Early Years Practitioner

Community Family Services Ltd; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Community Family Services Ltd is recruiting an Early Years Practitioner to provide high-quality care and learning under the EYFS framework. You will work with a dedicated team to create a safe, nurturing environment where children can play, develop and learn.

Key responsibilities include maintaining developmental records, planning activities to meet individual needs, supporting staff, and building strong partnerships with parents and carers to support every child’s progress.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the EYFS to meet individual children's needs with the support of the team.
• Keep accurate records of each child’s development and share with parents.
• Prepare written planning sheets reflecting children’s developmental needs.
• Support all staff and engage in a collaborative, effective team.
• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with parents and carers.
• Maintain a high-quality environment responsive to each child’s needs and backgrounds.
• Read and adhere to all policies, safeguarding and confidentiality requirements.

Job description

• The role of the Early Years Practitioner is to provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting
• To give support to staff within the setting.
• To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.
• To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children's needs to be met.

Responsible to: Nursery Manager/Deputy Manager/Directors Main Duties:

• To effectively deliver the EYFS ensuring that the individual needs and interest of children in the setting are met (in conjunction with other team members)
• To keep records of your key children's development and learning journeys and share with parents, carers and other key adults in the child's life.
• To prepare written planning sheets that reflect the children's developmental needs
• Support all staff and engage in a good staff team.
• To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs.
• To ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children having an awareness of any disabilities, family cultures and medical histories.
• To advise manager/deputy of any concerns, e.g. over children, parents, the safety of the environment, preserving confidentiality as necessary.
• To be involved in out of working hours activities, e.g. training, monthly staff meetings, summer fayre,etc
• To be flexible within working practices of the setting, undertaking other responsible duties where needed, such as domestic tasks, preparation of snack meals, cleaning, cleansing of equipment, etc.
• To work alongside the manager/deputy and staff team to ensure that the setting's philosophy is fulfilled.
• To read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role and the safe running of the setting.
• To develop your role within the team, especially with regard to being a key person
• To keep completely confidential any information regarding the children, their families or other staff that is acquired as part of the job.
• To be aware of the high profile of the setting and to uphold its standards at all times, both in work hours and outside.
• To support management, Staff, students and volunteers.
• To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.
• To undertake and lead on additional responsibilities such as SENCO, training co-ordinator, safeguarding Officer etc

The duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added. This job description may be reviewed in the future.