Baby Nurse:
A Job Description
Becoming a Town + Country Baby Nurse
If you have significant experience as a Baby Nurse, Night Nanny, Post-partum Doula or Newborn Specialist and you are seeking your next position, we’d love to hear from you! Town + Country represents the best Baby Nurses in the business. We will take the time to understand you and your unique strengths so we can present you in your best light to our clients.
Town + Country is the Bay Area’s most established and largest staffing agency. Most of our clients are repeat customers or referrals from their family and friends. Because of these long-standing relationships we are able to provide you with access to the best jobs in the Bay Area.
Our clients come to us seeking the best Baby Nurses in the Bay Area, and we deliver. Most of our clients want Baby Nurses with several years of professional, in-home experience. For most assignments, qualified candidates will have at least two to three years of experience, although we do occasionally have unique positions with varying requirements for experience or education. In any case, it’s important that your experience is recent.
We always contact every previous employer to check your references and make sure that all previous employers are able to provide an excellent reference before recommending you to our clients. Also, we conduct thorough background checks to make sure that everyone feels safe as they enter into a very important relationship. As you work with us, we will also follow up with each of your clients to get their feedback.
Finally, Town + Country is here to make the right match. Every family is different and each Baby Nurse brings a unique combination of strengths, skills and experiences. We’re here to make sure that every match we make is rewarding for both our clients and our Baby Nurses.
Responsibilities
The duties of a Baby Nurse may include:
- Feeding by bottle or bringing baby to Mom for nursing
- Changing
- Laundering infant clothes
- Sterilizing bottles
- Burping and settling newborn back to sleep after feeding
- Helping to create a nurturing, stimulating environment for baby during waking hours
- Documenting baby’s patterns, including sleeping log and feeding and changing times
- Transitioning baby to a regular feeding schedule
- Formulating a sleep schedule
- Educating parents about care for twins, triplets, etc.
- Parental guidance and support
- Consulting on lactation issues
Compensation
Compensation for a Baby Nurse is usually based on the amount of experience the candidate brings to the position.
Salary
The salary range for a Baby Nurse is $25 to $35 per hour. Salaries for twins typically begin at $30 per hour.
What candidates, clients and staff are saying
“I feel so fortunate to have found my positions as a result of working with your agency. Thank you for your ongoing support, your consistent availability to answer questions and for checking in with me from time to time. Your entire staff has been incredibly supportive and professional at all times. I can’t thank you enough.” —Felicity
“I was really impressed with Town + Country. I started working with another agency; they sent six Baby Nurses but I didn’t like any of them. When I switched to T+C, Elizabeth really listened to me; she paid attention to what I needed and was looking for. Then she made the match – Rosemarie, the Baby Nurse I hired, was the first person I met.” —Barbara, New Mom
“Rose was a big support, provider of great advice and a good partner to us. It was nice to have her there every evening. She helped with a lot of sleep training and really participated in the stages and changes in the baby’s development that occurred over the months she was with us. She was incredibly helpful along the way, both practically helpful and helpful on a psychological basis. We trusted her completely. We could just go to our room and relax and know that she would care for our son the way we would ourselves." —Marian, First-time Mom
“We have a stable and highly experienced pool of Baby Nurses. Over the years I’ve gotten to know these committed women quite well and I have a good sense of which Baby Nurse will be a good match for each family.” —Elizabeth Dameron-Drew, Town + Country Resources
