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Isobel Rabie

Narrabeen,NSW

Summary

I am a compassionate professional who has previously worked in childcare and I am known for high productivity and efficient task completion. I specialize in early childhood development, behavior management techniques and educational activity planning but looking to use these skills to further my career. I work well with people using empathy, communication, and patience to foster trusting relationships with children and adults alike.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Nanny

Private Family
Sydney, Australia
03.2022 - 02.2024
  • This job was a 4 day week nannying for a family who lived on Manly beach and had four children aged between 12 and 2
  • My sole focus was the youngest who at the time of starting was 2 years of age and 4 when I left
  • This job involved sole care of her for 10 hour days planning age appropriate activities and keeping her entertained whilst overseeing the run of the house

Nanny

Private Family
Sydney, Australia
08.2019 - 03.2022
  • This job started as a 4 day week role in the beginning looking after 3 children aged 4, 6 and 8
  • At the beginning the youngest was still at daycare so I would collect the children from school on 3 of those days a week and on the fourth day I would look after the youngest girl all day
  • This job involved picking the girls up from school, taking them to after school activities, overseeing homework, feeding back to the parents about their day, taking them to Dr appointments and creating activities to keep them entertained
  • Once the youngest girl started school the job hours changed to 5 days a week every afternoon after school
  • I would arrive at the house a couple of hours before school and make sure everything was ready so that the afternoon would run smoothly
  • I helped the girls with homework, revising for NAPLAN, the youngest with reading books from school and camera words to practice every week
  • In the school holidays I would often work full time every day with the three of them
  • Transported children to school, extracurricular activities, and appointments when needed.
  • Created an atmosphere of trust between myself and both the family and the kids I cared for.
  • Met and communicated regularly with parents to discuss children's activities and development.

Nanny

Private Family
London, UK
01.2018 - 08.2019
  • This was a 5 day week role working for a high net worth family in Wandsworth, South West London caring for children, a girl aged 7 and boy aged 9
  • This was a sole charge role when the parents were working full time jobs in Central London
  • This role was a little different as the children were school age however it meant I took a little different type of role organizing their routines for before and after school, organizing playrooms/bedrooms, staff working in the house and holiday camps
  • I travelled with the family and would coordinate holiday routines to create a fun balance of revising for school exams and having lots of fun!

Nanny

Private Family
Sydney, Australia
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • This was a 4 day week role working for a family in the North Shore of Sydney caring for their three children aged, 5 years old, 2 years old and 1 year old
  • This was a sole charge role when the parents were working and included me dropping the eldest child at school, overseeing learning time at home, planning and picking him up from extra curricular activities, making his lunch for school, helping him with learning the piano and playing together
  • On the days I was working the middle child would go to daycare two days a week and when she wasn’t in daycare I would take the middle and youngest child to activities such as story time at the library, play centres, parks and on walks
  • I’d help to create fun and stimulating activities for the children
  • We would play games inside such as puzzles, do crafts and board games
  • I also helped the youngest child move around, getting him to go from crawling to beginning to learn to walk!

Nanny

Private Family
London, UK
09.2016 - 12.2017
  • This was a permanent live in nanny role caring for 2 children aged 2 years old and a newborn in the November of 2016
  • This was a sole charge role as both parents were in full time employment and my role included normal nursery duties such as nursery run, age and stage appropriate activities and groups eg, rugby, music groups and swimming lessons with the children
  • I babysit for the family 2 evenings a week and have worked weekends when they have needed me
  • I have travelled with the family for up to 3 and a half weeks at a time
  • Their son was 2 years old when I started and the Mother was pregnant with the second child so I helped with the transition of him becoming an older brother, also getting the chance to work with a maternity nurse for the first 6 weeks their daughter was born
  • Whilst I was working with their son he started going to daycare so we incorporated some educational activities at the home to support him
  • These included creating activities to help with recognizing letters, learning phonics, spelling his name and providing support with communication through role play to encourage confidence

Nanny Trainee

The Chiltern College
Reading, UK
09.2014 - 07.2016
  • Throughout my training I have gained a wide range of practical experiences with children, both in the College on-site day nurseries, which have been judged ‘outstanding’ by OFSTED, and also in a range of College approved placements
  • This includes 2 terms experience working with children from 0-2 years, 2 terms experience working with children from 2-5 years old, half a term placement in primary school and half a term placement in a state nursery school and children’s center
  • I completed my final term working in a private family home alongside a Mum helping to care for her newborn twins and little boy
  • Throughout this time of working in the daycare I spent time learning practically which I enjoyed best
  • Some duties I had were but not limited to communicating with parents at the end of the day providing feedback from their day, setting up the room to include a range of activities each day to create a stimulating environment, writing observations on the children for reports, helping with transitions from different rooms for example, babies to toddlers or transitions such as toilet training
  • I was familiarized with policies and procedures of the daycare, safeguarding, welfare, valuing diversity
  • I got experience with planning activities, following the relevant curriculum and using my initiative to use my time effectively to the benefit of the children’s day

Babysitter

Private Family
Reading, UK
10.2015 - 06.2016
  • Throughout my second year at college I would regularly babysit for a local family whose children attended the college nursery
  • They had three children, aged 4 years old, 2 ½ years old and 9 months old
  • I would babysit for the family some evenings and this included helping the Mum to collect all three children from nursery, bathing the oldest two, entertaining the children and putting them to bed
  • I have also cared for the children on the weekends and overnight

Young Leader

1st Stanford in the Vale Brownies
Stanford in the Vale, UK
04.2012 - 06.2014
  • I started helping at the Stanford in the Vale brownies for my Duke of Edinburgh award bronze and silver qualification and then continued on for longer and made my Young Leader promise
  • My roles would include monitoring refreshment supplies, taking drinks orders, making them and handing them out, ensuring the girls wash up their cups properly and tidying everything away afterwards
  • I would welcome the brownies at the start of the meetings as this would allow the leaders to be able to talk to parents
  • I would clear up at the end of sessions
  • During the brownie meetings I would work with small groups of up to 6 girls or more and carry out activities that had been planned

Work Experience

St Hugh’s School
Farringdon, UK
07.2014
  • For my work experience I helped out in the nursery part of St Hugh’s school
  • I did my work experience for one week
  • My role and responsibilities during my work experience was helping to organize activities and to help with the children’s play time
  • I would monitor the children at break times ensuring that they were safe and playing nicely with each other
  • I was asked to set up some boards in the classroom to promote the children’s work
  • In the mornings before the children came in I would set up their water bottles and organize their play area and whilst they were playing outside I would set up the room inside so that it was ready with exciting activities for when the children came back

Education

CACHE level 3 -

The Chiltern College
Reading, Oxfordshire
07.2016

Diploma in child care & Education -

The Chiltern College
Reading, Oxfordshire
07.2016

GCSE - <ul><li>Maths Grade C, English Grade A, dual award science Grade D,C, Geography A</li><li> Religious Studies Grade A</li><li> Home Economics Grade B</li></ul>

St Helen and St Katharine
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
07.2014

Work Experience -

St Hugh’s School
Farringdon
07.2014

Primary School -

Lea School Primary School
Gainsborough
11.2010

Skills

  • Routine adherence
  • Safety awareness
  • First aid certified
  • Approachable
  • Dependable

Training

  • 10/01/14, 10/01/14, The Chiltern College, Student extinguisher training demonstration in the use of portable fire protection equipment
  • 11/01/14, 11/01/14, The Chiltern College, Health and safety Level 1
  • 11/01/14, 11/01/14, The Chiltern College, Manual handling Level 1
  • 11/01/15, 11/01/15, The Chiltern College, Food safety Level 2
  • 03/01/16, 03/01/16, The Chiltern College, Swimming with children
  • 04/01/16, 04/01/16, The Chiltern College, First aid Training
  • 05/01/16, 05/01/16, The Chiltern College, Baby sleep training
  • 06/01/16, 06/01/16, The Chiltern College, Baby massage and yoga
  • 06/01/16, 06/01/16, The Chiltern College, Makaton training
  • 07/01/16, 07/01/16, The Chiltern College, Music with children

Additionalinformation - Description

I am an outgoing and friendly person who enjoys activities such as running, baking and organizing social events with friends. I have a current NSW Working With Children Check and a full driver’s license as well as my own car. I moved to Australia in 2018 and met my now husband in my first year, we bought a property in the Northern beaches in mid 2022 and got married at the end of that year in Cape Town. I have permanent residency and my husband has become an Australian citizen, we intend to live in Australia forever.

Timeline

Nanny

Private Family
03.2022 - 02.2024

Nanny

Private Family
08.2019 - 03.2022

Nanny

Private Family
01.2018 - 08.2019

Nanny

Private Family
01.2018 - 12.2018

Nanny

Private Family
09.2016 - 12.2017

Babysitter

Private Family
10.2015 - 06.2016

Nanny Trainee

The Chiltern College
09.2014 - 07.2016

Work Experience

St Hugh’s School
07.2014

Young Leader

1st Stanford in the Vale Brownies
04.2012 - 06.2014

CACHE level 3 -

The Chiltern College

Diploma in child care & Education -

The Chiltern College

GCSE - <ul><li>Maths Grade C, English Grade A, dual award science Grade D,C, Geography A</li><li> Religious Studies Grade A</li><li> Home Economics Grade B</li></ul>

St Helen and St Katharine

Work Experience -

St Hugh’s School

Primary School -

Lea School Primary School

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