Nursery Room Leader - Barnstaple, United Kingdom - Ladybirds Daycare Ltd
4 weeks ago
Description
Ladybirds Daycare has over thirty years of experience and an ethos to support children to become strong and motivated learners for life.
We pride ourselves on providing a service to enable parents to work and live their daily lives knowing their children are cherished and cared for by our dedicated team of professional childcare colleagues.
As Room Leader you will play a vital role in helping us inspire the future for our children, by offering them the very best care and early education; you will also support your room based colleagues, overseeing the day to day running of your allocated nursery room.
Performance
- Supporting the effective running on the nursery by being organised, and have the ability to plan and prioritise your work
- Being positive, confident and honest
- Having great initiative and a "can do" attitude
- Knowing and upholding our policies, procedures and established working practices
- Holding a recognised level 3 qualification in childcare
- Supporting, mentoring and coaching colleagues
For the child
- Being a "key person" for a group of children, ensuring that their care and development needs are being met at all times
- Purposefully observe, plan and assess children's learning opportunities using the three 'i's'
- Supporting reflective practice in order to meet the individual needs of all children.
- Understanding and implementing safeguarding, health and safety and welfare requirement policies and practices
- Leading the quality delivery in your allocated room
- Ensuring we encourage and praise children's development and achievements whilst guiding and managing the team in your room
- And most of all having FUN
Working with Others
- Being a dedicated team player, and valuing the different experience and skills of your colleagues
- Continually striving to work together to deliver thee very best care and early education for the children
- Supporting colleagues with empathy and care
- Acting as mentor to apprentices and other colleagues
- Sharing and role modelling professional knowledge and experience in line with current thinking around child development.
Ladybirds Daycare is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and DBS and barred lists checks.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent
Salary:
Up to £10.69 per hour
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
School type:
- Day nursery
- Preschool
- Private nursery school
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Barnstaple: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- You must hold a Level 3 Qualification in Early Years
Experience:
- Childcare: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- DBS (preferred)
Work Location:
In person
Expected start date: 07/08/2023
