Room leader

Staff Match; St Albans; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In house training

Uniform

Pension

Career development

Job summary

Staff Match is recruiting an inspirational Room Leader for a beautiful nursery in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The role requires strong team building, communication, and organisational skills to lead the room and guide apprentices.

You will work 40 hours per week, implement the EYFS curriculum with age-appropriate activities, carry out daily risk assessments, and build positive relationships with families while ensuring safeguarding and health & safety policies are followed.

Qualifications

• NVQ level 3 Childcare qualification or equivalent.
• Good working knowledge of EYFS curriculum and planning.
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate desirable.
• Paediatric First Aid desirable.

Responsibilities

• Leading by example and directing room staff and apprentices, ensuring correct adult/child ratios are maintained.
• Carry out daily risk assessments and ensure children are cared for in a safe stimulating environment.
• Key worker responsibilities and ensuring each individual child learning and development needs are met.
• Build positive relationships with families and careers.
• Attend monthly staff meetings, nursery open days, training as required.
• Work 40 hours per week.
• Work with EYFS curriculum and provide age appropriate activities.
• Ensure all staff understand and work to the nursery Safeguarding and Health & Safety policy and procedures.
• Partnership working with parents and careers.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Organisation

Education

NVQ level 3 Childcare qualification or equivalent

Job description

Staff Match are recruiting an inspirational Room Leader to join a beautiful nursery in St ALbans, Hertfordshire. The ideal candidate must have excellent team building, communication and organisational skills.

Person Specification:

• NVQ level 3 Childcare qualification or equivalent
• Good working knowledge of EYFS curriculum and planning
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate (Desirable)
• Paediatric First Aid (Desirable)

Some of the Room Leader responsibilities will include:

• Leading by example and directing room staff and apprentices, ensuring correct adult/child ratios are maintained.
• To carry out daily risk assessments and ensure children are cared for in a safe stimulating environment.
• Key worker responsibilities and ensuring each individual child learning and development needs are met.
• Building positive relationships with families and careers.
• To attend monthly staff meetings, nursery open days, training as required.
• To work 40 hours per week.
• Working with EYFS curriculum and providing age appropriate activities.
• Ensuring all staff understand and work to the nursery Safeguarding and Health & Safety policy and procedures.
• Partnership working with parents and careers.

Benefits:

• In house training, uniform, genuine career development, pension.

Due to the nature of this job, candidates will be subject to UK eligibility checks together with Enhance Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks