Nanny
Nannies in Palm Beach
Nannies for Palm Beach families who split the year between homes, from everyday care on the island to rota cover that moves with the children.
Palm Beach
Hiring a nanny in Palm Beach often means hiring for a family that is on the island for part of the year and somewhere else for the rest. The season here runs from November to May, which spans most of a school year, so whoever cares for the children has to keep their routines steady through arrivals, house guests and the move to another home when it ends. The Wellington Agency places nannies with Palm Beach families, and we start by asking how the children's year is actually spent.
We serve families on Palm Beach Island, in Manalapan and on Singer Island. Most nannies here live out, some live in, and travel with the family is arranged as it is needed. Two requests come up often enough that we raise them early: experience in an oceanside home, and a nanny who has a car and drives.
The role in Palm Beach
A nanny's year in Palm Beach
Day to day, the job is the children: safe supervision, routines and healthy habits, meals, getting ready for school and help with homework, and activities suited to their age. In Palm Beach that day can include a drive over the bridge to West Palm Beach for school or a lesson, and hours by the water, where an oceanside house needs a nanny who watches the beach and the pool as closely as the playroom.
Rota nannies are in demand here. Two nannies alternate, usually in blocks of weeks on and weeks off, so a family that keeps long or unpredictable hours, or moves between Palm Beach and other houses, has steady cover without wearing one person down. It changes the search, because we are finding two people who will hold the same routines rather than one.
Families often want a language spoken at home as well. Spanish, French and Italian are among the ones we are asked for, and a nanny who uses a language naturally with the children through the day gives them more of it than a lesson once a week.
Why Wellington
Nanny or governess for a Palm Beach family
The distinction matters more in a seasonal town. A nanny provides the day-to-day care. A governess follows a curriculum and travels with the family, which is why households whose children divide the school year between Palm Beach and somewhere else often consider one: the governess keeps the lessons consistent wherever the family happens to be living.
Either way, the search starts with how well a candidate's instincts match the parents'. We ask directly about discipline, screens, food, sleep and how much structure a day should hold, because families on the same schedule rarely want the same person.
Every candidate goes through reference checks and background verification before you meet them, and most of the nannies we work with hold CPR certification and childcare training. Placements typically take 2 to 6 weeks, including trials, so a family arriving in November does well to start the search in early autumn.
Questions
Frequently asked
Most live out. Some families have a nanny live in, usually where the house has genuinely private accommodation and the hours are long, and travel with the family is arranged as needed.
Yes, and families with more than one home increasingly choose rota for that reason. Two nannies alternate, so the children keep familiar carers as the family moves between homes and neither nanny works for months without a break.
Clients here ask for it, and the job is hard to do without a car: school, activities, the beach and appointments are spread across the island and the mainland. Tell us whether the nanny will drive the family's car or their own.
A nanny who speaks French can use it with the children every day, which is how many families build a second language. If you want structured lessons and a curriculum followed, that is a governess's work rather than a nanny's.
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