Nursery Assistant

**Cherrybrook Nursery**

**Nursery Assistant**

**42.5 hours per week**

**Monday - Friday, All year round**

**Experience working within Early Years is essential**

**Salary ranging from £16,653 - £23,128 per annum depending on experience and qualifications**

Cherrybrook Nursery are seeking an Nursery Assistant to join their team. Within this role you will provide the highest standard of compliance, care and education for children and effectively manage daily operations of the nursery, including positive partnerships with management, colleagues and parents.

**Nursery Assistant main duties and responsibilities**:

- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times.
- Understand the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS and staff:child ratios.
- Provide engaging and purposeful experiences, environments, and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
- Facilitate a strong key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and cover all children daily when colleagues are absent.
- Observe and support children’s development, update the EyLog system and children’s learning journals with accuracy and relevance, and seek guidance from colleagues or Room Leader if in doubt.
- Provide the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development.

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

**Nursery Assistant requirements and skills**:

- Undertaking a full and relevant Level 2 or Level 3 childcare qualification - desirable
- Fluent in written and spoken English - essential.
- Over 6 months experience of working in Early Years - essential.
- Knowledge of the Statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - desirable

**Benefits of working for Cherrybrook Nursery**:

- Excellent career opportunities
- Wide range of in-house delivered training courses
- Access to extensive online courses for personal development
- Discounted childcare
- Flexible working
- Enrolled in nursery rewards programme
- Long service benefits after 3 years including: discretionary sick pay, health plan and increased annual leave
- Birthday day off
- Red letter day rewards

If you want to be part of our fun and dynamic team, please contact us for more details
- Cherrybrook Nursery is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group._
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**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £16,653.00-£23,128.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

School type:

- Day nursery

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Addlestone, KT15 3HQ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Nursery: 1 year (required)
- Childcare: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person