MATERNITY NURSE / BABY NANNY – Open

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Start date: ASAP

Contract: One-year contract, with potential to continue long-term

Hours: 12 hours per day, 6 days per week

Accommodation: Live-in, with separate private accommodation within the family grounds

Child: One healthy 4-week-old baby girl

Household: American family recently relocated to Abu Dhabi; first-time parents

Travel: Occasional international travel required

Compensation: AED 23,000–28,000 net per month, depending on experience

Overview

A lovely American family who have recently relocated to Abu Dhabi are seeking an exceptionally experienced, warm, and professional Maternity Nurse / Baby Nanny to care for their 4-week-old baby girl.

This is a live-in role within a formal but warm private household. The successful candidate will become an important source of support and reassurance for first-time parents, providing excellent hands-on newborn care while respecting and encouraging the parents’ involvement in their daughter’s routine and development.

The family is looking for a knowledgeable candidate with extensive experience caring for newborns through to toddler age. They would welcome thoughtful guidance and professional advice; however, it is essential that the Maternity Nurse is collaborative, gentle, and respectful of the parents’ wishes, rather than overly directive.

The family values a natural, calm, and simple approach to early childhood development. They favour quality, age-appropriate interaction, sensory play, outdoor time, reading, and routine over excessive toys or overstimulation. The Maternity Nurse will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a suitable feeding, sleeping, and developmental routine, adapting this as the baby grows.

The candidate will work alongside a Night Nanny, making excellent communication, consistency, handovers, and teamwork essential. The family travels periodically and the Maternity Nurse may be required to accompany them to ensure continuity of care.

Responsibilities

  • Provide full-time, attentive, and nurturing care for a 4-week-old baby girl.

  • Establish and maintain age-appropriate feeding, sleeping, bathing, and daily routines.

  • Prepare bottles, sterilise feeding equipment, and ensure all feeding items are hygienically maintained.

  • Monitor the baby’s wellbeing, comfort, feeding, sleep, and developmental progress.

  • Follow safe-sleep guidance, hygiene procedures, and all parental or medical instructions at all times.

  • Support the baby’s physical, emotional, and cognitive development through gentle, age-appropriate activities.

  • Create a calm, stimulating, and developmentally appropriate nursery environment.

  • Plan suitable sensory play, reading, music, tummy time, outdoor activities, and developmental outings as the baby grows.

  • Keep accurate daily records relating to feeds, naps, nappies, milestones, and any relevant observations.

  • Carry out all nursery duties, including baby laundry, wardrobe organisation, nursery tidiness, cleaning and sterilising bottles, and maintaining baby supplies.

  • Communicate closely with the parents and Night Nanny to ensure a consistent approach to the baby’s care and routine.

  • Offer sensitive, practical, and supportive guidance to the first-time parents when appropriate.

  • Prepare for and accompany the family on occasional international travel.

  • Maintain complete discretion, confidentiality, and professional boundaries at all times.

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years’ professional experience caring for infants and toddlers.

  • Extensive and recent newborn experience, ideally within private households or high-profile family environments.

  • Strong knowledge of infant development, newborn routines, safe sleep, feeding, weaning, and early years milestones.

  • Experience supporting first-time parents in a gentle, collaborative, and reassuring manner.

  • Calm, patient, nurturing, highly observant, and emotionally intelligent.

  • Naturally organised, hygienic, proactive, and highly attentive to detail.

  • A child-led and developmentally appropriate approach to play and learning.

  • Comfortable working alongside a Night Nanny and other household staff, with excellent handover and communication skills.

  • Polished, discreet, professional, and confident working in a formal private household.

  • Flexible and willing to travel internationally when required.

  • Current Paediatric First Aid and CPR certification is essential.

  • Valid Police Check / Enhanced DBS or equivalent clear background check.

  • A recognised childcare, maternity nurse, newborn care, or early childhood qualification is highly desirable.

  • Legally able to obtain a UAE employment visa.

  • Excellent, checkable references and a stable employment history.

  • Available to start ASAP.

Package

  • AED 23,000–28,000 net per month, depending on experience and qualifications.

  • One-year initial contract, with the possibility of a long-term extension.

  • Separate private live-in accommodation within the family grounds.

  • UAE employment visa and medical insurance provided.

  • One annual return flight home.

  • Flights to and from Abu Dhabi at the beginning and end of the contract.

  • All work-related travel, accommodation, and food expenses covered while travelling with the family.

  • 30 days’ paid annual leave per year.

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