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Responsible to:Room Leader/Nursery Manager
Hours :Full Time
Salary:Competitive
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare, wellbeing and safety are our primary priority
To ensure and maintain the highest standard of care is delivered across all areas of our childrens development Socially, Physically, Intellectually and Emotionally
To support all other team members within the allocated room in addition to the wider nursery environment
To work as an integral part of a valued team to provide an enabling environment for all children to play, learn and develop
Key Areas:
Work with and support children
Record all information correctly
To competently use the Nurserys Famly software to carry out observations and assessments
Work as part of a dynamic team
Build and maintain strong partnerships with parents
Main Duties:
To follow and be consistently up to date with the nursery safeguarding procedure, ensuring all children are kept safe, healthy and secure
To share knowledge and experience to support other team members and ensure all individuals work within a consistent system to deliver the highest quality of care
To keep records of individual key childrens development and learning journeys, making effective use of the Nurserys Famly programme, ensuring parents are always considered as partners
To share with Room Leader/Nursery Manager the early identification and intervention for children who may potentially have special educational needs, ensuring all areas of development can be successfully met; adapting activities to meet every individual childs specific requirements
Attend all staff training days
Ensure all record keeping is completed, stored correctly and is all up to date
Ensure daily room checks and outdoor checks are carried out thoroughly
Liaise effectively with parents/carers and provide support when necessary
Liaise with other professionals and other professionals outside of the Nursery
To attend training, monthly staff meetings, parents evenings and any other outside nursery events
Undertake various domestic jobs within the nursery preparation of snack, lunch supervision, ensuring the nursery is always fit for purpose and is always left clean and tidy
Work closely with any students or volunteers, supporting them with their training programme and providing guidance and support
Work alongside all other team members effectively, particularly the Room Leader to ensure the nurserys philosophy is always implemented and achieved
Read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures, ensuring all other team members have a full understanding of these and they are adhered to and effectively implemented
Ensure the highest standards of hygiene, safety and cleanliness, within the designated area and the nursery as a whole
Ensure that the correct procedures are followed when children are brought to and collected from the Nursery
To maintain the highest level of confidentiality in all aspects of the Nursery setting
To carefully follow the Nurserys Accident and First Aid Procedure and record all information correctly
Specific Childcare Tasks:
Reporting any concerns regarding a childs welfare to the Nursery Manager and ensure that the correct safeguarding procedures are strictly followed
To support, facilitate and implement the preparation and completion of activities based around The Early Years Foundation Stage to support every individual childs learning and development
To organise the rooms lunch time and ensure ratios are always maintained.
Ensuring lunch times are a time of pleasant and social sharing and interaction
Promoting the highest standard of hygiene for children, ensuring good regular handwashing procedures are in place
Washing and changing children as required
Ensuring any child who is poorly is kept calm, warm and supported and the Nursery procedure for Sick Children is implemented
To develop and maintain strong relationships with parents and carers to facilitate a high standard of care both at home and within the nursery setting
Enabling and adapting all environments to ensure care is facilitated for children who may have disabilities or any other additional needs
