Early Years Practitioner - Slough, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Slough, United Kingdom

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If you are looking for a job where no two days are the same and you can go home feeling rewarded, then this is the right post for you Your day will involve caring for the children, teaching, playing and having fun whilst keeping them safe.


First Steps Day Nursery is located on site, for staff use, at Wexham Park Hospital and provides high quality care and education for children aged between 3 months and 5 years.

You will be joining an established friendly and talented team.

We are open Monday to Friday between 06:45am and 5.30 pm for 51 weeks of the year and you would work an 8 hour shift each day starting at various times through the week between 6.30am and 5.30 pm.


The Early Years Practitioner will:


  • Be responsible to the Nursery Manager for the delivery of full day care to children under 5 years.
  • Be responsible for monitoring the Health and safety requirements in the Nursery, ensuring that processes are documented and assessed, risk assessments are completed and that the Nursery is compliant


Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire.


As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.


We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.


Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Education and Development

  • Using knowledge and understanding of child development theories, progressive learning and best working practices, contribute to and deliver individualised care and learning to children under five years within statutory and guiding principles described in the Early
Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

  • Collaborate with room lead and colleagues to ensure the environment reflects appropriate challenge and risk; age and stage appropriate resources; learning opportunities are differentiated to take account of age, stage and individual ability.
  • To be responsible for key children's observations, planning, assessments, to create children's learning journey.
  • To be responsible for producing formative and summative assessments of key children's progress.
  • Promote an ethos within the setting that values and celebrates diversity that enables all children and adults to make a positive contribution to nursery life.
  • Recognise children's voice through including them appropriately in assessing and choosing their own lines of learning and interactions and are sensitive and have due regard to children's right to be heard with respect.
  • Contribute to practices including the key person system, that support partnership working between parents, practitioners and others in order to lay a secure foundation for children's future learning and development.
  • Liaise with Lead Practitioner and Inclusion Coordinator when early signs of individual needs that could lead to later difficulties have been identified.
  • To ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND).
  • Contribute to practices supporting individual children and families transitions into the nursery between rooms and to school or other setting.
  • Contribute to the development of provision within the nursery by collaborating in planning, conducting, evaluating and reporting on action research projects and where identified as personal CPD opportunities.
  • Contribute to the implementation of new strategies both local and national, for example Every Child a Talker (ECAT) that will enhance children's development and learning.
  • To work closely with Room Leads/Management to contribute to and influence the nursery's selfevaluation and development plan.
  • Work collaboratively and in cooperation with all colleagues, ensuring all practices benefit children.
  • Through discussion with Room Lead, formulate and review own personal development plans (PDP) appropriate to professional needs.
  • Participate in planned staff redeployment to develop personal practical experience, knowledge and understanding of factors affecting child development and learning across the birth to five age range,
  • Participate in Continuous Provision Development (CPD) to develop personal knowledge and understanding on a range of theories and practices related to child development and learning. Be aware of up to date
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