Nursery Practitioner

Crossway Nursery Group LTD

Crossway Nursery and Preschool & Crossway Town Nursery

JOB DESCRIPTION Qualified Nursery Practitioner

We are expanding our Crossway team and are looking to employ a qualified nursery practitioner to join the Crossway Family. We are a family run business with 2 small nursery settings in Caldicot and we’re offering new recruits the opportunity to;

− work within a dynamic, friendly and very experienced team

− to access further training and support in their professional development

− develop their own career within the Crossway Nursery Group

We require a practitioner who is not only qualified to Level 3, but who is also able to;

• Read a story with your legs and arms readily available to be used a busy road or train track for other little people
• Babble and report back to a one year old, in THEIR own language confidently and with ease
• MULTI-TASK!
• Sing nursery rhymes whilst dancing and prancing like nobody’s watching
• Role-play….have your hair curled, cut, put up…..have your limbs and head bandaged….eye patches applied…medicine given….temperature taken…..be the BIG BAD WOLF and coming knocking on their imaginary door….turn a regular stick into a magic wand, lollipop, or sword…..
• Be available for cuddles and stories at the drop of a hat or tap on the leg

This is not an exhaustive list! The list goes on……..

Here comes the more formal bit....At Crossway Nursery Group LTD, our nursery practitioners;

▪ Ensure a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children placed in the nursery

▪ Give support to other personnel and management within the nursery

▪ Implement the daily routine in base rooms and contribute to planning, observation and assessment.

Key areas for our practitioners;

▪ Work with children and babies

▪ Care for children and babies

▪ Teach children and babies

▪ Team work

▪ Liaise professionally with Parents, Staff, Management and other Professionals

Responsible to:
Nursery Owner/ Manager/ Deputy Manager/Room Leaders

Duties and Responsibilities

▪ Assist in planning daily activities and monthly topics with learning and development goals in mind for each individual child.

To safeguard all children and ensure their safety at all times, and carry out your role and responsibilities as a Safeguarding Level 1 nursery practitioner.

▪ Maintain and prepare development files and records for children and babies.

▪ Assist and support children with additional learning needs and give physical, emotional, intellectual guidance as appropriate.

▪ Support all staff and engage in a good staff team.

▪ Liaise with and support parents and other family members.

▪ Attend staff meetings outside working hours

▪ Undertake certain domestic jobs within the Nursery, for example, preparation of snack meals, cleansing of equipment.

▪ To attend out of working hours activities, e.g. training, staff meetings, parent's evenings, summer fayre and Christmas activities.

▪ To be flexible within working practises within the setting be prepared to work where needed and undertaking certain domestic tasks, e.g snacks

▪ Recording accidents/incidents in the books provided

▪ Ensure child is collected by someone known to the setting

▪ To respect the confidentiality of information received

▪ To develop your role within the team

▪ Work alongside the Manager and staff team to ensure that the philosophy behind the nursery is fulfilled.

PERSON SPECIFICATION for Nursery Nurse
Experience

▪ Experience in a nursery setting

▪ Experience of working with children aged 6 months - 4 years

Education/Training Qualifications

▪ Level 2 or 3 Early Years Education and Childcare qualification

▪ NVQ

▪ NNEB

▪ Other acceptable qualifications as stated by the Childcare Workforce Development Council
(www.cwdcouncil.org.uk)

▪ Basic Food Hygiene Certificate (Desirable, training will be given)

▪ Paediatric First Aid

▪ Safeguarding Training

▪ Prevent Training

Specialist Knowledge

▪ Knowledge Of The Children's Act

▪ Knowledge of Wales National Minimum Standards

▪ Knowledge of The Foundation Phase

▪ Knowledge Of Health and Safety, Risk Assessments

▪ Knowledge of Key Worker Systems

Skills and Abilities

▪ Be able to work as part of a professional Childcare team

▪ Have an understanding of equal Opportunities

▪ Ability to communicate confidently with a wide range of people

▪ Good organisational skills

▪ To be able to feedback information in the form of written reports

▪ Demonstrate creative ability

▪ To be able to understand and meet the needs of individual children and families

▪ Encourage children to respect others

▪ Have a professional approach

▪ A clear understanding of the importance of confidentiality

▪ Understand the need to provide a stimulating, caring and consistent environment for young children

▪ An understanding of children's needs and behaviour

▪ The ability to set appropriate limits for children

▪ To help children respect people of different race, ability, gender, religion and culture

▪ Willing to develop imaginative ideas

▪ To be flexible with regard to working hours

▪ To be motivated and able to motivate children and staff

▪ To engender trust in the children and colleagues

▪ The ability to form caring and trusting relationships with the children and their families

▪ The ability to behave consistently in a caring and relaxed manner with the children

▪ The ability to follow nursery policies and procedures.

The successful candidate will be bubbly, energetic and have a positive attitude to daily work and potential challenges.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 16 per week

Salary: From £9.70 per hour

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Free parking

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

School type:

• Day nursery
• Private nursery school

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Caldicot: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Nursery: 1 year (required)

Work Location: One location