NURSERY PRACTITIONER - BUSHEY

Step By Step Nursery; Bushey; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nursery seeks an enthusiastic early years practitioner to provide exceptional care and support for children. The role involves tasks such as safeguarding, promoting children's development, and working collaboratively with staff and parents to meet children's needs. Join a supportive team committed to quality childcare through training and professional development.

Benefits

Funding for training courses

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of the EYFS.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong partnerships with parents.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children.
• Ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness.
• Work as part of a team to support children's development and learning.

Skills

Organisational skills

Safeguarding

Child protection

Education

Recognised Early Years qualification

Job description

You will be required to provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children placed in the setting as well as to thesupport staff within the setting/team.

You will work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn, helping them tobuild and maintain strong partnerships, as well as working with parents to making sure children’s needs are met.

You will be required to read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role and the safe running of the setting and tobe aware of the high profile of the setting upholding its standards at all times, both during work hours and outside.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

Safeguarding

Advise Manager/SENCO of any concerns, e.g. over children, parents, the safety of the environment, preserving confidentiality as necessary

Keep completely confidential any information regarding the children, their families or other staff that is acquired as part of the job

Inclusion

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

Promote fairness and equality in the workplace

Have awareness of the “British values”

Work with outside agencies/professionals in the provision for additional support for the children

Health & Safety

Ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times

Be flexible within working practices of the setting, undertaking other responsible duties where needed, such as domestic tasks, preparation of snacks, meals, cleansing of equipment, etc

Contribute to carrying out daily checklists and monthly risk assessments within the room

Use the nursery equipment effectively and consider the health and safety requirements

Partnerships

Support all staff and engage in a good staff team

Develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs

Work alongside the manager and staff team to ensure that the setting’s philosophy is fulfilled

Develop your role within the team, especially with regard to being a key person

Support nursery assistants, students and volunteers

Work with other agencies in support of children as needed (see Inclusion)

Professional Development

To be involved in out of working hours activities, e.g. training, monthly staff meetings, etc

Complete 3 core training courses (1staid, safeguarding, food safety) funded by the company

Actively seek further ways of improving performance and/or qualification

Record Keeping

Effectively deliver the EYFS ensuring that the individual needs and interest of children in the setting are met (in conjunction with other team members) by planning, observations and assessments

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. (Including special books.)

QUALIFICATIONS

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Excellent knowledge of the EYFS

Excellent organisational skills

TRAINING

QUALITY CHILDCARE IS DEPENDANT ON QUALITY STAFF

We have strong beliefs in trying to promote internally and therefore encourage (and in many cases fund) employees to participate in further development and training courses to achieve excellence.

These range from in-house training to degree level qualifications.

Some of the specialist training we provide are;

Safeguarding

Working with parents

Infant & child nutrition

Child protection

Key person

Paediatric first aid

Food Safety & Hygiene

APPLY

APPLYING IS EASY!

Recruiting the rightteam members to work with and care for our children is extremely important to us and the families we look after.

All applicantsshould hold a recognised Early Years qualification or be prepared to undertake training with the support of our highly experienced training provider.

All successful candidates will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.