We had a fantastic experience with Nannies Plus earlier this year. After over a month of searching for and interviewing nannies and nanny shares on neighborhood, care, and local parent sites, we still hadn't found a good childcare situation for our 14-month-old on the eve of my beginning a new job. Desperate, we decided to bite the bullet and pay for a nanny placement service. We reached out to Nannies Plus after being referred by a neighbor. Joy was a pleasure to work with. She explained the entire process over the phone and during the in-home visit. We also appreciated that Nannies Plus handled background checks, confirming CPR certification, etc. She set our expectations in the event it could take months to find a good match (we were only looking for part time). However, I think it was within the week, Joy had two good candidates for us. We interviewed both over the next couple of weekends and felt that either could have been a good fit. Joy's analysis of their respective strengths seemed spot on to us. We ended up having a nanny within 2-3 weeks. Joy coordinated between the nanny and us until we signed the contract, and even recommended a payroll company, with which we've been pleased. We had such a great experience in our nanny hunt once we engaged Nannies Plus and we've had much better peace of mind leaving our child in the care of someone we know has been thoroughly vetted. read more

Working with joy has been, a Joy! I have been in the industry for over 35 years and Nanny's plus is one of the best agencies I've worked with. They are very attuned to the families as well as the nannies they are placing. I highly recommend this agency for both nannies and families. read more

Working with Joy and Nannies Plus was a smooth experience from start to finish. She is both a trusted advisor to parents and seems to maintain strong supportive relationships with the professional caregivers in her network. Her services took a lot of the stress and guesswork out of the process for us. We've been with the nanny Joy matched us with for two years and counting! read more

Joy and the Nannie's plus team are absolutely outstanding. From our first interaction with Joy, she was on time, on point, and found the best nanny for our house in a short period of time, through a thorough and thoughtful process. Overall, I will highly recommend working with Nannies Plus and we will work with them again in a heartbeat. read more

The whole Nannies Plus team was above and beyond helpful throughout my entire journey of finding a new family to work for. As well as helping me organize necessary health updates, my CPR/First Aid certification update, and background check, they also really took time to learn about me. They absolutely care to find an excellent fit between nanny and family and that's exactly what they did for me. I could not be happier with the wonderful family I am now working for and I could not have found them without the help of Joy and the team at Nannies Plus. read more

Nannies Plus takes great care in understanding your family needs to see if a great match can be made with a professional Nanny. Working with Joy was a pleasure. She was always prompt in communication, a great source of knowledge (as a veteran of the industry) and is genuinely interested in making a great match for both parties. While some searches may take longer, Nannies Plus sourced two incredible candidates in less than a week! After interviewing each in person, we thought the provided candidate profiles were spot-on in terms of assessing their relative strengths and childcare styles. It was also very reassuring to read interviews with the past three families they worked for. We were excited to make an offer to our Nanny and now a month-in, we couldn't be happier with the match! read more

As first-time parents, we'd heard bits and pieces of how our friends found childcare, but it always seemed to be a scattered process and the results seemed mixed and temporary -- my wife and I wanted to find someone that we could build a relationship with for years to come. We're typically the "we can figure this out ourselves" type, but a friend recommended Joy and Nannies Plus so strongly that we we reached out -- and we're so glad we did. We were on a short timeline before heading back to work and we wanted to find a true long-term fit -- somehow Joy managed to do exactly that. As others have mentioned, the in-person visit to our home was really great -- Joy genuinely wanted to learn about us, what kind of people we'd work best with, and to connect with our son and get to know him. She's not just sending you over a few resumes -- Joy took the time to source and interview several high quality candidates, but only sent us one -- and we were so happy with that candidate that we didn't need to see any more. Nannies Plus' fees felt very reasonable and proportional to the time investment and value they provided -- not what I saw in my online research of some other agencies out there. read more

Nannies Plus really came through in placing us with an awesome, experienced, and loving nanny for our infant son. We were in a bind as my wife was about to return to work and plans fell through at the last minute with the nanny we were going to hire. Joy did an in-home consultation to get a real feel for our family, values, and lifestyle, and matched us with a potential candidate soon after. It was a relief that we knew that the candidate was already fully vetted, and during the interview, we were able to focus on assessing fit and how she interacted with our son. We've had our nanny now for about 5 months now and she has been amazing. Throughout the process, Joy was incredibly professional, responsive, and it was clear just how much she cared about making sure we were matched with the right person to care for our precious son. We highly recommend Joy and Nannies Plus! read more

Having visited the cosy, inviting and beautifully-branded Nannies Plus location in Temescal and learning about the way her business works and the values she aspires to in running her business, like being truly supportive to nannies, using local businesses in doing her own business, honoring diversity and paying fair wages to name a few, I was thrilled to be able to refer Joy to my expectant parent neighbors, confident that they would be treated with openness, honesty and fairness by her, and as expected, they were delighted with her service. read more

My experience with Nannies Plus has been phenomenal. Seriously the best nanny agency I have worked with in the bay area and I was working with two other pretty large, repuatable agencies before. Never have I ever felt so listened to and respected. Joy was so quick to respond to me anytime I had a question and showed genuine support and understanding. The coolest part about Nannies Plus is that it is run by individuals who actually have years of experience working as nannies. This is such an advantage! Not only are they extremely knowledgeable about the ins and outs of nannying in the bay area but they also truly have YOUR best interest in mind because they know what its like to be a nanny. Nannies plus ensured I was happy in my placement and that my compensation matched my experience. I love the family I found through them-- the perfect match for me! Joy went out of her way to personally drive me around the area I was going to be working in since I was unfamiliar with it. I got my own personal tour! Who does that!? I also particulalry appreciated the 1 month trial with my new job. It gave me enough time to settle a bit and wrap my head around exactly what my day to day life would be like at work. The 1 month trial period made me feel confident in my final decision to stay with the family they connected me with. My expectations were exceeded and I am impressed especially considering they are a relatively new agency. If this great start is just their beginning then I really look forward to seeing them grow. Nannies- if you're looking for an agency that values you and cares about their clients, look no further. This is it. read more

We hired Nannies Plus to find our nanny after doing many interviews on our own through Care.com. Joy was absolutely amazing to work with because of her individualized approach. She realIy listened to us and took a lot of time to make sure she understood our family and what kind of nanny we needed. I've talked to many agencies, and Joy was by far the most generous with her time/advice and the most thorough during our initial consultation and home tour. Joy also just has a calming and empathetic presence that made me feel like she was a true partner to our family and cared just as deeply as we did about finding the right nanny. During the search, Joy checked in with us periodically just to let us know how things were going. We ended up hiring the first candidate she sent us. We loved her immediately and she really connected with our daughter. Joy went the extra mile to make sure our nanny checked all the boxes for what we were looking for. We tried a couple of other agencies who sent us several candidates, and most of them we didn't even take an interview with because they were so far off the mark. It was clear these other agencies were just email blasting all their current clients with profiles of nannies that were available now. Joy would never waste our time like this. She doesn't send you a candidate unless she believes you would hire them. Joy was also a great adviser to us through the hiring process. She helped us determine how much we should pay our nanny and what benefits we should offer in order to be competitive. She also didn't pressure us to do anything we weren't comfortable with. We had a wonderful experience with Joy, and we are so happy with the nanny that she found for us! I highly recommend Nannies Plus! read more

Joy is incredibly kind and genuine. She truly cares about the families that she works for and the nannies that she represents. Having worked as a longterm nanny herself, Joy truly understands what it takes to find the absolute best match for both parties. Joy is thorough, passionate, personable, funny and an excellent person to work with. read more

Joy was such a pleasure to work with. We were searching for a Nanny for this first time and the idea of leaving our children alone with a stranger was very scary. I had previously tried to find potential Nanny's on care.com, craigslist and friends referrals. Nothing felt right for our family. We sought out Joy not knowing what to expect. She was VERY thorough. She interviewed us in our home and I liked that she spent the time to get to know us before we even discussed who might be a fit as a Nanny. She made her recommendations afterwards based on learning about us, our needs and most importantly our children. The interview process was seamless, communication was easy. We only had 2 interviews and on the 2nd interview we had an amazing chemistry with our interviewing Nanny. and now... 2 months later, everything is wonderful, we don't know how we survived before our Nanny joined our family! I would like to think we are just really lucky but without Joy's ability to identify a families needs and a Nanny's potential I know this would not have worked out as perfectly as is has! (and, for the record, our first interview went VERY well too.. a perfect fit in many ways, we just were overpowered by an entire family connection with our 2nd interview.) Yes, it's expensive. But, it was the best investment into the care of our Children and knowing what we know today, we would do it all over again in a heartbeat if we had to go back and choose. Thank you Joy! read more

I couldn't have asked for more through our experience with Nannies Plus. Joy was professional, friendly and a wealth of information. We used her services to find a full time nanny for our son. After a thorough intake, we met with four candidates and ultimately found a nanny who was a wonderful fit for our family. Once we found our nanny we still had continued support from Joy and her team for writing and extending the offer, reviewing reference checks and establishing payroll services with a third party company. I have recommended Nannies Plus to friends and would continue to do so without hesitation! read more

Finding someone to entrust with the care of your children while you're planning to return to work can be a daunting and somewhat anxiety enducing task - unless you have enlisted the help of Nannie's Plus. Within 24 hours of my initial inquiry, I was talking to Joy, the founder of Nannies Plus - and setting up an in person session for Nannie's plus to visit our home, and help assess what we needed. Joy came to our home and spent several hours with us and our boys. She got to know us as parents, and as a family. Within days, we had several Nannies lined up as the potential caretaker of our boys. Ultimately, we met with three potential nannies and each was wonderful, experienced, and a good fit for us. Joy is caring, intuitive, and someone I would trust again and again to help me find the right nanny. Thank you Joy! read more

Joy is organized, smart, efficient and professional and passionate about childcare. She's bringing a huge body of experience with her and is a great choice if you want reliable and concerned care for your kids! read more

The Nannies Plus team is like no other. They found us a fit we never could have found on our own and much (much) more quickly than we thought possible. Their personal investment in our family exceeded our expectations -- they seem to genuinely care about *both* the family and the nanny -- and lead to a natural, grounded, healthy match we hope to continue for many years to come. After having thrown myself on the search myself and then engaging several different agencies, I cannot recommend Nannies Plus more highly. Their communication, guidance, and support is simply more personal, fine tuned, and professional than any other out there. Almost a year later, we are crazy about our nanny and our daughters are thriving in her care. read more

I've worked as a nanny for a while now...I have worked with agencies and done job hunts, but only when I handed the reigns over to Nannies Plus, did I find what I needed as a childcare provider(who's needs often go unfulfilled). It can be annoying and tiring going from interview to interview with no end in sight. Joy was able to ask me a short series of questions, basically read my mind, see into my soul, set me up with an interview, then boom-happily employed with two ideal families. After being employed, Nannies Plus continues to check in on how things are going on both ends. Joy offers solutions for some bumps that might occur, acts as an advocate for fairness, and genuinely cares about the nannies she brings in. 5++++++++ stars read more

It was the first time we were going to have a nanny and we did not even know what we exactly needed. Full-time, part-time, hours, profile, where we need help. Joy made the process very easy for us. She was flexible to pivot with us where needed as we got to better understand what we want through the interviews. We met incredible nannies, all highly-qualified but more importantly with great values and characters. We also knew they were coming with Joy's stamp of approval. Ultimately we picked the one who was a perfect fit to our situation. I would recommend Nannies Plus to all families who don't have a lot of time or bandwidth to do the rigorous search themselves and who want to work with a truly trusted advisor. read more

We were incredibly happy with our decision to utilize Joy and Nannies Plus for our nanny search. I had heard nightmares from fellow mom friends about finding a nanny in the Bay Area - from people not showing up to interviews, to losing out on their desired nanny to another family. I did not want to go through this process. Joy came over to our house to meet me, my husband, and daughter. She discussed our needs and preferences for a nanny. (outdoor play, development/learning help when she's older, light housework, some overtime) Joy was also generous and helped me find help while I was still on maternity leave from work ( a mother's help 10 hours a week so I could run errands) We hired the first nanny we met (Joy offered more options) but we knew Joy sent us the right person for our daughter and our needs. We are now 3 months into working with our nanny. Our daughter is thriving, communication is great and we also use our nanny for the occasional date night. We would recommend Nannies Plus to anyone who is interested in finding the right person for your family with less hassles and the piece of mind that you are working with a true professional read more

Joy and Nannies Plus is exactly what a nanny agency should be! Joy really cares about finding the right match - thinking about it from the perspective of the family and the nanny! We had a complex set of needs and Joy listened carefully and then helped find the right person for us. In the interim of finding the long-term person, she was able to place us with a wonderful temporary nanny. We couldn't be happier read more

I cannot express how thankful we are to nannies plus for finding us such a wonderful nanny/family assistant. I never thought we would use a agency since I'm a much more "do it yourself" type person. I didn't think it would be difficult to find help on my own. However, after hiring and firing 2 different people on care.com, wasting a ton of money/time and getting emotionally fed up, it was clear we needed help. Joy is incredibly intuitive and a great listener. I loved that she came and spent time with our family to get to know us. She really put a lot of attention and care into finding us an amazing, perfect nanny. Now we have an incredible helper in our lives and my children and myself are thriving. There is nothing like the feeling of knowing your children are being taken care of by someone who genuinely cares for them, enjoys being with them and is concerned for their welfare/development. I thought my child was shy and difficult prior to this but she took to our current nannie within days and happily goes to her and allows her to help her...even though I'm home and coming in and out of the room. It's a situation I wasn't sure would ever be possible, my dream come true. I really recommend saving the time, emotional stress and money by using nannies plus from the start. They know what they are doing! read more

If I could give Nannies Plus 10 stars I would! I can't say enough about the professionalism of this company and how much stress they took off my plate. They truly listened to what I was looking for, what was important to me, and what my fears were. They were dedicated and diligent in searching for the right fit for me, and unlike other agencies they didn't send me a bunch of candidates for me to vet myself. They sent me only nannies that were checked all the boxes I was looking for (and so much more) and the quality of the candidates were top notch. I am super excited to have my new nanny start and couldn't be happier knowing that my family is in the best possible hands. Thank you Nannies Plus!!! read more

Joy is very knowledgeable about all aspects of child care. She has helped our family out tremendously. She is dedicated, professional, organized, honest and dependable. I would recommend Joy, and Nannies Plus, to anyone I know in a heartbeat. read more

Joy was a straight up joy to work with! I had decided to be a full time Nanny but wasn't aware of the steps needed to become a true pro. Joy walked me through the steps necessary to get the certifications needed. She spent time with me to find out my strengths and areas needing improvement to match me with her clients. I understand that the crux of her business is to serve families looking for domestic help, but I truly felt she cared about me and worked very hard to find a perfect match with her clients. What I liked most about Joy was the fact that she always returned my phone calls and responded to my texts in a very timely manner. I had registered with a few Nanny placement agencies, but Joy was by far the most personable and the most professional. It was a pleasure to work with Joy and when the time comes, I will not waste my time with anyone else to find work. Thank you Joy! read more