findababysitter.com.au is Australia's most trusted babysitter and nanny job site, helping parents find reliable babysitters, nannies and carers online for over 20 years.
We’re Jeff and Delia, a Melbourne-based husband and wife team and, most importantly, parents.
Built by parents, for parents
We first created Find A Babysitter back in 2005, when we had two children under two (yes…a bit hectic!). Like many Australian families, we were juggling work, childcare shortages, long daycare waitlists and very little family support.
Delia was returning to work as a speech pathologist, and we relied heavily on babysitters and nannies for work, for the odd date night, and frankly, to stay sane.
Finding a babysitter or nanny back then was stressful. Agencies were expensive. Ads in newspapers were unreliable. Yet we knew great babysitters were out there - we just needed a better way to connect with them.
So we built what didn’t exist in Australia at the time: an affordable, online babysitter and nanny introduction site that allowed parents to recruit carers directly.
And Find A Babysitter was born.
A trusted Australian babysitting platform
Parents embraced the idea, and Find A Babysitter grew quickly. One of our proudest moments was winning the National Telstra Micro Business Award, recognising how the platform was helping Australian families.
A few years later, as our children grew older, we made the decision to sell the business.
But the story didn’t end there.
We sold it, bought it back & added an App!
In 2021, we discovered the site was ready for a new owner. We jumped at the chance to bring it home.
We bought Find A Babysitter back, refreshed the platform, improved the experience for parents and babysitters, and relaunched it - staying true to the values it was built on:
trust, transparency, affordability and real human support.
Today our kids are growing up, but we’re still deeply connected to the realities of family life and we continue to run Find A Babysitter ourselves. No offshore call centres. No faceless corporation. Just real people behind the scenes.
Why parents trust Find A Babysitter
Over the years, we’ve heard thousands of stories from parents seeing their babysitter become a valued part of the family - helping with newborns, school pick-ups, after-school care, evenings out and everything in between.
That’s exactly why we love what we do.
Our mission is simple:
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Help parents find trusted babysitters and nannies in Australia
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Make the process simple, transparent and affordable
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Support families through every stage - from newborns to teens
We’re proud to be Australia’s first, most experienced and trusted babysitter and nanny job site, and even prouder to still be running it as a hands-on, Australian, family business.
If Find A Babysitter makes your life just a little easier, then we’ve done our job.
We look forward to helping you.
Jeff & Delia
Founders, Find A Babysitter
