Full time, Monday-Friday 8am-6pm.
Level 3 essential.
3+ years childcare experience essential
Purpose of the Role
The role of the Nursery Practitioner is to ensure all children attending Brown Bears Nursery receive high quality care, are kept safe and are provided with planned and stimulating play experiences which meet their individual needs and support all aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum.
Personal Responsibilities
- Provide high quality care and activities for the children and to recognise both individual and group requirements in a secure, safe and stimulating environment.
- Ensure you are familiar with the key policies and procedures, especially safeguarding children, equal opportunities, behaviour management and health and safety. You will be provided with a copy of the nursery's guide to policies and procedures.
- Work in partnership with early years professionals, for example Health Visitors and SEN services.
- Within reason to comply with requests to work outside normal hours, for example to cover if staff unexpectedly have to leave the room or are called away. This includes requests from the nursery to work long days from time to time.
- Ensure parent issues and concerns are dealt with promptly and accurately. Ensure management are informed and consulted where relevant.
- Participate in room and staff meetings.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade and character of the work as may reasonably be required by the Nursery.
- Never leave the room / nursery / childcare location and put your colleagues at risk of being out of ratio - unless in case of emergency.
- Support co-ordinators such as SENCO, Equal Opportunities in their roles.
- Attend training and development courses as directed by your manager or Assessor.
- To promote at all times good relations between staff members, parents and children, and promote the quality ethos of the nursery.
