"Nanny McPhee meets Mrs Doubtfire meets Mary Poppins" Which is how a friend describes me. I am a caregiver through and through, and truly love working with children. I invite you to view my resume-website for a comprehensive look at my experience, skills and qualifications: janiwittaker. com I believe my broad range of experience will benefit any children in my care, and I can safely say that kids love to hang out with me - we have fun. My focus is learning through creativity, through development of imagination and curiosity. I believe in play as a conduit to development, and I love to help guide children to learn about their capabilities and limits through the challenges of stretching themselves, physically, mentally and emotionally. I am a firm advocate of outside play, imagination play, of learning through storytelling. I also believe in helping children to learn their responsibility to be part of a household through helping with chores, done with a sense of fun whilst giving them a strong sense of value and accomplishment. I have high expectations of good behaviour and of good manners and find children respond to my firm sense of assumption that they will indeed comply with a willingness to rise to those expectations. My entire career has been steeped in helping to bring healthy children into the world. I have been a doula for 33 years, have a 25 year career in fertility and pregnancy, I hold paediatric qualifications and I also ran a teen clinic for many years. I am principally an educator. I have been both an undergraduate and post graduate university lecturer, and have a long career as an international conference lecturer in my subjects. I have been teaching since my late teens, when I taught riding for the disabled, up through my time as an ESL teacher, on to my aforementioned university career. My most recent position has been as House Manager/Nanny for a West Vancouver family, caring for two boys, age 2 & 5. My role is to ensure the house runs smoothly, that the children are safely ferried to their school and activities, and to keep the household running smoothly so the parents have maximum time to spend enjoying their children without the pressure of chores. The husband has recently been made redundant and hs been unable to secure another job, and unfortunately this has also made me redundant. We are all very sad about this, as I have wonderful bonds with both boys. Before that I was with a 4 generation family in Langley Township. I cared for the 87 year old great grandmother, who is bedridden after a catastrophic stroke, and I tutored the 3 great grandchildren, ages 13, 9 and 5. I have worked as the Behavioural Interventionist and Special Education Assistant for the 5 year old with ASD and ADHD. I also helped support the home schooling for the 9 year old (also ASD) and the 13 year old (severe social anxiety) as an SEA. This job thoroughly re-kindled my love of working with children, and so I have extended my Senior Care remit to also embrace Childcare work. When this family relocated to 100 Mile House, I then moved to an Elder care short-term position in West Vancouver, to be nearer to my mother. This position then segued to my current job. If you feel I would good fit for your family, do please feel to ring me directly for an informal chat. My number is on my website. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Jani * * * Additional Experiences/Qualifications: I am highly experienced and bring I bring a unique mix of down-to-earth coupled with my extensive education and my highly cosmopolitan international experiences. I have lived in the UK for 30 years, and I have travelled to over 30 countries, including extended time living in Japan and in Australia/NZ. I believe my broad range of experience will benefit any children in my care. Two of my biggest fans are my grown up sons, who often refer to how much they respect the upbringing that has developed them into kind, compassionate, curious and engaged, really rather nice human beings. It would be my very great pleasure to bring some of that homespun joy into your family.

* * * 30 years in the caring professions; reliable, ever cheerful, diligent and kind. Cheerful really is my default setting. I bring a combination of youthful maturity and have a great capacity to get along with people of all ages. I trained with Social Services UK, doing care in the community as I put myself through college, while I was raising my own 2 children. I have a 25 year career as a Chinese medicine physician and university lecturer: specialist pregnancy and fertility, high risk pregnancy and paediatrics. I have been a doula for 33 years, with permission to practice at the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford and the Portland Hospital for Women and Children London. I have attended hundreds of home, birthing center and hospital births. I have had rigorous training through UK Social Services, in conjunction with the NHS (National Health Service): I have certified in: CPR First Aid at Work - level 3 Food Safety: courses 1 to 4 Moving and Positioning Using Lifting Apparatus Dementia Awareness Carer Training End of Life Care Stroke Awareness Diabetes Awareness I was principle carer for my father-in-law for 15 years, helping through many hurdles in his ageing process; Parkinson's, related dementia, macular degeneration (he became legally blind) deafness, chronic pain due to WW2 injuries, depression. I am not licensed to practice acupuncture in Canada, thus my decision to pursue employment as a live-in caregiver for either Senior Care or as a Nanny/Tutor. I bring a wealth of calm and cheerfulness to all that I do. If my combination of youthful energy and mature experience appeals to you, then do please be in touch for an informal chat to see if I might be a good fit for your family. Please check out my website for a comprehensive look at my skills, qualifications and experience. I look forward to hearing from you. janiwittaker dot com

MA Oxford Brookes University (UK) - Senior Lecturer Obstetrics and Gynaecology Celta (ESL) NHS / UK Social Services - 'Care in the Community' Paediatric Diploma Behavioural Interventionist Special Education Assistant