Position: EYP (Maternity Post until August 2026)
Hours: - 4 days per week, 38 hrs per week
Location: - Strathkinness
Salary: - £12.85ph
The Role
Little Beehive Nursery are looking for a Nursery/Classroom Assistant to join their setting. You will work directly with your colleagues to create an educational, caring environment for your children and a fulfilling and enjoyable workplace experience for you and your colleagues.
in the role you will:
· Ensure the room provides the best possible educational experience for children.
· Ensure your room provides a caring and nurturing environment.
· Work along-side an EYP to pro-actively work to deliver the curriculum for excellence.
· Work along-side an EYP to support, plan and evaluate activities with colleagues.
· Drive your own self development and continuous improvement.
· Working in partnership with parent/cares on children's learning.
· Ensure that health and safety is kept to a high standing within the learning environment.
· Working within local and national guidelines such as Care Inspectorate. Fife or Angus Council and Child Protection.
Working at Little Beehive
We offer a competitive salary, training progression and excellent benefits, including;
* 5 In-Service training days per year where training is tailored to your specific needs and interests.
* Training opportunities (SVQ 3 & 4, Childhood Practice BA, Froebel, Outdoor Learning/Forest Kindergarten and many more opportunities)
* 5:30pm to 6pm daily protected paperwork time.
* Christmas week closure
* Specialist training (Forest Schools, Heuristic play and more)
* Free Uniform (Including Raincoat & Shell jacket)
* Free Lunches (Hot & Cold)
* Real Living wage employer guarantee
* Career progression via internal promotion
* Free access to the Azilo training Library
* Health and Wellbeing support with Health Assured and free access to the Wisdom App
Who we are looking for
You must be enthusiastic and have genuine desire to inspire high-quality education. You have a keen interest in Early Years education, and are interested in progressing your understanding of the industry through continued training and development. You will strive to meet the needs of individual children; you will be able to create and maintain good connections with your team and parents/careers. You are able to adaptable to change and work pro-actively to solve problems in partnership with your colleagues.
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 9 months
Pay: £12.85 per hour
Work Location: In person