Nursery Practitioner

**What we’re looking for**:

- Tuesday: 0800 - 1730
- Wednesday: 0800 - 1730
- Thursday: 0800 - 1730
- Friday : 0800 - 1330

**Key benefits**:

- Attendance bonus paid monthly.
- Amazing discounts across retail, leisure and utilities
- Termly Employee Appreciation Incentives
- Wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme that offers phone, online and face to face support
- Your Birthday off after 1 years’ service
- Increased holiday allowance with length of service
- Discounted childcare across all of our sites and clubs of 50%
- Free parking on site
- Development opportunities in a rapidly growing company
- We will help and fund relevant study and qualifications

**The Company**

Kiddie Capers Childcare are a growing, Mid-Sussex group, with multiple Nurseries & Preschools. We are owned and operated by two local families. At Kiddie Capers we give our children a safe, happy, and creative environment where they are inspired and encouraged to develop new ideas and interests. We value their uniqueness and recognise their individual learning needs, so that they can grow in confidence and independence in preparation not only for school, but for life. Our stimulating learning conditions and challenging curriculum ensures each child achieves their full potential. We create a caring ethos, where we encourage respect for each other and for the environment, whilst adding to the life and well-being of our local community. Our strong partnerships with families and the wider local community, creates an open and welcoming surrounding that promotes equality and values diversity.

At Kiddie Capers we truly believe in living our values every day, our values are,
- Celebrating Diversity
- Respect & Empathy for the Individual
- Quality of Care
- A Passion for Integrity
- Teamwork

**Main duties**:

- Provide high quality care and activities for and children which recognise both individual and group requirements in a secure, safe, and stimulating environment.
- Organise activities, both inside and outside the nursery, which encourages creativity, development, co-ordination, independence, self-expression, and learning through play.
- Participate in the keyperson system and be responsible for a group of children. Monitor, assess, record and report on their development and progress.
- Follow the Early Years Foundation Stage framework for guidance in your practice with the children.
- Work in partnership with parents and carers, recognising that parents are their children’s first educators, and encourage parental involvement in the nursery.
- Prepare and serve food, milk, drink, and snacks to children, encouraging good nutrition and sociable eating.
- Assist children with personal care, including changing nappies, assisting with potty training and other associated welfare duties.

Pay: £12.50-£13.50 per hour

Expected hours: 34 per week

Schedule:

- Day shift
- No weekends

School type:

- Day nursery

Application question(s):

- Do you live within a 10 mile radius of the Nursery?
- Are you able to work all hours as stated in job description?

Work Location: In person