Company Description
Alpine nanny GmbH has been providing professional childcare services in Zermatt since 2013. Our qualified and fully screened nannies provide care for families who love skiing and snowboarding in Zermatt Switzerland . We believe that happy children, happy nannies and happy parents make the perfect ski holiday. Our aim is to provide the best childcare for peace of mind and an unforgettable season for our nannies too!
Do you Love working with children? Love the out doors playing in the snow and enjoying a new challenge every week?
Alpine nanny are looking for experienced nannies for the 2024-25 ski season in Zermatt.
This is a full-time position for the winter ski season 2024-25 .
(Please note we can only accept applications from candidates with an EU passport.)
Five reasons why you may prefer to do a ski season and look after children at the same time.
- You feel confident enough to look after children unsupervised.
- You love being around kids, but want to work in a different environment so mountain life sounds interesting and different.
- You want to explore or improve your winter sport, skiing or snow boarding.
- You want to meet other like minded people and make new friends.
- You want to earn enough cash to enjoy yourself and save!
Key Role and Responsibilities
- Supervise and look after children or babies aged from 3 months to 13 years, either in their a chalet, hotel and outside in the ski resort.
- Entertain children indoors with age-appropriate toys and activities. Take children outside to go sledging, play in the snow, go for walks, rides in gondolas go on trains.
- Prepare lunch and snacks
- Pick up children from ski school.
- Change nappies and give baths when required and put to bed.
- Communicate with parents and have an organized plan of activities including ski school picks and flexibility to work around the family schedule.
- Available for evening babysitting
Alpine nanny work with different families each week and the hours will vary.
Some weeks we are super busy and some we are not as busy.
What We Offer
- we offer a monthly salary to our Nannie’s for living cost.
- how ever we pay our Nannie’s hourly, at the end of the season we count all your hours.
- shared accommodation is provided and the cost deducted each month.
- ski pass for the season for work and free time.
- Uniform winter jacket for work polo shirts jumpers fleece.
- Backpack
- communication with alpine nanny team to support you throughout each booking
- full-time opportunities.
- Opportunity to ski and/snowboard when not working
- Plan and reminders for your booking with plenty of time to prepare.
We do get last minute bookings so we ask for flexibility as well.
- A fantastic opportunity to work in a ski Resort in Switzerland with a reference at the end of the season!
Our excellent nannies have been with us for many years and we pride ourselves for the care we provide to our clients each year so having a great team makes for a great season. We take care of you so you can be happy working with us.
We are taking bookings now so do not miss out on this amazing full of fun opportunity to work with kids in the snow!
To join the alpine nanny team, simply send us your CV by email!
Requirements
- At least 2/3 years paid childcare experience with babies and young children.
- EU passport only.
- Advanced English speaking plus other languages a great plus.
- Three contactable references or more and written references.
- Police check/DBS
- First Aid Certificate
- Reliable, responsible, flexible , fun and able to work independently