Start Your Part-Time Babysitting Business In The Uk

Learn how to successfully work as a babysitter by starting your own part-time business while you study or work.

What you'll learn
Build a winning babysitter profile that attracts bookings
Manage successful babysitter bookings with happy children
Prepare food and handle health and safety issues
Charge for your bookings and handle tax and insurance appropriately
Requirements
No previous childcare experience required.
Minimum age 16.
Description
Studying to be a babysitter allows you to get trained to look after children in other people's homes. Working as a babysitter and running your own babysitting business is very rewarding and will teach you not only childcare skills but business and leadership skills that you can use in the future. In this course, you will learn about DBS certificates and how to apply for the correct one. You will learn the basics of first aid and which insurance to get. You will also learn about the different types of babysitting services you can offer parents and what to charge for each of them. You will also be taught how to build a babysitter profile and where and how to start marketing your services. You will also learn how to win bookings by preparing for interviews. You will also be taught how to run a successful booking from start to finish where you will cover your bookings activities involving making, baking, and shaking. You will also be taught how to handle any unexpected situation such as an emergency and finally, you will learn how to get paid at the end of your babysitter booking. By the end of this course you will be able to launch your part-time babysitting business, market yourself to families to attract bookings, and be fully comfortable in running a successful booking and taking payment at the end.I look forward to guiding your through your journey!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome to the course

Lecture 2 Course Structure

Section 2: Before You Start

Lecture 3 Getting Your DBS

Lecture 4 How to decide which babysitting service to offer to parents

Lecture 5 How to get your Insurance sorted

Lecture 6 How to set your rates of pay

Lecture 7 How to create your babysitter profile

Section 3: How to get bookings

Lecture 8 How to market yourself

Lecture 9 How to prepare for interviews

Lecture 10 How to manage your bookings

Lecture 11 Preparing for your first babysitter booking

Lecture 12 What you should do to be safe when babysitting

Section 4: What to expect on a babysitter booking

Lecture 13 Using your babysitter journal

Lecture 14 The actual booking

Lecture 15 Keeping in touch and dealing with late returners

Section 5: Payment and Cancellations

Lecture 16 Getting Paid

Lecture 17 Understanding Tax and National Insurance

Lecture 18 Cancellations

Lecture 19 Advice on savings and investments

Section 6: Babysitting through the years

Lecture 20 How to babysit tiny babies (0-12 months)

Lecture 21 How to babysit a toddler (1-3 years)

Lecture 22 How to babysit a pre-schooler (3-5 years)

Lecture 23 How to babysit school age children (4 years+)

Section 7: How to deal with unexpected situations

Lecture 24 Basics in First Aid Training

Lecture 25 Accidents in your care

Lecture 26 How to deal with negative feedback

Lecture 27 Safeguarding concerns and how to report them

Lecture 28 How to look after an ill child

Section 8: Babysitter to the rescue

Lecture 29 Common childhood illnesses and contagious diseases

Lecture 30 Common infestations in children

Any person aged 16 years and older who would like to start babysitting part time or who would like to to start their own part -time babysitting business