Infant Nanny, Encinitas

Monday–Friday, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM | 40 Guaranteed Hours per Week
Compensation: $30–$35 per hour, depending on experience

Crunch Care is seeking a warm, energetic, and attentive nanny to care for a 6-month-old infant. The family is looking for a lasting partnership with someone who enjoys providing nurturing, interactive care and supporting their child’s development into toddlerhood.

The ideal candidate is playful, affectionate, outdoors-oriented, and responsive to the child’s individual needs while respecting the family’s routines and parenting preferences. The household also includes a friendly King Charles Spaniel, so candidates should be comfortable around dogs.

• Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM

• 40 guaranteed hours per week

• Openness to occasional weekend date-night care, arranged in advance

• Openness to discussing future travel with the family

• Provide attentive, individualized infant care, recognizing and responding to the child’s cues around sleep, feeding, and emotional needs.

• Follow the family’s care instructions, routines, and parenting preferences.

• Engage the child throughout the day through age-appropriate play, reading, singing, and interaction.

• Support developmental milestones, movement, exploration, and motor skill development.

• Prioritize daily walks, park visits, and age-appropriate outings, ideally twice a day when appropriate for the child’s routine, weather, and needs.

• Communicate clearly with the parents about their child’s day, routines, development, and changing needs.

• Adapt activities and care as the child grows into toddlerhood.

• Keep the nursery and childcare spaces organized.

• Wash, fold, and put away baby laundry.

• Clean bottles, feeding supplies, and baby dishes.

• Occasionally run errands for baby essentials.

• Maintain supplies and organization related to the child’s daily care.

• Recent professional infant-care experience, ideally substantial experience with children under 12 months

• Strong, verifiable references supporting infant-care experience

• Warm, affectionate, playful, and enthusiastic about actively engaging with a young child

• Energetic and outdoors-oriented, with an interest in daily walks and outings

• Attentive and responsive to individual sleep, feeding, and emotional cues

• Calm, patient, emotionally mature, and adaptable

• Reliable, punctual, and consistent with scheduling

• Communicative, professional, and receptive to feedback

• Proactive while respecting the family’s parenting preferences and boundaries

• Interested in a long-term role supporting the child through infancy and into toddlerhood

• $30–$35 per hour, depending on experience and qualifications

• 40 guaranteed hours per week

• Paid time off and paid holidays, with details outlined in the employment agreement

• Flexibility in coordinating vacation schedules between the family and nanny

• Potential future travel opportunities, with arrangements discussed in advance

To apply, please submit a detailed childcare résumé highlighting recent infant-care experience. Candidates should be prepared to provide strong, verifiable references and discuss their approach to responsive care, developmental activities, daily outings, and collaboration with parents during screening.