right now I need someone reliable to help me with Kyle because I returned to full time education in order to finish my high school so I can enter to university hopefully next year. I study nights so I prefer to have someone in the comfort of my own home. It wouldn’t be nice to have to bring home a sleepy toddler every night, no matter the weather. You will stay with him every weeknight from around 6pm until I arrive, around 12am. You will have dinner with him so you need to be able to cook. He eats anything really, but I prefer if you keep it healthy. By 9pm he should be in bed. The rest of your work it will be just to keep an ear on him in case he wakes up. He usually never does. You can even go to sleep if you are sure you will awake up in case he needs you. During the day I will need you to stay with him for periods so I can study and you will be required to get up with him at around 8-9am certain mornings. This will all be quite flexible. At weekends I will probably need you too, so I can study and have a bit of “me” time. You will of course be given free time and every time Kyle is at the nursery (he will probably be thee for two days a week) or when he’s passing time with family you are free to do whatever you please. You will have a full free weekend at least once a month. So, basically you will have loads of free time but will be quite spread. I will be with Kyle most of the day during weekdays and most Sundays you will have free. Theses are all just guidelines as it can change slightly. I’m looking into starting a part time job sometime in future and then we would need to revise the schedule. You will be required to help with some light house chores like cooking, wash the dishes and so on. We have someone that comes once a week to do the deep cleaning. You will be provided with a monthly ticket, either bus or train, so you can travel around. If you want to learn English we have several schools around. I’ve been myself in one of them. We also have a dog and a cat that don’t live with us right now. I’m not sure how will this situation be in the future. There is a chance that the dog will come to live with us. Right now he lives in England with my partner and my parents. You will be able to use Internet in here when you are either not working or when Kyle is asleep. You will be provided with a mobile phone that will be charged with 10 twice monthly. Anymore you will have to charge it yourself. You will have your own bedroom and your meals will be with us. We can both cook. Hope you like Portuguese food! J We like to try every kind of food. I don’t have any problem with you inviting friends over once in a while once you start knowing people around, but all in good measure please. I’ve been myself an au pair several times in Holland. Some were very good experiences, others not so good. I hope my own experiences will help me in being a good family host for you. In the case that you stay with us for more than 9 months I will consider helping you paying your return fare. When I’m in holidays you will have more free time and I’m still not sure of what happens when we go in holiday. There is the possibility of you having to go with us to England and to Holland. Do you have a passport that allows you to enter in these two countries? I’m a quite flexible person and I hope you can be like an older sister to Kyle and a good friend to me. I’m honest and direct and need someone reliable. Someone that I feel I can trust my son and can make fun and safe activities with him. He’s a very busy toddler. He’s learning 3 languages: English, Portuguese and Dutch. I’m more than happy for you to speak with him in any other language on a regular basis. In order for him to manage all these languages he was taught sign language from a very early age. You will also have to learn these signs (nothing too complicated!! J ) but you will be surprised in how easy is to communicate with him. Due to these signs we also avoided the tantrums that come from the frustration of not being understood. I would appreciate that when you reply to my emails you do it on your own, without the help of any translation program. This is so I can see what are your English skills. I don’t need them to be perfect (mine is also far from perfect) but I need to know what I can count with. If you have any questions, please do let me know and I will be more than happy in answering them.
The au-pair will be required to stay with my son mainly while I´m in school at night. Part of that time he will be asleep. You will also have to be with him sometimes so I can study and you will be required to cook and do some light housechores (wash dishes and so on). We have another person to do the heavy cleaning. All the schedule is quite flexible and your free time will be mainly during the day. When I have holidays you will have more free time too.
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