Overview
Nursery – Bright Horizons Banstead Day Nursery and Preschool
Location: Banstead, Surrey
Salary: From £32,864 per annum (dependent on qualification and experience)
Benefits
* Childcare discount of 50% for first child
* Enhanced parental leave: 20 days
* Annual leave: 20 days plus bank holidays and paid Christmas closure
* Ability to purchase additional leave (subject to terms and conditions)
* 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 a careers coach
* Shift options: 40 hours over 4 or 5 days
Role
As a Room Leader, you will lead, mentor, support, and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care and education, helping 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 and coach the nursery team.
* Provide high quality early years care and education.
* Ensure compliance with EYFS, safeguarding, child protection and legislative requirements.
* Maintain strong partnerships with parents/carers and professionals.
* Use a variety of communication techniques with children and adults.
* Ensure child welfare, health and safety.
* Support staff in the development and implementation of learning plans.
Qualifications
* Full and relevant Level 3 or above early years qualification.
* Previous experience in an early years setting – ideally as Room Leader, Nursery Nurse, Nursery Practitioner, Early Years Educator or similar.
* Passion for creating fun and inclusive learning environments.
* Strong understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
* Strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding, child protection and legislative requirements for working with children.
* Ability to develop trust and strong working partnerships with colleagues and parents/carers.
* Ability to use a variety of communication techniques with children and adults.
EEO Statement
Bright Horizons is an inclusive employer and welcomes people from all ages and backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.
Recruitment Policy
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.
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