Role purpose
To work as an effective member of the nursery team delivering flexible, high quality, education and care that meets the needs of young children and their families. With guidance, ensure compliance with all company policies, Health and Safety legislations, Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, and requirements as laid down by the Government and regulated by Ofsted.
Accountable to
Room Leader, Assistant Room Leader, Deputy Manager and Nursery Manager (as appropriate)
Accountabilities
· Develop high quality interactions, which extend children's learning and thinking.
· To plan, prepare and participate in a range of activities that promotes each child's physical intellectual and emotional needs to enable each child to reach their full potential.
· To ensure that the planned activities comes from the children's next steps, observations and interests, as the EYFS framework requires.
· Ensure that the environment is well set out and that resources are excitingly presented and accessible.
· Supervise meals and mealtimes ensuring they are a time of pleasant social sharing. To ensure all staff sit and interact with their key children where possible to make this a sociable time.
· To encourage where appropriate all children to use cutlery, serve themselves and sit at the tables during meal and snack times as an important element of planning to support learning and development.
· To help children acquire self-help skills, including dressing, feeding, toilet training and an awareness of personal hygiene as an important element of planning to support learning and development.
· To act as key person for a group of children, by observing, monitoring and accurately recording each child's individual development.
· Ensure that all your key children have an accurate up to date record of their learning and achievements.
· Implement positive management of children's behaviour.
· Be proactive in the use of reflective practice to help develop and improve own practice and working environment.
· Provide a good role model for students and voluntaries.
· Contribute to the development and maintenance of effective relationships with parents and other agencies.
· To support the transitions throughout the nursery and to mainstream school.
· To assist in the daily domestic management of the nursery, including ensuring that the nursery is kept safe, secure and clean at all times. Be prepared to help where needed in preparation of snack, meals, cleaning of equipment and doing laundry etc.
· To work in partnership with fellow colleagues to create an effective nursery team and be fully involved in all activities associated with the nursery.
· Preparation, care, cleanliness and maintenance of the playrooms and equipment. To clean up after activities ensuring equipment is stored properly.
· To work under supervision to maintain records and documentation that complies with statutory requirements.
· To be aware and comply with Nursery's child protection policy, confidentiality procedures and other Nursery Policies and procedures.
· In consultation with Room Manager, Assistant Room Manager assist in identifying suitable care plans when accommodating children with special educational needs.
· To ensure that quality handovers are given to parents on collection in accordance with collection procedures.
· To share in the responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in the nursery.
· To ensure that all cleaning records are written and filed for evidence.
· To report and record all accidents, incidents and to be aware of all risk assessments within the nursery.
· To implement the necessary Health and Safety, fire, accident and emergency procedures in accordance with Sandy Tots policies.
· To report any signs of illness, neglect or apparently non accidental injury directly to the Room supervisor/ Assistant or a senior member of the management team.
· Providing comfort and warmth to a poorly child, ensuring that the senior team is made aware of the child's progress.
· To assist in the organisation of the room and help to ensure that the staff/child ratios are maintained at all times.
· To liaise with colleagues when finishing a shift, advising them of any information that is to be relayed to parents when the child is collected from nursery.
· To attend staff meeting as arranged by the room supervisors and senior nursery team. Participate in regular parent's evening, open weekends and children outings.
· Keep up to date with developments in childcare through regular training as appropriate.
· Ensure that practices fully embrace the company's equality of opportunity policy at all times. To ensure that everyone is treated as an individual with respect and full consideration.
· Ensure that the requirements of children with learning difficulties and/or disabilities are fully supported via appropriate programmes.
· To assist in the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children from differing cultures and religious backgrounds.
· To assist in the provision of a high-quality environment.
· Ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times in relation to all information.
You may be required to perform duties appropriate to the post, other than those given in the job specification. The particular duties and responsibilities attached to the post may also be varied without changing the general character of the duties to the level of responsibility entailed. As a result of the variations, it will be necessary to update the job specification from time to time.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: From £12.21 per hour
Expected hours: 16 – 40 per week
Benefits:
* Company pension
* On-site parking
Work Location: In person