Use a friendly approach with parents and carers, children, and colleagues to provide a safe, stimulating, and educational environment for the children to learn, play, explore, and develop. Maintain a homely environment that is clean and organised. Implement interesting and inspiring activities that teach through play. Build relationships with key children, record their interests and achievements through observations, and ensure you understand and follow company policies and procedures. Safeguarding is a shared responsibility to protect children, parents, and staff from harm. Maintain strictly professional relationships and report any complaints or concerns to management in accordance with company policy and procedures.
Responsibilities
* Attend and actively participate in staff meetings, training, parent information sessions, and functions as appropriate, including marketing events and activities that may run during the evening or at the weekend.
* Treat all personal and sensitive information relating to staff, children, families, visitors, nursery, or the company with utmost integrity and confidentiality.
* Undertake any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the nursery, and the safety and wellbeing of children, staff and families.
Qualifications
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.
* Excellent organisational ability and attention to detail.
* Provide outstanding customer service.
* Good time management and meeting deadlines.
* A commitment to working within Early Years Childcare.
* Desirable: Previous nursery experience.
Join the Kindred Family - A Place to Grow, Thrive, and Make a Difference. Are you passionate about early years education, supporting children's development, and working in a role where you can have fun, be creative, and help develop little minds? At Kindred, we believe work should be more than just a job - it should be a place where you feel valued, supported, and inspired every day. Due to a new opportunity, we're excited to welcome a Nursery Assistant to our friendly and dedicated team in Kindred Windmill, London, W9 2EH.
Salary: £12.21 - £12.50 gross per hour (£25,592.16 - £25,675 full time equivalent salary for 40 hours per week all year round). Benefits include Birthday Off, 6 fully paid sick days, Cashback Healthcare Plan, Retail Discounts, Recognition & Reward, 50% Childcare Discount, 24/7 Virtual GP Access, 24/7 Counselling Support, Discounted gym Membership, Personal Financial Advisor Access, Pension Discovery, Learning platform Access, and Career Development.
Recruitment Process
* Rolling interviews.
* Expected start date: ASAP.
* Process includes a video interview followed by a face‑to‑face interview with a stay‑and‑play session at the nursery.
* Stay and Play session to observe you working with children.
* Background checks, references, DBS, and qualification verification will be carried out in accordance with our Safer Recruitment Policy.
Kindred is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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