Jobs4mothers.com, a recruitment website aimed at helping professional women find family-friendly jobs, has been launched.

The website current has more than 500 women registered with it and more than 100 jobs have been posted.

The site is the brainchild of West London women Selina Smith and Kristina Abdat, who decided to start their own business after talking to other mothers outside the school gates and finding that many were highly qualified but struggling to find flexible jobs that utilised their skills.

Smith said: “We feel mothers are a great invisible workforce, reliable, mature, and hard working with tremendous skills - they are an untapped pool of highly trained and skilled workers.”