Duties and responsibilities:
- To work with children
- To plan, deliver and evaluate a programme of activities suitable to the age range of the children attending the setting.
- To support with the collection and drop off of school children from the local schools
- To adhere to all safeguarding policies and procedures. To report any safeguarding concerns to the designated safeguarding officer or relevant agencies (safeguarding partnership/ Lado)
- To communicate and engage with the children at all opportunities
- To take observations on the children daily
- Ensure that you are monitoring the children’s development and identifying and addressing any gaps using our Footsteps system
- Ensure that the children have opportunities to go on outings and that this is done safely, by completing a risk assessment to be approved by preschool lead or deputy manager
- Ensuring that the children have opportunities to do cooking activities and that this is done safety, by completing a risk assessment to be approved by preschool lead or deputy manager
- To attend parent review meetings alongside the deputy manager for children in your key group
- To be a key worker and prepare the children’s records and targets in your group
- To undertake certain domestic jobs within the nursery/preschool, for example, preparation of snacks, cleaning of equipment
- To record any accidents/incidents on the forms provided alongside the team leader / deputy manager, share these with parents and giving these to the administrator to log
- To be a good role model and promote a healthy lifestyle to the children
- To ensure that the environment is clean, stimulating and safe for the children
- Ensuring that the register is up to date as and when children arrive
To work as part of a team
- To attend out of working hours activities, e.g. training, staff meetings, parent’s evenings, summer fayre and Christmas activities
- To develop your role within the team
- To participate in the training programme of a wide variety of students (i.e. placements and volunteers) by giving guidance and support
- To support and engage with all staff to ensure a good team ethos and an effective working partnership with all colleagues
- To role model positive behaviour and language
- Personal and professional development
- To agree and complete all required mandatory and non-mandatory training
- To assume responsiblity of your own CPD log
- To liaise with parents, staff and other professionals
- To foresee the needs to special needs children and give physical, emotional, intellectual guidance as appropriate and liaise with the settings SENCO/manager
- To ensure children are collected on time by someone authorised by the parents to collect
Pay: £16,640.00 per year
Work Location: In person
