Overview
As a Room Leader, you will lead, mentor, support, and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care and education, to help all children within the room to develop and meet their individual milestones. You will promote and ensure child welfare, health and safety, and safeguarding, and maintain strong partnerships with colleagues, parents, and other professionals to meet each child's needs.
Responsibilities
* Lead, mentor, support, and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care and education, helping children develop and meet their milestones.
* Promote and ensure child welfare, health and safety, and safeguarding.
* Maintain strong partnerships with colleagues, parents and other professionals to meet each child's needs.
* Work to create an inclusive learning environment that supports all children.
* Adhere to safeguarding, child protection and wider legislative requirements for working with children.
* Develop trust and strong working partnerships with both colleagues and parents/carers using a variety of communication techniques with children and adults.
* This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.
Qualifications
* Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification
* Previous experience working within an Early Years setting - ideally as a Room Leader, Nursery Nurse, Nursery Practitioner, Early Years Educator or similar
* Strong understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
* Strong knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and the wider legislative requirements for working with children
* Ability to develop trust and strong working partnerships with both colleagues and parents/carers
* Ability to use a variety of communication techniques with both children and adults
Benefits
* From £28,500 per annum
* Childcare discount of 50% for first child
* Enhanced parental leave
* 20 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and paid Christmas closure. Ability to also purchase additional leave
* Pension
* Financial and wellbeing benefits including 24/7 virtual GP appointments, early access to wages, and more
* Professional development programme access for every stage of your career, including access to a careers coach
* Shift options: 40 hours over 4 or 5 days
* Subject to T&Cs
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