To be a proactive member of a staff team who provide a safe, stimulating and inclusive environment in which babies and young children are supported and encouraged to achieve their full potential.
To offer full and practical support in the day to day running of the nursery.
Main duties of role:
Below is a list of tasks and responsibilities that you are obliged to fulfil in your role as a Nursery Practitioner:
To assist in providing a safe, supportive and caring environment for young children in the care of Green lane Nursery and Childcare Centre; to ensure that all aspects of each individual child's development are given full consideration.
To be fully up to date with the requirements of the 'Early Years Foundation Stage' and ensure that your practice meets and aims to exceed the requirements.
To ensure that children are kept safe and that you understand when to follow child protection procedures.
To understand and respect the need for consistency of care for the children - report for duty on time, maintain regular attendance, give appropriate notice of holiday requests and report non-attendance through sickness promptly and appropriately.
To follow all routines, duties, timetables, rotas, recording keeping activities and any other reasonable duty as requested by your Deputy or Nursery Manager.
To be proactive in the process of activity planning, child observation and development records on a regular basis and as requested by your Deputy and Nursery Manager.
To ensure that adequate records are kept and updated regularly.
To be an effective key person to those children assigned to you and to take on their assigned responsibilities, as requested and advised by your Deputy, in line with knowledge and experience.
To advise the Manager of any concerns e.g. health and wellbeing of children, parents and staff or the safety of equipment, preserving confidentiality.
To ensure that clean and hygienic standards are maintained at all times. This includes daily cleaning rotas, nappy changing and other nursery/housekeeping duties.
To be aware of and adhere to all the setting's operational policies and procedures, e.g. health and safety, fire precautions, dropping off and collection of children, food safety, cleanliness of the setting.
To keep completely confidential any information regarding the children, their families or any other staff, which is acquired as part of the job.
To comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation.
To work in partnership with parents/carers and other family members.
To ensure that communication with children, parents and staff is polite and courteous at all times.
To share relevant information and ensure that information passed between parents and staff is communicated to your Deputy/Nursery Manager as appropriate.
To promote the setting to current parents and potential customers.
To actively participate at team meetings, supervision meetings and appraisal meetings.
To attend professional development training and any other events as requested by your Nursery Manager.
To provide staff cover within the nursery group periodically, as requested by the Management Team.
To carry out any other reasonable additional duties as requested by your supervisor and/or Nursery Manager from time to time.
Please Note:
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1976 and the successful applicant will be required to apply for an enhanced DBS certificate. As the post will involve regulated activity with children, it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are included on the children's barred list held by the DBS.
Amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected'. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: 13.00 per hour
Benefits:
Employee discount
On-site parking
Ability to commute/relocate:
Barnard Castle DL12: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:
Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
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