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Chichester College Group have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Childcare Officerat First Steps Childcare, Brinsbury College. You will join us on a full time, permanent basisand in return, we will offer a competitive salary of £24,434.80 - £25,589.20 per annum.
The Childcare Officer role:
Are you a happy, supportive and fun loving individual who dreams of a job where no two days are the same? An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Childcare Officer at our First Steps Nursery based at Brinsbury College.
Working with young babies through to children ready to start school, you will share your love for learning and make a real difference in children’s development and learning journeys. Together with our dedicated team, you will be a part of ensuring the children are learning, socialising, exploring and having fun.
Job Purpose
- To promote a caring and stimulating environment.
- To plan, organise and implement a programme of activities in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Key Responsibilities of ourChildcare Officer:
- To ensure the safety, happiness and well-being of children, ensuring that all children are supported to reach their potential and that individual needs are met.
- To effectively lead the team to be delivering high quality opportunities, through modelling the expected standards and having high expectations of the team, and ensuring that the day to day experience for children is outstanding.
- To ensure that there is effective, open and meaningful communication within the team and with parents.
- To support children through the implementation of our nursery intent, annual calendar and the delivery of our pre-school curriculum, ensuring that all opportunities for teachable moments are utilised.
- To support staff with documentation including (but not limited to) planning, observations and assessments, and reviewing and moderating these to ensure their accuracy and effectiveness.
- To be reflective and reactive to cohort needs/organisational needs/sector updates and to actively aim to solve problems and proactively make a difference through striving for improvement.
- To contribute to and work towards targeted action plans in conjunction with the Childcare Manager.
- To lead purposeful team meetings and motivate staff to reflect and improve, and using these as supportive developmental opportunities.
Our ideal Childcare Officer should have the below skills and experience:
- Level 3 qualification in Early Childhood Studies (or equivalent)
- A period of post qualifying experience working in a childcare setting
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of planning and delivering high quality opportunities for children to support children to reach their potential
- Working knowledge of current Early Years regulations (including Early Years Foundation Stage, Development Matters and Ofsted frameworks/guidance)
- An understanding of safeguarding vulnerable groups
- Ability to communicate effectively and purposefully in a range of ways to suit a variety of situations
Closing date: 6 January 2025
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The Chichester College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, which may include a check of the barred lists and any relevant overseas checks. We vigorously pursue all references and safeguarding checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with young people.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
