NIGHT MATERNITY NURSE - open

ROSE BAY, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Days/Hours: 5 nights per week, 9pm to 7am

Start date: ASAP

Contract: Initial 3-month temporary contract, with potential to transition into a daily nanny role thereafter

Accommodation: Live-out

Household: Young Asian couple

Baby: One newborn, currently 3 weeks old; formula-fed, healthy, and with no known allergies

Compensation: Competitive hourly rate, depending on experience

Overview

A lovely young Asian couple based in Rose Bay, Sydney, is seeking an experienced, calm, and reassuring Night Maternity Nurse to support them with their 3-week-old baby.

The baby is healthy, formula-fed, and has no known allergies or medical concerns. The baby is doing very well and no longer requires regular overnight feeds, but is currently waking approximately four times during the night. The family is therefore looking for a candidate with excellent hands-on newborn experience, particularly someone who is highly confident with settling and resettling a baby calmly, consistently, and gently throughout the night.

The main focus of the role will be providing attentive overnight care, helping the baby return to sleep following night wakings, monitoring sleep patterns, and supporting the family in encouraging longer and more settled periods of sleep, always in line with the parents’ wishes and safe-sleep guidance.

This is initially a 3-month night maternity nurse contract. If the placement is successful and there is a strong connection with the family, there is the potential for the role to transition into a longer-term daily nanny position after the initial contract.

The ideal candidate will be warm, practical, discreet, and able to work independently overnight while offering the parents reassurance, consistency, and professional newborn support.

Responsibilities

  • Provide attentive, nurturing, and professional overnight care for a 3-week-old, formula-fed baby.

  • Prepare formula feeds as required, following the parents’ instructions and appropriate hygiene standards.

  • Settle and resettle the baby calmly and confidently during overnight wakings.

  • Support the baby towards longer and more settled periods of sleep, using gentle and age-appropriate methods.

  • Maintain consistency with the baby’s existing routine and follow the parents’ preferences.

  • Monitor and keep notes on the baby’s sleep, waking patterns, comfort, feeds, and general wellbeing where required.

  • Ensure the baby is comfortable, appropriately dressed, and safely settled throughout the night.

  • Follow all parental instructions, medical guidance, and safe-sleep practices at all times.

  • Communicate clearly with the parents at the end of each shift, including updates on sleep, feeds, and any relevant observations.

  • Carry out light nursery duties overnight, including keeping the nursery tidy, preparing and sterilising bottles, cleaning feeding equipment, and managing baby laundry where appropriate.

  • Offer calm, practical, and reassuring support to the parents throughout the placement.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Maternity Nurse, Night Nanny, Newborn Care Specialist, or highly experienced newborn nanny.

  • Excellent experience caring for formula-fed newborns from birth to at least 3 months old.

  • Strong settling and resettling skills, with a gentle, calm, and consistent approach.

  • Confident managing frequent night wakings and supporting newborn sleep routines appropriately.

  • Knowledgeable about safe formula preparation, bottle sterilisation, safe-sleep guidance, and newborn care.

  • Warm, patient, nurturing, discreet, and reassuring.

  • Able to work independently and remain alert throughout an overnight shift.

  • Respectful of the family’s routines, preferences, culture, and approach to newborn care.

  • Current Paediatric First Aid and CPR Certificate is essential.

  • Current Working With Children Check (WWCC) and Police Check are highly preferred.

  • Legally entitled to work in Australia.

  • Professional, reliable, punctual, and able to provide excellent references from previous newborn or maternity roles.

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