Lunch Cover Assistant

Happy Days Nurseries; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A children's nursery in Portsmouth is seeking a Lunch Cover Assistant to join their team for 25 hours a week, Monday to Friday. The role involves supporting children's care and education, embodying SHINE values, and ensuring compliance with policies. The ideal candidate will have experience in childcare and a positive, nurturing attitude. The salary is up to £12.71 per hour, with opportunities for training and career progression.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Childcare discount

Employee Assistance Programmes

Qualifications

• Experience in a childcare setting preferred.
• Knowledge of child development and safeguarding policies.
• Ability to create a positive and nurturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Support children's care and development needs as a key person.
• Embody SHINE values in daily interactions.
• Plan and prioritize work effectively.
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures.

Skills

Childcare

Teamwork

Communication

Planning and prioritization

Initiative

Job description

Dolls House Nursery, Part of the Happy Days Nursery Group, is seeking a Lunch Cover Assistant to join our team 25 hours a week Monday to Friday, all year round. As Lunch Cover Assistant you will play a vital role in helping us inspire the future for our children, by offering them the very best care and education using our unique curriculum "Where Children Shine". Your roles and responsibilities as Lunch Cover Assistant would include performance.

Responsibilities

• Embodying our SHINE values (Support, Honesty, Inspiration, Nurturing and Empowerment) in everything you do
• Supporting the effective running on the nursery by being organised, and having the ability to plan and prioritise your work
• Being positive, confident and honest
• Having great initiative and a "can do" attitude
• Knowing and upholding our policies, procedures and established working practices
• Being a "key person" for a group of children, ensuring that their care and development needs are being met at all times
• Using our unique curriculum to observe, plan and assess children's learning opportunities
• Outstanding Childcare
• Understanding and implementing safeguarding, health and safety and welfare requirement policies and practices
• Be a dedicated team player, and valuing the experience and skills of your colleagues
• Continuously striving to work together to deliver the very best care and education for the children
• Supporting colleagues with empathy and care
• Ongoing training, development and career progression opportunities
• A supportive and nurturing management structure, who take pride in our team and our people
• Family friendly working - with flexible working patterns and childcare discount
• Employee Assistance Programmes to support colleagues
• Salary up to £12.71 per hour.

Our teams, whether in our nurseries or our support centre SHINE, ensure we are delivering outstanding childcare to every child in our settings every day, this helps to make Happy Days a great place to work.

By ensuring we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues, who are representative of the communities within which our nurseries sits, we get the best opportunity to continue to deliver outstanding childcare.

Happy Days Nurseries are committed to the safety and wellbeing of the children in our care; as such, the successful post holder will be required to undergo a robust vetting process, including an enhanced DBS Check and Reference History Checks.