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Simplifying Your Search for the Perfect Nanny
Finding the perfect nanny for your family can be challenging. At Mom’s Best Friend, we make it simple and stress-free. Our team of experts carefully screens each candidate to ensure you find the best match for your needs. We have been in business since 1994, and families trust us for their in-home Austin area nanny needs. We weed out 90% of candidates with our screening process, saving you time and providing you with the highest quality nannies. We will help you find a reliable, vetted, and experienced nanny quickly to make your life easier.
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Nanny Types
- Nanny: Our Austin nannies are caring, highly experienced, and professional caregivers. Our nannies receive weekly curriculum from MBF, encourage your children’s development, and engage them with games, arts and crafts, etc. Our nannies’ background is a combination of education, nanny, and/or teaching experience.
- Nanny Manager: Austin nanny managers may also transport your children to/from activities or school, organize after-school activities, run errands such as grocery shopping, organize, and/or assist with basic meal prep (chopping, boiling water, pre-heating oven, assembling ingredients for easy preparation).
- Family Assistants/ Managers: When children are a bit older, and true “childcare” responsibilities have dwindled, these roles tend to revolve around household management, driving kids to activities, supervising homework, errands, etc.
- Rotational Nanny (ROTA): When a family requires heavy (up to 24-hour) coverage, multiple ROTA Nannies tag-team, typically working 7-14 days at a time. Learn more about this option.
- Nanny Share: Two families come to Mom’s Best Friend with a unified request (we are unable to match families but there is a Facebook group where you can find with other families). The families typically have a total of 2-3 children, and have chosen this option for reasons including proximity, socialization, and cost savings (the hourly pay and placement fee are both split).
- Child Educator: These specialized, dedicated in-home instructors provide private instruction. Learn more.
Note: Placements are 20 hours/week or more, and we are not able to accommodate split shifts.
Pricing
Mom’s Best Friend fees are transparent and worth every moment of time saved! Like you, we won’t compromise, and because of that, the majority of our business comes from returning Austin families and word-of-mouth referrals.
Search Fee: $300 (includes access to our sitter services)
Nanny Pay: Live-out nannies are typically $27-$35/hour + employer portion of payroll taxes (depending on hours, location, duties, and job requirements). ROTA Nannies typically range from $100K-$140K. Paid vacation, holidays, and sick days are also standard, as well as mileage reimbursement (for on-the-job transportation).
Placement Fees:
| Placement Type | Placement Fee |
|---|---|
| Long-Term Nanny* | 15% of the nanny’s gross annual compensation (Based on 52 weeks in a year, 4-month free replacement guarantee, $3,600 min.) |
| Short-Term Nanny | 25% of the candidate’s gross compensation with a 12-week, $3,600 min. |
*Child Educators and Nanny Shares are 16%, and Live-In Nannies are 20%
All placement fees are non-refundable and are due prior to the candidate’s start date. All fees are payable by ACH, check or major credit card. Credit card fees over $1,000 will be subject to a 3% third-party payment processing fee.
All placements include:
- A confidential consultation: understand your family’s needs and answer any questions about the process
- Screening and matching: candidate recruiting, interviewing, background checks, reference checks, and matching ages, location, schedule, pay, etc.
- Family interview process: phone or video, in-person, and trial time
- Hiring handbook: including interview questions and hiring tips
- Free tax consultation and waived set-up fees: provided by our partners GTM Payroll Services
- Trial time: one week of a working interview to make sure the placement is a fit
- Employment Agreement: a detailed contract that serves as an offer for your nanny, setting expectations and spelling out all details to avoid miscommunication
- Weekly themed curriculum: sent directly to your nanny
- Nanny training: initial professional development materials and annual National Nanny Training Day offerings
- Unlimited support for the life of the placement: advice, industry standards, employment questions, and complimentary 1-hr consultation with national nanny coaching and mediation expert Lindsay Heller, The Nanny Doctor
- Sitter service membership: provided through Jovie
Screening
After so many years in business, the majority of our candidates have been either placed with us in the past, or are referred by placed candidates. Of those remaining, our recruiting process begins by casting a wide net across many mediums, including online advertising and sourcing candidates directly. Each nanny then has to go through our intensive screening process, eliminating 90% of applicants. This ensures that our clients do not have to spend any time sifting through applications or worrying about qualifications. You can make one call and rest assured that we will quickly find you the best candidate for your needs.
Below are the steps in the screening process:
- Extensive online application
- Verification of Social Security Number as well as another form of legal identification
- Have at least 3 childcare experiences(at least 1 of them in-home) and/or 3 years of related experience
- Screening interview
- Related references/employment verification checked
- Extensive criminal background investigation
- Criminal background investigation
- Motor vehicle records check
- Highest level of education verified
- Agency Training: Nanny Professional Development
- CPR and First Aid certification
Also available per client’s request at an additional cost: 5-panel drug screening.
Search Process
- Consultation: Schedule a call to discuss your specific needs or complete a short profile to get more information.
- Starting a Search: We will create a job description, collect the client agreement and search fee, and begin the search.
- Interviews: We will begin submitting (or recruiting) skilled, pre-screened nannies to interview. We recommend bringing one or two of the nannies back for “trial time” to observe them in action as part of a working interview.
- Hiring: After you have found your perfect match, we will draft an employment agreement to create your offer, detailing the specific duties, compensation, and terms of employment. The placement fee is due on or before their start date.
- Ongoing Support: We can be contacted for industry recommendations / standards, appropriate expectations, and any necessary coaching or issue resolution.
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What Our Clients Say
“Our nanny has been a dream and has become the perfect extension of our family. We couldn’t function without her! The service with Mom’s Best Friend was flawless.” -Molly G.
“Our nanny has been incredible. We feel so grateful to have found her. She is punctual, proactive, professional, kind, and so wonderful with our daughter. She takes her job seriously and puts 110% to everything she does. We are so happy with her and the process through Mom’s Best Friend.” -Natalie A.
“Things with our nanny are going exceedingly well. She is a wonderful addition to our family and has really gone above and beyond for us. I don’t know what we would have done without her! And I’m sure we will make use of the sitter services in the future as well! Thanks for helping us find our nanny – we are so grateful!” -Bre M.
“Our nanny is WONDERFUL! We are so happy to have found her. She is amazing with our daughter, and has been so helpful and flexible. Everyone who is a part of your team was so great to work with and really took the time to help me during this process. We really appreciate all of your help and couldn’t be happier!” -Jenna M.
“We are truly enjoying having our nanny as a part of our family – she’s been wonderful with our boys and we are very happy. We are hoping she will stay with us for years to come. We had a wonderful experience with MBF, thought that the process was really easy, and enjoyed being able to review written references prior to interviewing.” -Cristina L.
“Thanks to you and your team for helping us through this process. Very smooth, efficient, thoughtful – just what we were looking for!” -Anna S.
“Our nanny is INCREDIBLE. I truly cannot express how amazing she is and how much I love her. Everything about the Mom’s Best Friend was smooth and great. My only thought would be to encourage families to be open-minded with the process! I had an idea in mind for the type of nanny I wanted, and I’m so glad I decided to interview candidates who didn’t fit that mold, because that’s how I found our nanny!” -Savannah B.
“Our nanny is fabulous. She is a huge asset to our family. Thanks for your help in placing her. Only good things to say about our experience.” -Lauren W.