Room Lead - First Steps Day Nursery

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Nursery Room Leader for its Day Nursery in Slough. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a team in delivering high-quality early years education. The successful candidate will be passionate about child development and committed to creating an inclusive, safe environment for learning. Competitive development opportunities and a supportive team await you in this rewarding position.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year experience in Early Years Room Lead role.
• Good understanding of safeguarding and child protection procedures.
• Engage in continuous updating of own skills and knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead role in planning and delivering high-quality learning experiences.
• Create a safe, stimulating, and nurturing environment.
• Support and guide colleagues while monitoring children's progress.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

IT skills

Education

Early Years Level 3 Ofqual Approved Qualification

Level 3 Safeguarding Certificate

Foundation Degree in Early Years

Paediatric First Aid certificate

Job description

Job Overview

First Steps Day Nursery based in the grounds of Wexham Park Hospital provides high quality care and education to children aged between 3 months to 5 years. We are open Monday to Friday between 07:00am and 17:30pm for 51 weeks of the year. Our setting is spacious, set over one floor with a lovely outdoor area, which the children can access easily throughout the day.

We are a friendly and inclusive team, who are very passionate and focused in our vision of children learning through play. This is implemented through continuous provision, In the moment planning, and the statutory requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

As a Nursery Room Leader working with us, you can expect excellent training and development as well as a caring and passionate place to work.

Shift patterns entail 8 hour daily shifts Monday to Friday from 6.30am to 5.30pm totalling 37.5 hours a week.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Nursery Practitioner with a Level 3 Early Years qualification to step into the role of Room Lead in our Preschool room, starting in October. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with previous leadership experience or someone ready to develop their leadership skills in a supportive environment.

You will take a lead role in planning and delivering high-quality learning experiences that support children's individual development and well-being in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). You will be responsible for creating a safe, stimulating, and nurturing environment, promoting positive relationships with children, parents, and the wider team.

As Room Lead, you will support and guide your colleagues, role-modelling good practice and ensuring routines and activities are child-centred and inclusive. You will monitor children's progress, contribute to planning meetings, and complete accurate observations and records.

We are looking for someone who is proactive, approachable, creative, and passionate about providing outstanding early years care and education. Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Gained Early Years Level 3 Ofqual Approved Qualification
• Level 3 Safeguarding Certificate
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Foundation Degree in Early Years
• Paediatric First Aid certificate
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• EYFS Observation, Assessment and Planning Structures.
• Minimum of one year experience in Early Years Room Lead role-using reflection to analyse/evaluate and develop/improve practice (own-others
• Good understanding of Safeguarding and Child Protection Procedures.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Early Years Policies and Procedures
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good level of experience in this role and in implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage for children from birth to five
• Have good communication skills with both adults and children
• Good IT skills
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Engage in continuous updating of own skills and knowledge.
• Committed to attending staff meetings/training after nursery hours.
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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