Shardlow Hall Day Nursery is searching for qualified Room Leader and Assistant Room Leaders. We're also searching for Level 2, 3 and above qualified Nursery Practitioners to come and join our amazing team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a well established team and work closely with the management and owners. The nursery has an excellent reputation and we want to maintain these excellent standards.
You will be someone who demonstrates a mature attitude with a natural ability to work as part of a team.
Essential Requirements:
* Qualified in early years Level 2, 3 or above.
* DBS Certificate on the update service (this can be obtained through us).
* Clean criminal record.
* Passionate, caring with a real drive to deliver the very best possible care for the children.
* Reliable and enthusiastic.
* Leadership experience is preferred but not essential.
Desirable Requirements:
* You must have a warm smiling face that makes every child feel special.
* You must be able to laugh at jokes you don't understand, or find funny.
* You will have a little bit of quirkiness. If a child requests that you be a captain of a pirate ship, you will be the very best captain pirate you can be.
* You must feel comfortable telling everybody in the same room as you, that you are going to the toilet.
* The ability to sing in tune is not essential, however the ability to sing out of tune in front of a crowd is.
* You must be able to distribute warm hugs as required.
* You will possess the skills required to rapidly count the heads of numerous moving small people. This is the utmost importance.
* You must be comfortable entering public places on the way home from work, with unknown substances on your clothing.
* You must have a high level of comfort around talking about bodily functions. You must have a strong sense of smell to enable you to respond to said bodily functions.
* You can pretend to eat playdough creations realistically and drink numerous cups of pretend tea.
* You must have the ability to read a ten page fairy tale, upside down, with at least 4 interruptions per page.
* You must be prepared to have lots of fun in the workplace. Laughter is something you can expect to engage in for a large part of your working day.
* Finally you must be prepared to feel loved, special and important to our many young children and their families.
There simply is no other job quite like this one.
This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and an enhanced DBS will be required.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £12.75-£14.00 per hour
Expected hours: 35 – 42 per week
Benefits:
* Childcare
* Company events
* Company pension
* Employee discount
* Employee mentoring programme
* Free parking
* Health & wellbeing programme
* On-site parking
Ability to commute/relocate:
* Derby DE72 2GP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Application question(s):
* How many hours are you looking for? Do you have any restrictions on your availability?
* What childcare qualifications do you have? Please note, you MUST be qualified for these roles.
* Please give us some information on your experience. Do you have a preference on age group? Have you worked in a leadership role before?
Work Location: In person