General Duties To be fully responsible for the children in your care, providing a consistently safe, secure, and stimulating environment. To provide a wide range of enjoyable, stimulating, and educational activities for a group of children, covering all aspects of the child's individual development by the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). To be a key person (if allocated a group by the Nursery Manager) building a strong attachment and knowing your key children well as individuals. To maintain required records of childrens development, learning and activities.
To work alongside the nursery SENDco to support children with additional needs ensuring that their development is promoted as fully as possible. Ensure that all policies and procedures are adhered to and if there are any concerns, problems or issues these are escalated appropriately to the Duty Manager and/or the management team. Promoting a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene standards through monitoring and supervising nappy changing/toilet and washing procedures, regular cleaning of toys and equipment, the cleaning of childrens crockery and bedding. Assist in the preparation and serving of food and supervision of meal times.
To exercise a duty of care for work colleagues and to be responsible for ensuring a safe working environment for all children, staff and visitors. You will plan and carry out a variety of fun activities with the children in line with the Early Years curriculum. You are also responsible for evaluating the activities, and for maintaining online learning journals via Tapestry.To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents.