Early Years Practitioner - Stourbridge, United Kingdom - Belbroughton Nursery

Belbroughton Nursery

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Stourbridge, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

JOB DESCRIPTION - NURSERY PRACTITIONER/ KEY PERSON

Purpose of Post:

To provide nursery care ensuring the children are safe, cared for, stimulated and enjoy their day.
Provide a caring and loving environment for the children whilst their parents are not with them.
Confident to share own ideas and to listen and learn from others
Coordination of activities and events
Contribute engaging ideas for stimulating activities
Work as part of a team when developing ideas
Understand and empathise with parents' points of view when dealing with children so that both the parent and the child feel heard and understood
Friendly and approachable personality for parents, children and other staff members
To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting.
Prepare children for a school environment

- work with school

To give support to their staff within the setting.
To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.
To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children's needs to be met.

Responsible to:

Nursery Manager/Deputy

Main Duties:

To effectively deliver the EYFS ensuring that the individual needs and interest of children in the setting are met (in conjunction with other team members)
To keep records of your key children's development and learning journeys and share with parents, carers and other key adults in the child's life.
Support all staff and engage in a good staff team.
To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate daytoday caring and early learning needs.
Knowledge of safeguarding arrangements for collection of children.
Change nappies as and when required.
Support and comfort children/ parents during settling in.
Record accidents and share details with parents at the end of the session/day.
To ensure the provision of a highquality environment to meet the needs of individual children having an awareness of any disabilities, family cultures and medical histories.
To advise manager/deputy of any concerns, e.g. over children, parents, the safety of the environment, preserving confidentiality as necessary.
To be involved in out of working hours activities, e.g. training, termly staff meetings, committee meetings
To be flexible within working practices of the setting, undertaking other responsible duties where needed, such as domestic tasks, preparation of snack meals, cleansing of equipment, etc.
To work alongside the manager and staff team to ensure that the setting's philosophy is fulfilled.
To read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role and the safe running of the setting.
To develop your role within the team, especially with regard to being a key person
To keep completely confidential any information regarding the children, their families or other staff that is acquired as part of the job.
To be aware of the high profile of the setting and to uphold its standards at all times, both in work hours and outside.
To support nursery assistants, students and volunteers.
To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.
To undertake and support staff on additional responsibilities such as SENCO, training cocoordinator, safeguarding Officer etc

Personnel Specification - Nursery Practitioner

Essential

Minimum of a relevant and recognised Essential and Training Level 3 qualification.
Experience in working with children. Based on 2014 Gov training
General Knowledge of legislation relevant to Early Years such as EYFS, SEN, safeguarding, Knowledge Childcare Act 200
Knowledge of Child Development and children's needs.
Ability to work with parents/carers/families to encourage partnership working.
Ability to communicate well with adults and children.
Ability to work as part of a team.
Understanding of Equal Opportunities.
Awareness of Health, Safety & Hygiene.
Ability, flexibility and willingness to take on other responsibilities or duties as deemed necessary.

Desirable