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Benefits:
- 4-day working week - great work/life balance
- Great staff-to-children ratios
- Competitive salary
- Regular CPD & progression opportunities
- Warm & friendly working environment
- Staff discount
- Christmas shutdown
Company Overview:
A fantastic opportunity for a level 3 qualified practitioner to join a professional, high quality childcare service within a state-of-the-art nursery in central Liverpool. This Ofsted rated 'Good' setting provides every child with a safe, secure, stimulating and engaging environment, ensuring that they thrive and reach their full potential.
Key Responsibilities for our Early Years Educator:
The successful candidate will deliver a high standard of learning, development and care for children aged 0-5 years, in line with EYFS and Ofsted requirements. Main duties will include the following;
- To provide a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors at all times
- To deliver an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum that enables children to make individual progress
- To plan activities which ensure each child is working towards the Early Learning outcomes
- To develop partnerships with parents/carers, informing them about the nursery and its curriculum, exchanging information about children’s progress and encouraging parents to increase involvement in their child’s development
- To be a key person, ensuring records are maintained sufficiently to inform of progress against the Early Learning goals, including observations, assessments, daily attendance register, accident and incident book, risk assessments
- To understand and work to nursery policies and procedures, including how to deal with child protection issues appropriately and how to respond to incidents, accidents, complaints and emergencies
- To ensure that the nursery is a safe environment for children, staff and others
- Helping to ensure the nursery meets Ofsted requirements at all times
- Undertaking designated officer roles as directed
- Working together with other professionals in the local area for the benefit of children and families
- Working in partnership with senior management to update and review the self-evaluation and improvement plan
- Undertaking any other reasonable duties as directed by the nursery lead, in accordance with the nursery aims and objectives
Essential Skills and Experience Required for our Early Years Educator:
- Knowledge and proven experience of working with children age 0-5 years
- Empathy and understanding of children under five years of age
- Excellent working knowledge of the EYFS and current Ofsted statutory guidance
- Knowledge and proven practical experience of implementing good quality learning opportunities
- A commitment to quality in all areas, with a high level of motivation and enthusiasm
- Excellent communication skills, both written & verbal
- The ability to be innovative and creative
- The ability to write reports and keep clear and accurate records, with administrative and basic IT skills
- Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Excellent organisational, motivational and negotiation skills
- Reliable, flexible and able
- A calm and caring nature
- A creative thinker with a good sense of humour
- Able to commit with the ability to perform under stress
- Able to make decisions and be accountable with the ability to work at all levels
- A level 3 Early Years/Childcare qualification is required for this role
- Paediatric first aid
Schedule: 4 days per week between Monday and Friday
Location: Central Liverpool
