Location: In-home
Schedule: Part-time
Compensation: Competitive, based on experience

About the Role

We are seeking a warm, attentive nanny to care for foster toddlers in a nurturing, structured home environment. This role is ideal for someone who understands early childhood development and can provide consistency, patience, and gentle guidance to children and teens who may have experienced trauma.

Hours will be: 

1P-9P Sat

2:30P-6P M, W, F 

2:30P-9P TH

Room to grow for the proactive person

Responsibilities

• Provide constant, attentive supervision and ensure safety
• Support daily routines (meals, naps, diapering/toileting, potty training, bedtime routine)
• Engage toddler, children and teens in age-appropriate play, learning, and sensory activities
• Use trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate behavior strategies
• Support emotional regulation and attachment-building
• Maintain predictable schedules and transitions
• Communicate daily observations with foster parents
• Light child-related housekeeping (plates, silverware, cups, tupperware, toys, toddler laundry)
• Up to 5 toddler/children/teens at a time. Usually 4.

Requirements

• Experience working with teens, toddlers and children (ages 2-15)
• Strong communication and boundary-setting skills
• Ability to play without using screens
• Calm, non-reactive approach to challenging behavior
• Valid driver’s license and clean driving record
• Ability to pass background checks and required clearances (this is a 7 step process and will take 3-4 hours of your time) to be around foster children

Preferred (Not Required)

• Experience in youth work, behavioral health, or education
• Trauma-informed care or crisis intervention training
• CPR/First Aid certification
• DFPS background clearance as a babysitter to foster children

Ideal Candidate

• Patient, firm, and respectful
• Comfortable mentoring without over-parenting
• Consistent, reliable, and emotionally regulated