Whether you are just starting your career as a nanny or have many years of experience, once you take up a new position you will want to focus on getting to know the children, establishing a routine and developing a good working relationship with your new employers. Your job is challenging enough without distractions over basic employment matters such as the exact working hours and how they are paid, when you get your holiday, and so on.
But even if you are not given an actual contract on the first day of your new job, from a legal perspective your contract is considered to have started as soon as you walk through the door of your workplace, and your employer must at least give you a verbal description of your job when it starts.
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