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Early Years Nursery Nurse Practitioner
The closing date is 09 July 2025
Hunnitots Day Nursery at Ipswich Hospital are looking for an Early Years Practitioner to join the nursery team to provide care for children aged 4 months to 5 yrs.
Hunnitots Day Nursery, based at Ipswich Hospital has approximately 70 and 80 children booked in each day. Parents have a choice of in excess of 10 different sessions within the hours of 7 am to 6 pm. The choice provided aims to accommodate the variety of staff working patterns at Ipswich Hospital (part of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust).
We are looking for someone with excellent communication and listening skills to plan the day and respond to the different needs of the children we teach.
You will be enthusiastic and well organised, and have a Childcare qualification at level 2 or level 3.
Main duties of the job
* To care for the physical and emotional needs of each child, showing an understanding of children's needs in the early years.
* To help create a happy and loving atmosphere in which each child can develop as an individual, through play and learning life skills.
* To create and develop a stimulating environment to meet the needs of individual children, being aware of the needs of different age groups in line with The Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS).
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job responsibilities
For full details of theresponsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NNEB/ BTEC or NVQ level 3 or equivalent
* Child Safeguarding Training
* First Aid training
* SENCO training
Experience
* Experience of working with children aged 4 months to 5 years of age
* Have experience of working in day care setting
Knowledge and Skills
* Child development
* Planning for individual children
* Group activities
* Able to demonstrate a commitment to Trust Values
* Understand child's SENCO needs
* Understanding of the EYFS curriculum
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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