Vacancy - Early Years Practitioner

Purpose of Post

· To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in the nursery.

· To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare and safety is promoted.

· To give support to other team members throughout the nursery.

· To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, learn and develop.

Key Areas

· Work with and support children

· Work as part of a team

· Build and maintain strong partnerships with parents

Duties and Responsibilities

· Operate a programme of activities that meet the individual needs and interests of children in your area in conjunction with other team members.

· To keep records of your Key Children’s development and learning journeys and share this with parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life.

· To follow the nursery safeguarding procedure to ensure all children are kept safe, well and secure.

· Support all staff and engage in a good staff team.

· Liaise with and support parents and other family members.

· To be involved in out of working hours activities, e.g. training, monthly staff meetings, events etc.

· To be flexible in working practice. Be prepared to help where needed including to undertake certain domestic jobs within nursery e.g. preparation of snacks and meals, cleaning etc

· Work alongside the Manager and staff team to ensure that the nursery’s philosophy is fulfilled.

· Read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role as deemed appropriate by the Manager.

· Recording accidents in the accident book, ensuring that a senior member of staff has signed the report before parents receive it.

· Look upon the nursery as a ‘whole’, where can your help be most utilised? Be constantly aware of the individual needs of all the children.

· Ensure someone known and agreed by the nursery and parents collects the child.

· To respect the confidentiality of all information received.

Specific Childcare Tasks

· The preparation and completion of activities to suit each individual child’s stage of development and interests.

· To develop your role within the team especially with regard as a Key Person.

· To ensure all mealtimes are a time of pleasant social sharing.

· Washing and changing children as required.

· To ensure all good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.

· Ensuring a poorly child is kept calm and warm and management are notified immediately.

· To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communications with parents/carers to facilitate day to day caring and early learning needs.

· To ensure the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children regardless of disabilities, family backgrounds or medical history.

· To be aware of the high profile of the nursery and to uphold its standards at all times, both within work hours and outside.

Included Job Roles

· Key Person

All roles are supported by the Nursery Manager and Deputy Nursery Manager.

To apply for this role please request further information using the contact form below or send an email with a short covering letter and C.V to careers@wonderyearscentre.co.uk