Portia M.
Looking for work as a babysitter or nanny
- 6 years paid experience
- Nanny in Springfield, VA 22151
- 21 miles, will travel 25 mi
Meet Portia
- Comfortable with pets
- Has a car
Hello all!!! My name is Portia Mincey and I am currently am a part-time nanny for a wonderful family and a home based business owner. I have been around children my whole life. My mother owned her own business providing childcare through all of my childhood and most of my adoloscence. During the evenings and summers of my middle school and high school years, I worked as a helper for the business until I graduated. Caring for children has become second nature to me and I enjoy helping them in any way that I can to make the lives of their parents easier. For the past four years I worked as a floater and head administrator at a local preschool academy in my area. After resigning, I continued to care for children that were still attendees of the preschool when they had an emergency or needed to have a night Read more off etc. I have recently decided that this is what I would like to do for awhile as the scheduling fits into my life perfectly! :) I am currently available for weekend-evening babysitting, so please contact me if you would like to interview me. Have an amazing day! :)
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Enhanced Criminal
Never run.
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Basic Criminal
Expired on 09/23/2016
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Motor Vehicle Records
Expired on 08/02/2014
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First aid certification
Certification is self-reported and not verified. Verify directly with the sitter.
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CPR certification
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Availability
Babysitter
- Generally available afternoons and weekends
Nanny
- Willing to consider a part time position
- Seeking Summer Position, Short-term (1 to 3 months) employment
- Start date is flexible
- My availability is valid through 3/31/16
- Willing to consider a part time position
- Seeking Summer Position, Short-term (1 to 3 months) employment
- Start date is flexible
- My availability is valid through 3/31/16
Ayana M.
8/25/2015
Portia cared for my 4 year-old son and infant daughter during the summer of 2015. She is warm, loving, and attentive. She managed both children very well, and my son truly loved her fun spirit. Portia did an excellent job of maintaining household chores and caring for the children. She travelled a great distance to our home and was NEVER late. I was impressed by her sense of reponsibility and dedication to the job. Portia is always smiling which made my husband and I feel secure to know that our children were in the care of someone that is happy! We would have loved to have her with us permanently, however we are expecting a third baby and needed a FT live-in care provider. Please call me with any questions that you have regarding her excellent care. Good childcare providers are very hard to find and you would be lucky to have Portia as a part of your family!
Terri L.
8/7/2014
Portia stepped right in to help when our previous babysitter moved suddenly. She was responsive, responsible and handled our crazy schedule with aplomb. My children are in middle school, and just need rides to activities and enough supervision to keep them out of trouble. It can be difficult to get them very engaged with a sitter, but Portia was able to get them engaged. I would recommend her wholeheartedly to any family.
Patricia C.
7/13/2014
I have had Portia watch my two boys a couple of times. She was on time both times and everything went great!! She is friendly and my boys respond to her very well (which says a lot because they aren't crazy about sitters!) I do plan on using her again!
Experience
Willing to care for 4+ children per sitting
$12-$20/hr for the first child, $2 for each additional child
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Infants (age 0-11 months) expand
- Swaddling
- Feeding
- Changing
- Bathing
- Assist with setting a routine
- Overnight care
- Mother's helper
- Occasional care
- Toddlers (age 1-3)
- Preschooler (age 4-5)
- Grade School (age 6-11)
Education
Graduated
References
- Client Join to contact reference
- Former Employer Join to contact reference
Additional services
- Meal Preparation
- Laundry
- Light Housekeeping
- Swimming Supervision
- Crafts
- Potty Training
- Travel with Family
- Willing to run errands as needed
- Willing to drive children to events, school, appointments, or carpooling
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Homework expand
- Finishing homework
- Checking answers
- Studying for a test
- Proofreading
- Basic math
- Elementary science
- Earth science
- Science
- English
- Essay writing
- Social studies