Early Years Practitioner

**JOB DESCRIPTION - NURSERY PRACTITIONER**

**Purpose of Post**:
1. To provide nursery care ensuring the children are safe, cared for, stimulated and enjoy their day.
2. Provide a caring and loving environment for the children whilst their parents are not with them.
3. Confident to share own ideas and to listen and learn from others
4. Coordination of activities and events
5. Contribute engaging ideas for stimulating activities
6. Work as part of a team when developing ideas
7. Understand and empathise with parents’ points of view when dealing with children so that both the parent and the child feel heard and understood
8. Friendly and approachable personality for parents, children and other staff members
9. To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting.
10. Prepare children for a school environment
- work with school
11. To give support to their staff within the setting.
12. To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.
13. To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met.

**Responsible to**:
Nursery Manager/Deputy

**Main Duties**:

- To effectively deliver the EYFS ensuring that the individual needs and interest of children in the setting are met (in conjunction with other team members)
- To keep records of your key children’s development and learning journeys and share with parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life.
- Support all staff and engage in a good staff team.
- To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs.
- Knowledge of safeguarding arrangements for collection of children.
- Change nappies as and when required.
- Support and comfort children/ parents during settling in.
- Record accidents and share details with parents at the end of the session/day.
- To ensure the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children having an awareness of any disabilities, family cultures and medical histories.
- To advise manager/deputy of any concerns, e.g. over children, parents, the safety of the environment, preserving confidentiality as necessary.
- To be involved in out of working hours activities, e.g. training, termly staff meetings, committee meetings
- To be flexible within working practices of the setting, undertaking other responsible duties where needed, such as domestic tasks, preparation of snack meals, cleansing of equipment, etc.
- To work alongside the manager and staff team to ensure that the setting’s philosophy is fulfilled.
- To read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role and the safe running of the setting.
- To develop your role within the team, especially with regard to being a key person
- To keep completely confidential any information regarding the children, their families or other staff that is acquired as part of the job.
- To be aware of the high profile of the setting and to uphold its standards at all times, both in work hours and outside.
- To support nursery assistants, students and volunteers.
- To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.
- To undertake and support staff on additional responsibilities such as SENCO, training co-ordinator, safeguarding Officer etc

**Personnel Specification - Nursery Practitioner**

Attributes Criteria How Rank
Identified

Education 1. Minimum of a relevant and recognised A Essential and Training Level 3 qualification

2. Evidence of ongoing personal A & I Desirable development training

3. Desire to continue with professional development A & I Desirable

A & I Desirable
4. Recent Paediatric First Aid certificate A Desirable
5. Basic Food Hygiene A Desirable

Relevant 6. Experience in working with children A & I Essential
Experience 7. Experience of working in an early years A & I Desirable setting

8. Experience of implementation of EYFS A & I Desirable

9. Experience of working in partnership with A & I Desirable parents

General and 10. Knowledge of legislation relevant to Early A & I Essential
Special Years such as EYFS, SEN, safeguarding,
Knowledge Childcare Act 2006
11. Knowledge of Child Development and A & I Essential children’s needs
12. Ability to work with parents/carers/families A & I Essential to encourage partnership working

Skills and 13. Ability to communicate well with adults and A & I Essential
Abilities children

14. Ability to work as part of a team A Essential
15. Ability to write legibly A Desirable
16. Good presentation skills A Desirable
17. Possess a level of general computer literacy with a range of IT skills. A & I Desirable

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18. Good organisational skills A & I
19. Ability to demonstrate creative abilities A & I Desirable

Any 20. Understanding of Equal Opportunities A &