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Reading, England - Host Family at a Glance
40-something family, primarily British, living in United Kingdom. Family speaks English, and French. Looking for a female Au Pair or Nanny. Our aupair will not need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
Customer Since 08/28/2008	Last Activity 11/12/2009	Profile added to 64 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 22 Due
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City	Reading
State/Province	England
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Country	United Kingdom

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Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair or Nanny
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny gender of	Female
Au Pair or nanny must be able to speak	English
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny in the age range	No Preference
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny of the nationality	No preference
Years of education required	No preference
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Full-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair or nanny	30 to 35 hours/week
We require the Au Pair or nanny to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair or nanny's use	Yes
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	Less than $100
Light housework required of Au Pair or nanny	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	English French
Our religion/spiritual practice is	No Religion
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	4
Children's ages	10, 8, 4, 4
We have children with special needs	No
Elderly care is required	No
Disabled persons care is required	No
We have pets	No
Our family falls in the age group	40-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	November, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	January, 2010
Shortest period Au Pair or nanny is required	6 months
Longest period Au Pair or nanny is required	24 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair/Nanny job description

We would like you to work for 25 - 35 hours per week, negotiable, doing house work and looking after the children. Our children are generally very well behaved and are not a problem to manage. We do have four children but they are normally out of the house during most of the daytime, both during school term and often in the holidays. If you can, we would like you to prepare some meals for the children, possibly collect them from the nearby school and play with them.

Family's Message to Au Pairs and Nannies

Dear Au Pair, We live in a lovely house in the countryside, near to the large towns of Reading and Newbury. Our house used to be a pub and part of it is quite old. The house has been modernised recently and we have built a new wing on the south side. We have a very good room--quite a big one--for you, with a stereo and a television. You will have Internet access from a computer that you will sometimes have to share with the children -- but that will generally be available when they are out or in bed. There is a bus service from the end of the road (less than 1km) into both Reading and Newbury. There is also (once a week!) a bus into Newbury that stops at our front door. The house is in a quiet spot but you will find excellent resources for young people in Newbury and, especially, Reading. There are good language schools in both Reading and Newbury. If you have a driving licence or if you learn how to drive while you are here, we have a small car that we could make available to you. We would need to be confident that you are a safe driver before we give you the keys and we may be able to help you to learn or improve. This is an excellent area for those who like nature, walking, riding (horses or bicycles). We are also lucky to have a fast train service from Reading into London (25 minutes). As a family, we like to travel. For the moment, we are expecting to travel mainly in Europe and we try to visit our house in the south-west of France several times a year. We would, of course, like you to travel with us, as part of our family. Jonathan works in computer technology, from a home se works four days a week as a marketing consultant. We both have flexible working arrangements and can be available to help when needed. The children are happy and helpful. We and they will be pleased to help you improve your English. We speak proper, standard English that will help you to learn good grammar. It would be helpful if you could already speak some English -- at least enough for basic communication -- before you started with us. Finally, we are an honest and, we believe, reasonable, family. We will always try to be honest with you and we will expect the same in return. If we sound like a family you would like to work and have fun with, please contact us. Best wishes, Jonathan and Louise