Previous services counting towards
continuos employment (if any):
Job Title:
Place of work:
Names of children and ages:
Duties: Sole responsibility
for the children of the family including preparing meals and feeding the children
a healthy diet, their laundry, taking them to suitable social activities/groups,
their physical and intellectual development and pre-school and school education,
keeping their rooms and play areas tidy, organising and undertaking any visits
to doctors, dentists, child health clinics and such other duties as a nanny would
undertake.
The employee is entitled to:
Meals
(please specify):
Use
of car:
To
use own car:
Petrol
costs (per mile):
Mileage
to and from work:
Other
benefits:
REMUNERATION
The employees
salary is Net per week payable weekly/monthly
in arrears by standing order/cheque on the 1st of each month. The employer will
pay all tax and national insurance contributions.
HOURS OF WORK
The employee will work from
am to pm . Days Per week.
The employee will remain with the children of the family if the employer cannot
return before pm. The employer will use reasonable
endeavours to return before pm. These hours
of work may only be changed by mutual agreement.
The employee will be
allowed weeks paid holiday each year. In
the first or last years of employment the employee will be entitled to holiday
on a pro-rata basis. Paid compensation is not normally given for holidays not
actually taken. Holidays may only be carried into next year with the express permission
of the employer. The employee will be free on all Bank Holidays or will receive
a day off in lieu, by agreement.
Holidays will (unless otherwise agreed)
be taken when the employer is on holiday. The employee should give at least 1
month=s notice for blocks of holiday exceeding 3 days and as much notice as possible
otherwise and holidays may only be taken at times that are agreed by the employer.
CONFIDENTIALITY
It is a condition of employment that now and at all times
in the future that, save as may be lawfully required the employee shall keep the
affairs and concerns of the employer and the household and her and its transactions
and business confidential.
PENSIONS
The employer does not operate
a pension scheme.
SICKNESS
The employer
will pay statutory sick pay as stipulated by the Government at the rates stipulated
by legislation. Any additional sickness payment will be made at the discretion
of the employer. The employee will notify the employer as soon as possible of
any illness preventing the employee coming to work and no later than 7.00am on
the day in question.
DISCIPLINE
Reasons which might give rise
to the need for discipline measures include the following:
Causing
a disruptive influence in the household
Job
incompetence
Unsatisfactory
standard of dress or appearance
Conduct
during or outside working hours prejudicial to the interest or reputation of the
employer
Failure
to comply with instructions and procedures, for example being unable to drive
due to a driving ban
Breach
of confidentiality clause
In the event of the need to take
disciplinary action, the procedure will be: Firstly - oral warning; secondly -
written warning; thirdly - dismissal.
Reasons which might give rise to
summary dismissal include the following: theft, drunkenness, illegal drug abuse,
child abuse, acting unsafely with children.
TERMINATION
In the first four weeks of employment, one week=s notice is required on either
side. After four week=s continuous service either the employee or the employer
may terminate this contract by giving four week=s notice and after six months=
continuous service either the employee or the employer may terminate this contract
by giving six weeks notice.
ADDITIONAL ITEMS:
Smoking
is not permitted in the house or near the children of the family.
The
employee may use the telephone for reasonable local calls and, in an emergency,
for national calls. Calls should not exceed , Per quarter.
The
employer may in consultation with the employee arrange with another family and
their Nanny(The Other Nanny) that in the event of either the employee or the Other
Nanny being absent due to illness or holiday either the employee or the Other
Nanny (as the case may be) will care for the children of both families.
During working
hours the employee will not look after any children other than the children of
the family without the consent of the employer.
In
addition to the children of the family, the employee will look after such other
children (but not more than two) during working hours as the employer may reasonably
request.
SIGNED BY THE EMPLOYER ..............................
DATE ................
SIGNED BY THE EMPLOYEE ..............................
DATE ................
