We are looking for a Nursery Practitioner to join our beautiful new nursery.
Lilyhowe nursery is our sister nursery to lambkins Day Nursery. We specialise in providing outstanding and inspiring opportunities for our children. We endeavour to create a safe and enriching home-from-home environment that is filled with opportunities to learn and develop, enabling for the children to develop at their own pace and reach their full potential.
We are looking for someone with a shared ambition to ensure that children have an experience of childhood filled with fun, laughter, friendship, and discovery. And this shared ambition empowers them to create the building blocks for future success in school and beyond, preparing children to flourish in our ever-changing world.
What we can Offer You:
You will be embraced and appreciated for your individual talents and accomplishments, and you will love the sense of team, inclusion and belonging, empowering you to bring your unique perspective and personality to work.
Your career progression, happiness, and wellbeing is paramount. We will endeavour to support you through our regular supervisions and support network within the setting.
Safer Recruitment commitment
We will follow our robust recruitment procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children in our care. This includes:
- An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- In-depth reference checks, including a reference from your most recent employer
- Comprehensive vetting during the selection process in line with Safer Recruitment in Education guidelines
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory background checks.
What You Will Be Rewarded With:
- Excellent rates of pay
- Flexible benefits, meaning that you can tailor your benefits package to align with what matters most to you.
- Extra holiday allowance for birthdays and ability to build up flexi- time.
- Travel support fund
- Genuine investment throughout every stage of your career, with the opportunity to complete relevant qualifications and professional development.
- free childcare
- Appreciation rewards individual and team based.
- Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities and amenities.
- Government Incentive: £1,000 New‑Starter Bonus As part of the UK Government’s Early Years Financial Incentive pilot, eligible new starters (or returning practitioners after a 6‑month break) working with children (70%+ direct care time) may receive a tax‑free £1,000 bonus shortly after joining the sector .
MAIN DUTIES:
Below is a list of tasks and responsibilities that you are obliged to fulfil in your role as a Nursery Practitioner:
- To assist in providing a safe, supportive and caring environment for young children in the care of Lilyhowe Day Nursery & Pre-School Centre; to ensure that all aspects of each individual child’s development are given full consideration.
· To follow the settings ethos in providing children with new and exciting opportunities in regard to the Reggio Emilia Approach.
- To ensure that clean and hygienic standards are always maintained. This includes daily cleaning rotas, nappy changing and other nursery/housekeeping duties.
- To maintain and always follow all Health and Safety policies and procedures.
- To develop a thorough knowledge of all of the company’s operational policies and procedures; ensuring that they are followed and respected at all times.
- To be fully up to date with the requirements of the “Early Years Foundation Stage” and ensure that your practice meets and aims to exceed the requirements.
- To be proactive in the process of activity planning, child observation and development records on a regular basis and as requested by your supervisor and Nursery Manager.
- To follow all routines, duties, timetables, rotas, record keeping activities and any other reasonable duty as requested by your supervisor or Nursery Manager.
- To ensure that communication with children, parents and the staff team is always polite and courteous .
- To share relevant information and ensure that information passed between parents and staff is communicated to your supervisor/Nursery Manager as appropriate.
- To be an effective key person to those children assigned to you and to take on other assigned responsibilities, as requested and advised by your supervisor in line with knowledge and experience.
- To maintain confidentiality about all issues related to children and their families; you’re own and other staff members issues and any other management or operational issues.
- Involvement and enrollment in company training courses to be undertaken and completed which may, at various times, be outside normal working hours.
- To be involved in developing and delivering a stimulating and creative atmosphere within the group.
- To understand and respect the need for consistency of care for the children – report for duty on time, maintain regular attendance, give appropriate notice of holiday requests and report nonattendance through sickness promptly and appropriately.
- To provide staff cover within the nursery group periodically, as requested by the Management team.
- To attend all mandatory training sessions and workshops (as advised by your manager).
- To attend staff meetings, professional development training and any other events as requested by your Nursery Manager.
- To support and mentor colleagues who are studying for NVQ childcare qualifications.
- To maintain the children’s safety always when on out of nursery visits and walks including weekly forest school.
- To work with children with additional needs and be able to provide the appropriate level of care for the individual
- To carry out any other reasonable additional duties as requested by your supervisor and/or Nursery Manager from time to time.
- To take responsibility for continued professional development by attending courses (in-house and external), receiving constructive feedback and reading relevant material.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
