Job Title: Early Years Practitioner
Responsible to: Room Leader/Nursery Manager
Hours : Full Time
Salary: TBC
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
· To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare, wellbeing and safety are our primary priority
· To ensure and maintain the highest standard of care is delivered across all areas of our children’s development – Socially, Physically, Intellectually and Emotionally
· To support all other team members within the allocated room in addition to the wider nursery environment
· To work as an integral part of a valued team to provide an enabling environment for all children to play, learn and develop
Key Areas:
· Work with and support children
· Record all information correctly
· To competently use the Nursery’s Famly software to carry out observations and assessments
· Work as part of a dynamic team
· Build and maintain strong partnerships with parents
Main Duties:
· To follow and be consistently up to date with the nursery safeguarding procedure, ensuring all children are kept safe, healthy and secure
· To share knowledge and experience to support other team members and ensure all individuals work within a consistent system to deliver the highest quality of care
· To keep records of individual key children’s development and learning journeys, making effective use of the Nursery’s Famly programme, ensuring parents are always considered as partners
· To share with Room Leader/Nursery Manager the early identification and intervention for children who may potentially have special educational needs, ensuring all areas of development can be successfully met; adapting activities to meet every individual child’s specific requirements
· Attend all staff training days
· Ensure all record keeping is completed, stored correctly and is all up to date
· Ensure daily room checks and outdoor checks are carried out thoroughly
· Liaise effectively with parents/carers and provide support when necessary
· Liaise with other professionals and other professionals outside of the Nursery
· To attend training, monthly staff meetings, parent’s evenings and any other outside nursery events
· Undertake various domestic jobs within the nursery – preparation of snack, lunch supervision, ensuring the nursery is always fit for purpose and is always left clean and tidy
· Work closely with any students or volunteers, supporting them with their training programme and providing guidance and support
· Work alongside all other team members effectively, particularly the Room Leader to ensure the nursery’s philosophy is always implemented and achieved
· Read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures, ensuring all other team members have a full understanding of these and they are adhered to and effectively implemented
· Ensure the highest standards of hygiene, safety and cleanliness, within the designated area and the nursery as a whole
· Ensure that the correct procedures are followed when children are brought to and collected from the Nursery
· To maintain the highest level of confidentiality in all aspects of the Nursery setting
· To carefully follow the Nursery’s Accident and First Aid Procedure and record all information correctly
Specific Childcare Tasks:
· Reporting any concerns regarding a child’s welfare to the Nursery Manager and ensure that the correct safeguarding procedures are strictly followed
· To support, facilitate and implement the preparation and completion of activities based around The Early Years Foundation Stage to support every individual child’s learning and development
· To organise the room’s lunch time and ensure ratios are always maintained.
· Ensuring lunch times are a time of pleasant and social sharing and interaction
· Promoting the highest standard of hygiene for children, ensuring good regular handwashing procedures are in place
· Washing and changing children as required
· Ensuring any child who is poorly is kept calm, warm and supported and the Nursery procedure for ‘Sick Children’ is implemented
· To develop and maintain strong relationships with parents and carers to facilitate a high standard of care both at home and within the nursery setting
· Enabling and adapting all environments to ensure care is facilitated for children who may have disabilities or any other additional needs
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £8.75-£13.00 per hour
Benefits:
Schedule:
Education:
- Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: QBDN/EYP
