Job Description

D-Dee's are oversubscribed and we need another special person to help us deliver our outstanding and high quality experiences to our little people and their families.

Could you be that person?

We are looking for the most perfect person to join our dedicated staff team.

Do you have what it takes to join our Outstanding nursery?

Do you want to work in an award-winning nursery where unique is valued both in our staff and children?

Do you want to become part of the D-Dee's family?

We are looking for a member of staff to join us as an early years educator in our nursery.

D-Dee's has exceptionally high standards to maintain, we are respected for our work by our families, little people and from within the sector. The person to fill this role must be forward thinking and show those special qualities that are so important to us here.

We would like applicants who are either qualified to level 2 or above in early years or who are looking to take their first steps into an early years career and qualification, whom would consider doing their apprenticeship training with us.

We will need you to have or be prepared to complete the requirements below, these can be carried out in house prior to commencement of the role for the successful applicant.

Current DBS Certificate and on the update service.

Paediatric First Aid, Safeguarding Children Certificate and Basic Food Hygiene.

Our team are at the heart of everything that we do here at D-Dee's and we need some extra special qualities to make us shine so if:

You can read the same story 25 times and still be animated and excited by it. You can be a racing driver, a fairy princess, a fire fighter and a footballer all in one day to support imaginative play. You can think outside the box and make anything in the world with a cardboard box. You never ever get full up when eating playdough food. You can simultaneously catch a child, hug a child and make another child smile. You can still smile when the milk has gone over for the tenth time. You are able to eat your lunch while someone sneezes and someone else calls you to the bathroom. You are able to be freezing cold in the garden but still smile and enjoy the space and time with the children. You have a song for every occasion.
Then you could be just the person that we are looking for, in addition to these qualities we need you to be:
Reliable, flexible and able to use your own initiative along with being resourceful and creative.
A team player, who can contribute ideas but also embrace those of others.
Able to accept challenge and change to practice.
Able to facilitate activities where children can explore off of the nursery site.
Able to engage appropriately with families in many different situations, showing empathy, kindness, fun and a sense of humour.
Able to support experienced members of the team to plan appropriate activities to facilitate children's next steps in their learning.
If you think that you could be our new special big person to make our little people feel as special as they really are then please apply by sending in your CV to Debbie Gunn

Successful applicants will be sent an application form to complete.

We hope that our new special person is on their way very soon.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: 12.25-13.10 per hour

Expected hours: 30 - 40 per week

Benefits:

Company events Company pension Employee discount
Schedule:

Day shift Monday to Friday No weekends
Education:

GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:

Nursery: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person