Full-Time Bilingual Behavioral Specialist Nanny - Denver, CO
Start Date: ASAP
Schedule: 40–50 hours per week, including some evenings and weekends
Compensation: $38–$45/hour, DOE
Children: Multiple children ranging from toddler to school age (primary charge of two toddlers)
Language Requirement: Professional fluency in both English and Spanish
Experience Requirement: Professional experience supporting neurodivergent children is required
The Position
A warm, active family in Denver is seeking an experienced Bilingual Behavioral Specialist Nanny to join their established, fully staffed private household. This position will primarily focus on the family's younger children while working collaboratively within a larger household and childcare team.
The family is specifically seeking a professional with meaningful, hands-on experience working with neurodivergent children who understands that behavior is communication and can confidently support children with differing developmental, sensory, emotional-regulation, learning, and communication needs.
This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned childcare professional who brings together the warmth and nurturing presence of an exceptional career nanny with a strong understanding of behavioral support, emotional regulation, child development, and neurodiversity-affirming care.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a sophisticated private-home environment and understand the importance of discretion, initiative, consistency, flexibility, collaboration, and exceptional follow-through.
The family values caregivers who are warm and nurturing while also confident in establishing appropriate boundaries, maintaining consistency, encouraging independence, and giving children the tools and space to problem-solve and develop resilience.
Neurodivergent Experience Required
This is a neurodivergent household, and previous professional experience supporting neurodivergent children is a must for this position.
The family is looking for someone who understands that each child may have different learning styles, communication preferences, sensory needs, emotional-regulation needs, strengths, and challenges. The nanny should be able to meet children where they are while maintaining predictable expectations and a calm, supportive environment.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable:
Recognizing behavioral cues and understanding the needs that may be driving a child's behavior
Supporting emotional regulation and co-regulation
Navigating transitions, frustration, sensory sensitivities, and big emotions
Maintaining clear, predictable boundaries and expectations
Using proactive strategies to help prevent dysregulation when possible
Adjusting communication and caregiving approaches based on the individual child
Encouraging independence, confidence, resilience, and age-appropriate problem-solving
Remaining calm, grounded, and consistent during challenging moments
Collaborating with parents, other caregivers, teachers, therapists, behavioral specialists, or other professionals involved in a child's care
Implementing established behavioral or developmental strategies consistently within the home
Candidates with professional backgrounds in behavioral support, special education, developmental care, therapeutic childcare, behavioral therapy, or similar fields are strongly encouraged to apply.
Bilingual Household
This is a bilingual household, and maintaining the children's Spanish-language skills is an important priority for the family.
Full professional fluency in both English and Spanish is required. The nanny should be able to communicate naturally, confidently, and consistently with the children in Spanish throughout the day.
Conversational or basic Spanish proficiency will not be sufficient for this role.
The Ideal Nanny
The family is looking for a true career nanny or behavioral childcare professional with substantial experience supporting children within private households.
Their ideal nanny will be:
Professionally fluent in both Spanish and English
Experienced working with neurodivergent children — this is required
Knowledgeable about behavioral support, emotional regulation, sensory needs, and child development
An experienced career nanny, behavioral specialist, special education professional, or similar childcare professional
Experienced in professional private-family environments
Experienced working in staffed private households, or highly comfortable collaborating within a household team
Montessori trained or highly experienced with Montessori philosophies
Warm, nurturing, confident, patient, and emotionally intelligent
Able to maintain a calm and regulated presence during challenging behaviors or emotionally heightened situations
Skilled at balancing empathy and validation with consistency and appropriate boundaries
Highly organized, proactive, and able to anticipate the needs of the children and household
Discreet and respectful of the family's privacy
Team-oriented and comfortable collaborating with other childcare and household professionals
Comfortable implementing strategies established by parents, therapists, behavioral professionals, or other members of a child's care team
Consistent and detail-oriented when following established routines and expectations
Comfortable caring for children across multiple ages, from toddler through school age
Confident transporting children to and from school, activities, appointments, therapies, and outings
Flexible and comfortable with some evening and weekend availability
Passionate about encouraging independence and allowing children to work through age-appropriate challenges and frustrations
Creative and engaged, with an emphasis on outdoor play, reading, crafts, imaginative play, and low-screen care
Comfortable providing thoughtful, age-appropriate hygiene, skincare, haircare, and personal care for young children
Able to take ownership of responsibilities from beginning to end without requiring frequent reminders or follow-up
The family particularly values someone who understands how to support a child's nervous system without removing every challenge or frustration. They want their children to feel safe, understood, and supported while continuing to develop independence, coping skills, confidence, flexibility, and resilience.
Responsibilities
The nanny's primary responsibility will be providing exceptional, individualized, developmentally appropriate care for the family's children while supporting the larger childcare team as needed.
Responsibilities will include:
Providing individualized care based on each child's developmental, behavioral, emotional, and sensory needs
Supporting emotional regulation and helping children navigate big feelings, frustration, and transitions
Implementing consistent behavioral and developmental strategies within the home
Identifying patterns, triggers, and strategies that help children successfully navigate their routines
Collaborating with parents and other professionals regarding behavioral, developmental, and emotional goals
Creating engaging, developmentally appropriate activities and outings
Supporting Montessori-inspired learning and independence within the home
Facilitating reading, crafts, outdoor play, imaginative play, and other low-screen activities
Maintaining predictable routines and smooth transitions throughout the day
Preparing children's meals and snacks
Driving children to activities, school, appointments, therapies, and outings as needed
Supporting age-appropriate social, emotional, behavioral, and developmental milestones
Following detailed care instructions and family-established routines
Maintaining children's hygiene, skincare, haircare, and other personal-care routines
Properly caring for and styling young children's hair
Following specific personal-care or aftercare instructions when applicable
Cleaning up completely after activities, meals, and play
Resetting children's spaces before transitioning to the next part of the day
Treating stains on children's clothing before items are passed along to the housekeeping team
Maintaining children's belongings and helping keep their spaces organized
Communicating proactively and professionally with parents and fellow household staff
Assisting with the family's other children when needed
Helping the childcare and household teams operate cohesively
Working Within a Staffed Household
This is an established, fully staffed private household, and the nanny will work collaboratively with other childcare and household professionals.
The nanny will not be responsible for deep cleaning or general household laundry. However, the family expects every member of the childcare team to take complete ownership of the spaces, belongings, and activities they are responsible for throughout the day.
This includes cleaning up after the children, resetting play and meal spaces, treating stains before clothing is handed off for laundry, maintaining children's belongings, and ensuring childcare activities do not create unnecessary additional work for other members of the household staff.
The ideal candidate will naturally notice what needs to be done and take initiative. They will understand that success within a staffed private household requires excellent communication, discretion, collaboration, flexibility, mutual respect, and follow-through.
Household Pet
The family has a large dog in the home. Candidates should be comfortable working around a large family dog and respectful of established pet boundaries and routines. Pet care is not a primary responsibility of this position.
Compensation & Benefits
The family is committed to offering a highly competitive professional compensation package reflective of the specialized experience required for this position, including:
$38–$45/hour, depending on experience and qualifications
Approximately 40–50 working hours per week
35 guaranteed hours per week
Paid time off
Paid sick time
Double pay for holidays worked
Mileage reimbursement
Health, dental & vision insurance
401(k)
Candidates with extensive behavioral or neurodivergent childcare experience, particularly those who have successfully worked as a behavioral specialist nanny or in high-level private households, will be considered toward the higher end of the compensation range.
Who Will Thrive in This Role?
This is an exceptional opportunity for a highly experienced childcare professional who wants to combine career nannying with behavioral and developmental expertise.
The right candidate will genuinely understand neurodivergent children and recognize that successful caregiving is not about expecting every child to respond to the same approach. They will be observant enough to recognize what each child needs, experienced enough to adapt their approach, and confident enough to maintain consistency and appropriate expectations.
Someone who thrives on structure, notices the little details, remains calm during challenging moments, respects privacy, enjoys collaborating with other professionals, and takes pride in providing thoughtful, individualized care will excel in this position.
The family is especially interested in someone who views childcare as their long-term profession and brings the behavioral expertise, maturity, discretion, confidence, patience, and initiative expected within a sophisticated private household.
For the right candidate, this is an opportunity to become a trusted and valued member of a professional household team while making a meaningful impact on the children's emotional, behavioral, and developmental growth.
