Melbourne is one of the world's busiest city to be with better market for babysitters to find jobs there as far as most of the parents used to be working to cover up their living cost in Melbourne. As a result the demand for Melbourne babysitting services is comparatively higher. In this article, we will discuss of having a backup babysitting services in a busy city like Melbourne.
There are possibilities for unexpected things to happen in every person's live. It is applicable for babysitters as well. There may be some urgent or personal situations where babysitters may not offer child care services. Such position may put the parents in difficult position until they find another babysitter. As it the case, it is better if you can know someone earlier who is offering child care services, that would be easy when your babysitter is in a position of leaving his/her child care services for you. During initial stage of selecting babysitter, you could have applications from various other candidates other than your current babysitter. It is better to know about other candidates service details and contact details as well, that may help for your backup need.
Anyhow, all of your candidates might be looking for full-time babysitting job, rather than part-time one. If that is the case, you may ask your friends or neighbors to recommend a part-time babysitter for you. In most cases, it works as you may already know about the babysitter's family or friends and you have some ideas on how that babysitter will treat your child. By references you can hire the babysitter for part-time until your regular sitter is back.
Even if you are going around with references, some cases, you may not sure how the babysitter will treat the children and how the child may react to the sitter. In this case, you may need to be with the babysitter for sometime until the child get used to, that helps you to monitor the babysitter as well. You may setup some video camera at home to monitor the babysitter when you are away. Also, do not forget the determine the hours to work and when to work, say for example, Saturday 12.00 p.m – 4.00 p.m and make decisions about hourly charge as well.
We always cannot guarantee that our family, friends or neighbors may know or refer some babysitters, as far as they never worked with such services or the people whom your friends used are not offering such sitting services anymore or etc. In this case, next option may be finding someone around Melbourne who is looking for part-time babysitting jobs Melbourne, they may be college students on their late teen. You can find them via websites or local newspaper ads. Usually, late teen or college students do part-time babysitting as they need some extra money and they usually go college. Also, usually kids are happy to see younger babysitters than older ones. These young babysitters are age enough to look after a kid, you do not have to worry about them. Anyhow, if you are getting someone from newspapers or websites, make sure you do all usual checks like family background check, references check, police clearances check and interviews. Those will make you comfortable with your sitter.
When you are finding a part-time/backup babysitters, it is better to have at least three to four sitters in contact and you may use them for your future need.
