Head of Nursery

6 months ago

Ilford, United Kingdom Beacon Academy Trust Full time

**Overall Responsibilities**

The Head of Nursery is responsible for ensuring that all staff members deliver a programme of play-based activities that are fun, linked to the curriculum and give children awe and wonder about the world we live in. The Head of nursery must share the forest school ethos and promote/model outdoor learning in all weathers. They must have high expectations of what children can achieve and are confident to filter knowledge of child development through our coaching programme.

**General Duties and Responsibilities**

The Head of Nursery is responsible for:

- Ensuring the children and staff are safe on the premises.
- Develop strong partnerships with parents and other organisations that impact on children’s development.
- Managing staff in the setting and delegating jobs to them.
- Ensuring that all staff are supported in their role using supervision and coaching.
- Ensuring that staff working with children are suitable and have all safeguarding checks completed.
- Organising parent visits to the settings before a child is registered.
- Planning and delivering open days for potential parents.
- Reporting to the Trust Executive/Trust Board of the organisation

**Quality of Education**

To provide high quality education by:

- Supporting staff to implement the curriculum in line with the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework, Ofsted registration and inspection criteria.
- Coach staff so they are confident in planning, providing, and taking part in play-based activities that stimulate and support children’s intellectual, physical, social, emotional and language development.
- Ensuring staff are encouraging children to eat healthy foods and promote a healthy lifestyle.
- Updating policies and procedures in line with Ofsted and the EYFS Framework
- Ensuring that the assessment of children is accurate by quality assuring children’s progress with staff
- Making sure that all documentation is up to date and compliant to ensure better outcomes for children
- Liaising with parents so they can work in partnership with the setting.
- Attend meetings to further develop knowledge.
- Create and deliver a training plan for monthly staff training.
- Liaise with different services to ensure that children have the best opportunities that they can have.
- Have a good understanding of special educational needs so that children can be supported effectively.
- Coach staff so they have a good understanding of the areas of learning as outlined in the EYFS framework and the Characteristics of learning.

**Health & Safety**

To ensure a safe environment for children and staff by:

- Completing and updating risk assessments and ensuring all staff have a good understanding of them.
- Ensuring equipment is well maintained, age appropriate and safe to use.
- Replace any broken equipment
- Ensuring good hygiene standards are met.
- Following all safety procedures (including Child Protection)
- Ensuring that accidents, emergencies, and the administering of medication are dealt with according to policy and the necessary paperwork completed.

**Relationships and Communication**
- To build and maintain positive and professional relationships with parents/carers, schools, toddler groups, children’s centres, childminders, and any service related to the children.
- Ensure good working relationships with all staff.
- To ensure communication skills are modified according to audience.
- Ensure that appropriate communication methods are used when communicating with children, parents, carers, and fellow professionals
- Listen and value the opinions of staff.

**Safeguarding**

Safeguarding and child protection is at the centre of what we do. We expect Head of Nursery to:

- Ensure that they understand their duty to safeguard all children.
- Report any concerns to the designated safeguarding lead or deal with the concern if they are the DSL. Refer to MASH team where applicable.
- Ensure that staff can articulate the types of abuse that cause children to be at risk of harm and name the signs and symptoms associated with them.
- Ensure that staff have a good understanding of the PREVENT Duty, FGM and Breast Ironing and be able to discuss why these are relevant to a nursery setting.
- Ensure that staff demonstrate understanding around the British values.
- Ensure that staff can show an understanding of county lines and the changes in behaviour that we may see when we suspect this is happening.
- Support vulnerable families, particularly where children or adults are at risk of significant harm.

**Training**
- All staff are required to be knowledgeable with regards to child development and be proactive in seeking training opportunities when gaps in knowledge arise
- Be prepared to attend training sessions that are not on regular working days.

**Equality**
- All staff must understand their duty to be inclusive and must understand the Equalities Act 2010. They must be able to demonstrate their kn

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