Senior Early Years Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Blaydon, Gateshead, United Kingdom Spring Nurseries Full time

Role:
Ref Senior Early Years Practitioner


Location:
Blaydon-on-Tyne, Tyne and Wear


Salary:
£25,300 per annum (pro-rata)


Contract/Hours:
Permanent Part Time - 24 hours per week


Closing date:
Midnight on 29
th
April 2024

Benefits:

Annual leave of 25 days plus public holidays, gain professional qualifications with excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity/adoption/paternity packages, a pension with a up to a 7% employer contribution rate (plus, if you pay in to the pension you will receive life assurance cover), staff discount portal with your favourite brands, Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.

For more information check out our career's portal.**We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know

About Spring
Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children.

It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all.

We are focused on enabling young people to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright, engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team.

Join us and you can look forward to:

  • A kind, caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing, both physical and mental.
  • Flexible working wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
  • Lots of opportunities for training, learning, development, including gaining qualifications.
  • Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.

A bit about the role

What you'll be doing
In the role of Senior Early Years Practitioner, you'll be:

  • Leading the staff within the room on providing learning programmes for individual or groups of children appropriate to their needs and developmental stages in accordance with Early Years legislation and guidance.
  • Contributing to and participating in the wider nursery management through leading on specific areas of development within the nursery, as directed by the Nursery Manager.
  • Preparing and supervising dedicated areas/rooms within the setting on specific working patterns through planning, monitoring of outcomes, managing ratio of children, and the provision of a stimulating and appropriate range of activities whilst ensuring health and care needs are met.

What we need from you
In the role of Senior Early Years Practitioner, we're ideally looking for someone who has:

  • Level 3 early years and childcare qualification e.g., NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education.
  • A thorough knowledge of children's developmental needs from 0 to 5 years.
  • Experience working and leading in an early year setting.
  • Strong planning, observation and reflection of children and their learning.
  • Effective communication skills across multiple age groups.
  • Paediatric First Aid qualification.


Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Good luck We can't wait to hear from you.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion


Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.


We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.


Application Process


There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration - please refer to the JD and Person Specification when applying.


We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.


Talent Pool:
We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team.

If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for.

But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.

We'll be happy to give you any support you require.

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