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Play Buddy/meal Time Assistant

4 months ago


Totnes, United Kingdom Daisy and Rainbow Childcare Full time

This is a blended post designed to offer a permanent post to someone who wants to engage in play with young children alongside supporting the team over the busy mealtime period.

Rainbow Nursery, based in the centre of Totnes, opens each weekday from 8am-5pm and provides care for children from 3 months to 4 years old. The nursery is managed in partnership with the Daisy Pre-school, a sessional pre-school, which is based at the Daisy Play Centre in Bridgetown, Totnes. Daisy and Rainbow Childcare have a strong ethos towards allowing a child to explore, play and learn through open ended play resources which allows creativity and a strengthening of a positive self-image. We know that a child’s family and the environment they live in will shape the child, so we are keen to get to know the family and work with them as closely as possible. The children all play together regardless of their age to enable the younger children to learn from the older children and to encourage care for each other.

**Brief Description of the Job**

This is an exciting opportunity to dip your toes into the world of Early Years. Your time will be spent at play with the children at their level. You will bring enthusiasm, a sense of fun and playfulness and energy with you. You will enjoy the company of children under the age of 5 years including babies and toddlers. You will be working under the direction of the Family Team Lead to support play experiences for our children. You will enjoy singing, building blocks, getting messy, sharing stories, spending time outside at play and you will be happy to have a phone conversation with a child with a banana pressed up to your ear We will ask you to take the lead with organising our lunch areas - tidying toys away, sweeping, setting up tables and chairs, bringing the food to table from our cook, joining in with conversations with our littlies, then wiping down, sweeping and re-setting up for play.

**Key Tasks**

**Play and Learning**

**Under the supervision and mentorship of the Team Lead.**
- provide and support play experiences with playfulness, care for the children and enthusiasm for their development.
- bring an enthusiasm for play and willingness to co-play with the children, scaffolding and developing their learning through your interactions with them.
- work directly children aged from 3 months to 4 years old providing learning opportunities through play.
- listen carefully to children’s needs and meet them in an appropriate manner enabling children to develop and grow in a safe and caring environment.
- be able to respond with ease to the needs of all children in the nursery’s care as the nursery encourages all age groups to integrate freely across the full provision.
- work alongside a wider team of colleagues in close communication to ensure the care and play needs of all children are met.
- Get involved with singing, messy play, garden play and storytelling sessions with small groups of children.

**Care Needs**

**Under the supervision and mentorship of the Team Lead.**
- ensure that all the care needs of the children are met -hand washing, helping with clothes, nose wiping, and alerting the keyperson to the need to toilet or nappy change.
- Take a primary responsibility for leading the practical dining experience for the children at lunchtime
- To progress to being able to change a child’s wet clothes and to assist with toileting and nappy changing following a successful 3 month induction period.

**Care for the Nursery Environment**

**Under the supervision and mentorship of the Team Lead.**
- actively support the ongoing cleaning and sanitising of play resources and the environment as required.
- Ensure all areas of the nursery are maintained at a high level of cleanliness - this to include filling and emptying the dishwasher, wiping down kitchen surfaces, cleaning down highchairs, tables, and chairs, sweeping floors and tidying after messy play sessions.
- Work with colleagues to fill the washing machine, ensure laundry is dried, folded and then ready for use
- be very alert and responsive to any potential play or safety hazards throughout the course of the day.

**General**
- To demonstrate anti-discriminatory and anti
- racist attitudes in all areas of work
- To be able to recognise potential child protection issues and share this with the responsible keyperson.
- To work to high health and safety standards
- To participate in supervision with your mentor
- To liaise effectively with other team colleagues
- Support the display of children’s work and visual resources which will aid play and learning.
- To support any fundraising and celebratory events during the working day, being willing to join in, dress up and take a part in full spirit.
- To adhere to all policies

The above is an outline of the range of duties expected of a MTA Play Buddy for the time being to indicate the level of responsibility. It is not a comprehensive or exclusive list and duties may be v