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Location

Amersham, Buckinghamshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Main job purpose:

To care for and develop children in your care, ensuring high quality experiences.
Responsibilities include:
• To care for and stimulate through purposeful play and interactions the children in your care, building excellent relationships with them and promoting their development.
• To provide a safe, happy, stimulating environment for all children, treating each child as a unique individual.
• To ensure the smooth running of the daily practices, ensuring you adhere to all expected practices and that all policies are followed, including ensuring paperwork is completed to a good standard.
• To contribute to good observation and assessment of, and planning for, all children in the room, especially your key children.
• To ensure all children receive quality care and their development is suitably promoted, including ensuring quality one to one time each day with your key children.
• To have an understanding and demonstrate practical knowledge of the Childcare Standards and the Framework for Early Years Foundation Stage.
• To ensure confidentiality is maintained.
• To act as a Named Coordinator relevant to skills or training as designated by the Nursery Manager.
• Supporting the Room Leader, and assisting with the planning of activities in a designated area of the nursery.
• To attend and participate in staff meetings, sharing best practice and training advice when requested.
• To attend and participate in training days, including up to two per year on a Saturday.
• To develop good working relationships with all parents, particularly those of your key children.
• To follow all Safeguarding & Welfare practices and requirements. To report any Safeguarding issues immediately to the Room Leader or senior member of staff. This includes sharing concerns about other staff members.
• To ensure that only designated staff administer medication as recorded in the risk assessments and as displayed in the Policies and Procedures file.
• To assist in ensuring all accidents, incidents and risk assessment forms are kept and monitored.
• To promote equal opportunities for all children and staff with regard to their religious persuasion, racial origins, gender, disabilities, cultural or linguistic background; in particular, challenging situations where racism or discrimination are displayed. Report all incidents to the Nursery Manager or named Inclusion Officer.
• To participate in parents' evenings, nursery events, open weekends and children's outings.
• Preparation, care, cleanliness and maintenance of the playrooms and equipment, including laundry duties.
• Supervision of meals and mealtimes and where appropriate preparation of baby’s bottles.
• To undertake any other duties appropriate to the post as directed by the Nursery Manager, Deputy Nursery Manager or Room Leader.

Responsible to: The Room Leader.
This job description is not prescriptive and may be changed from time to time at the reasonable request of the Nursery Manager or Proprietor.
Person Specification:

You should write about how you fulfil each of the points below in section 4 of your application form.

Qualifications

• To have a Level 3 or above Childcare Qualification
• Current First Aid Certificate (for young children/ adults)
• Current Safeguarding Children Certificate

Experience

• To have a minimum three years experience of caring for babies/ young children ensuring good, appropriate behaviour and offering high quality provision, care and delivering high standards of learning and development.
• To have experience of working within a team.
• To have experience of developing good working parental relationships.
• To have experience of implementing core policies, such as Safeguarding, Equality and Health and Safety.
• To have experience of observing children and planning for their needs.
• To have experience of developing babies and young children, intellectually, socially, physically and emotionally.

Skills and Knowledge

• To know how babies and young children develop and be able to care for them.
• To know development steps in child development and be able to engage and stimulate babies and young children in play.
• To know, understand and implement the Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage.
• To have sufficient understanding and use of English to ensure the well-being of the children and be able to keep records in English, liaise with agencies, summon emergency help and understand a range of written instructions on medicines, food hygiene and in respect to safety
• To know and be able to keep children safe and healthy.
• To know and understand principles of equality and how to implement these in your daily practice.
• To know how to teach and encourage positive, good behaviour and deal with any issues sensitively and appropriately.
• To know and understand general parental concerns and be able to form good relationships with parents to ensure the best outcomes for the child.
• To be able to implement and model best practice at all times with key policies and practices.
• To know how to observe children and plan next steps in their learning.
• To be creative in planning a range of suitable, fun, stimulating activities for children.

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