The Beaconsfield Day Nursery and Pre-School
Nursery Lunch Cover
15 hours per week hours per week
Beaconsfield Day Nursery is a welcoming and vibrant nursery nestled in the heart of Beaconsfield. Conveniently located with easy access from the A335 and close to the M40 junction, we also offer ample onsite and street parking. Additionally, the nursery is just a short distance from Beaconsfield Train Station, making it easily accessible for our dedicated team.
Our nursery features spacious, bright, and airy rooms, along with a large, fully equipped garden complete with a mud kitchen. Each room has direct access to the garden, with a separate area specifically for our baby room. We pride ourselves on offering a rich variety of extracurricular activities and regular outings in the local community, providing children with engaging opportunities for imaginative and real-world play to foster their growth and development.
We are currently seeking a Nursery Lunch Cover to join our team. This full-time role offers 15 hours per week, with a shift pattern of 11:30am - 2:30pm Please note that this is a full-year position, as the nursery operates year-round, and is not term-time only.
Why Join Us?
At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
Referral programme: Refer a friend and earn upto £750
Employee Childcare Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team member's
Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays
Health and Wellbeing Programme: Confidential employee assistance helpline available
Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
Excellent Transport Links and Free Onsite Parking
As an Lunch Cover, you will:
Provide engaging and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times.
Understand the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS and staff: child ratios.
Ensure children are supervised and attended to at all times, maintaining appropriate staff: child ratios.
Provide the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development.
Essential Criteria - Qualifications/Experience:
Full and relevant Level 3 Childcare Qualification - Desirable
Over 1 years' experience working in Early Years - Desirable
Sound knowledge of Ofsted expectations to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating - Desirable
Knowledge of the statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - Desirable
Fluent in written and spoken to English - Essential
* Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Prevent Duty.
The Beaconsfield Day Nursery and Preschool is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.