Job Description

Job description

About us

The Treehouse Club is a multi award-winning Nursery Group, priding ourselves on delivering high levels of education, concentrating on child and team wellbeing, and creating amazing adventures for children and team members.

We are looking for a passionate

Baby Room Leader

who will be able to create environments for high quality learning and development! We are also looking for someone who can advocate for our youngest children and provide a safe, nurturing and consistent experience for our babies. The position is at our

Brand New

Forest and Farm Nursery in Herongate!

This beautiful setting will boast light and airy learning spaces and wonderful outdoor areas including an allotment, pond and our very own furry and fluffy residents!

The nursery will be overseen by an experienced and dedicated management team and you will be able to be part of our journey as we grow day by day!

Working 4 days a week 7.30am to 6.30pm 4 days a week

Benefits for our Nursery Room Leader include:

Free hot daily lunch - cooked by our experienced chef!

Extra birthday day off on us! - Your birthday is important!

Pension - Save those pennies for the future!

Well being package including access to a mental health first aider and a video library of wellbeing tools

Staff events including family friendly BBQ's and awards evenings!

Key Responsibilities - Baby Room Room Leader

Be responsible as a key person for your key children

. Ensure all room planning is achieving a high level of education for the children.

Create strong parent relationships.

Delivering a range of exciting and enriching activities and experiences for the children.

Updating children's online learning journals with quality observations and routine checks.

Gaining a clear understanding of policies and procedures, statutory welfare requirements, and Ofsted expectations and requirements and ensuring these are maintained at all times.

Clear knowledge of procedures to be followed in case of emergency e.g. fire, lockdown, accident & incident procedures.

Maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene within the Nursery.

Ensuring that the Nursery conforms to and exceeds the requirements of Ofsted.

Upholding and ensuring a high standard of care throughout the Nursery.

Implementing and maintaining the company's Equality policy ensuring that children, parents, and the staff team are valued and practice is positive and non-discriminatory.

Monitoring any safeguarding issues following local authority procedures

Safeguarding statement:

The Treehouse Forestry Nursery and Out of School Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and takes its statutory duties and responsibilities in this context very seriously. We expect everyone working in or on behalf of the setting to share our commitment.

We take pride in ensuring that our robust policies and procedures are reviewed regularly and implemented consistently, by everyone, as we strive to maintain a strong safeguarding working practices and culture. Annual safeguarding training is provided to all staff and is an integral part of the setting's Continued Professional Development training. All staff, volunteers and main contractors undergo appropriate DBS checks prior to appointment.

Safer recruitment

The Treehouse Forestry Nursery and Out of School Club applies safer recruitment policies to ensure that all of our staff are suitable to work with children and young people. We advise you in advance that two people will be involved in your recruitment process. Both people will partake in your interview and each person will individually review all applications and paperwork to ensure that you are suitable for the role.

Part of our safer recruitment procedure includes obtaining references for you. One of these references must be your latest employer. If you are unable to obtain a reference before the interview from your current employer then you must obtain references from the employer before that as well as one other reference.

References from former employers are preferable over any other referee. Please note that we will need to obtain a reference from your latest employer before completing our processes for you to commence working for us.

We are at liberty to advise you that if there are gaps in your employment history or any other information that gives us cause for concern, we will contact your former employers to obtain further information and satisfy any concerns that we have.

Eligibility to work within the UK

We will need to obtain evidence from you to confirm that you are eligible to work within the UK. We confirm that this information, as well as all personal information, will be held in our Staff Central Record.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 30,000.00-30,400.00 per year

Benefits:

Childcare Company events Company pension Employee discount Employee mentoring programme Free parking Health & wellbeing programme Sick pay
Work Location: In person