Nursery 3rd in Charge

5 months ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Shelford Day Nursery Full time

**Job Title**: Third in Charge

**Responsible to**: Nursery Manager

**Salary**: £34,000

**Main Purpose of Job**:

- To ensure a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children.
- To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare and safety is promoted.
- To inspire outstanding practice and share knowledge and understanding of children’s care, learning and development and give support to other team members within their immediate room and within the wider Nursery.
- To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children learn and develop through play.
- To possess the highest standards and latest knowledge of practice and serve as an example to the other practitioners within the setting.
- To have full regard to the requirements of the Statutory Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage.
- To work within all the rooms directly with the children as required to meet the need of the nursery.
- To take charge of the nursery for short or long-term periods in the absence of the Manager & Deputy Manager.

**Safeguarding**:

- All staff must have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities.

**Main Responsibilities and Tasks**:

- Deputise to the Nursery Deputy Manager and adopt overall management responsibility in the event of their absence/ the absence of both the Manager and Deputy Manager
- Show perspective families around the setting.
- Support the leadership team to implement the EYFS by working directly with children, families, practitioners and other professionals from within and beyond the setting.
- Support the Leadership team to motivate, inspire and lead the team of early years’ practitioners.
- Support and mentor staff/trainees in the skills and behaviour that safeguard and promote good outcomes for children.
- To support colleagues to have the specific knowledge and skills required to work effectively with children aged 0-24 months/24-36 months/37 to 59 months.
- To use specific training/knowledge and skills required to work effectively with children aged 0-24 months/24-36 months/37 to 59 months.
- To follow and lead the curriculum policy within the team and monitor the effectiveness of practice of key persons within the room including the delivery of high-quality STEM experiences as part of daily provision.
- To keep records of your key children’s development and learning journeys, share this with parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life and organise parent reviews in conjunction with the EYFS Coordinator.
- To coach and mentor the team with existing and new initiatives.
- Support all staff to engage in good team work.
- To support all team members with early identification and intervention for children with emerging needs. Give physical, emotional and intellectual guidance as appropriate.
- Ensure that all children receive progress checks as laid out in the EYFS and that these are shared with parents in an appropriate and timely manner.
- Support the team in this area to ensure that they have the skills and knowledge to complete the two-year-old development checks effectively.
- Undertake appropriate supervision meetings for all members within your team in conjunction with the nursery management approach.
- Feed into appraisals, settings targets, and Nursery operations as deemed appropriate by the management team.
- Attend regular Room Leader meetings.
- Lead team meetings within the room.
- Support team members to seek out any training or support they may require to fulfil their roles and responsibilities.
- Support new team members through inductions and in partnership with the management team.
- Ensure that all record keeping is accurate and up to date within your designated area, including learning journeys of all children within your room, sleep chart, bathroom checks, accident forms, daily risk assessments and any other forms that support the learning, development and welfare of the children.
- Liaise with other professionals.
- To be responsible for good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness with the room and ensure that the safety standards are appropriate for the needs of young children.
- To ensure confidentiality of all information received by all team members in your area.
- Lead changes linked to environment plans based upon children current level of learning
- To have a knowledge of and adhere to all Health and Safety Regulations.
- To attend meetings as required and participate in training opportunities and performance development.
- To be accountable for the delivery of the above responsibilities and tasks.
- To undertake any duties set to you by the Management Team that will assist in the day-to-day running of the Nursery.

**Specific childcare tasks**
- To support and facilitate in the moment planning and the continuous provision, prepare and complete activities indoors and outdoors to support all children’s individual responses and next ste



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