Company Name:

Zeeba Daycare Royal Arsenal

Job Description:

Nursery Practitioner

Role Overview:

A nursery practitioner is responsible for:

Ensuring high quality childcare and education is provided in a safe and clean room

Ensuring she/he is a role model for staff including high levels of professionalism and standard of appearance.

Supporting the room leader in coaching, mentoring and supervising the Nursery practitioners within the room ensuring they are fulfilling their roles and responsibilities.

Providing support to the room leader and senior management .

Supporting the room leader in carrying out termly supervisions, observations and cohort tracking.

Ensuring the Early Years Foundation Stage is embedded and adhered to.

Ensuring the rooms display boards and communication boards are up to date and relevant.

Ensuring the Key Person's information is up to date.

Key Responsibilities

General Duties:

To support the room leader in overseeing the day to day running of the room.

To be approachable for parents and staff.

To be responsible for the care, well-being and safety of all children and staff.

To ensure high standards of care and education are maintained at all times.

To take an active role within the team.

To ensure the room runs smoothly and is clean, tidy and presentable at all times.

To ensure adherence to health and safety policies and practice and ensure risk assessments are completed timely.

To ensure all room and Nursey policies and procedures are adhered to.

To respect and maintain confidentiality.

To inform the room leader of any problems, children's illnesses and absences.

To help to identify training needs

To participate in room meetings to ensure good team working and motivation, information sharing and planning.

To carry out assessments and cohort tracking.

To ensure the children's dietary and allergy needs are met and all staff are aware.

To ensure the children's SEND needs are met and all staff are aware.

To liaise effectively with the SENDCo.

To ensure all concerns regarding child protection/safeguarding are responded to promptly and appropriately following policies and procedures.

To support the room leader in the room planning, observation and assessment on a regular basis.

To support the room leader in developing team practice with regards to the Early Years Foundation Stage and pedagogy.

In the room leader's absence, deal with any duties as instructed by the Nursery Manager.

To communicate effectively with parents and other visitors to the Nursery.

To assume responsibility for opening and closing the Nursery as directed by the Nursery Manager.

To comply fully with the safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures.

To ensue a wide variety of challenging activities are provided to meet children's.

To ensure the children's learning needs, likes, interest and next steps are recorded and accommodated.

To ensure a wide variety of challenging activities are provided to meet children's interests and next steps in learning.

To ensure that all new children are welcomed and settled in.  That when information has been collected from the parent it is shared with the rest of the staff including the Nursery Cook, if applicable.

When a message is left by a parent regarding their child's care/welfare that the information is passed on to the relevant staff.  It is also important to check that any messages left with staff for the parent is given to them.

Self-Management:

Attends training courses to further personal development.

Performs any ad hoc duties as required.

Actively contributes and participates as part of the team, attending team meetings and other events.

Is mindful of personal safety and safety of colleagues.

Assists the room leader and the Nursery Manager with initiatives at directly benefits the Nursery.

Skills, Knowledge, Experience

Essential to role:

Minimum of 2 years' post qualification

Minimum Level 3 or equivalent

Relevant childcare qualifications in accordance with OFSTED guidelines.

Thorough understanding and knowledge of legislation including EYFS

Empathetic, caring and friendly

Enthusiastic, positive attitude

Patient

Adept at dealing with stress

Desirable to role:

Experience of responsibility for SEND children

Excellent planning and organisation skills.

Location

Company Description:

Zeeba Daycare Royal Arsenal is a private daycare nursery which is situated on the ground floor of East Carriage House within the Berkeley Homes Estate in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.  We are one of the larges nurseries in the area and look after up to 125 children per day.

Taking care of our staff’s wellbeing is of prime importance to us and we are proud to have been voted the 14th best place to work in the whole of the UK.

We know that fabulous staff make a great Nursery, and we pride ourselves on having a highly qualified, trained, and skilled team.  All staff undertake mandatory training in Safeguarding, Pediatric First Aid, Health, Fire and Food Safety.

We have a wonderful team that are welcoming, grounded, and passionate about what they do, and we look forward to adding positive, enthusiastic and proactive practitioners to the team.

Our staff benefits from:

20 days holiday per year and Bank holidays. 

Paid day off for your Birthday.

Private Health Care.

Refer a friend bonuses.