Lead Early Years Educator

3 days ago

Portishead, United Kingdom Storal Full time

**Lead Early Years Educator**
- Honeytree Portishead Nursery School by Storal
- Somerset, Portishead, BS20 6BQ
- Lead Early Years Educator
- Full Time, 40 hours per week

**About the Nursery**:
At Honeytree, staff provide high quality childcare and build strong relationships with both children and parents. Just off the hustle and bustle of the high street, but close to the beautiful marina, Honeytree provides a space for children to grow and learn with help from our attentive team.

**About Storal**:
At Storal each and every child represents a new and exciting story. And everything we do in our growing nursery group is about allowing that story to develop with richness and purpose. By sharing knowledge and ideas across our community of settings, we provide our nurseries with proven and reliable support structures. We empower every member of the team to concentrate on what they really love - understanding children and helping their special stories unfold.

**About you**:
We are looking for a passionate and ambitious Lead Senior Early Years Educator to work in partnership with the Manager and Deputy to ensure all children attending the setting are kept safe and receive rich and stimulating play experiences appropriate to their age and stage of development.

You will also assist with the daily running of the nursery, adhering to the Policies & Procedures of the Setting and Storal, in compliance with the Children Act, Health and Safety legislation and within the guidelines of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

**Main responsibilities**
- Observes, supports and extends children’s learnings, utilising highly effective teaching strategies;;
- Appropriately plans individual learning experiences for children under the EYFS curriculum;
- Maintains accurate and up-to-date children’s records;
- Take on key person responsibilities for a group of children;
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with colleagues, parents and/or carers, as well as other professionals, to meet the needs of each child;
- Leads, motivates and inspires their room team, keeping the team engaged and performing to consistently high levels
- Be the third in command in the nursery, after the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager. Managing/deputising in the absence of the Nursery Manager/Deputy Manager. On these occasions holding overall responsibility for the day to day management of the nursery including safeguarding and child protection policies within the nursery;
- Assist the Manager in identifying areas of change and in implementing learning and teaching objectives;
- Promote the nursery to both current parents, and potential customers, to support retention and ongoing occupancy growth.
- Supervises staff and conduct supervisions and appraisals where appropriate under the guidance of the Manager/Deputy Manager.

**Specific measures of success**:

- **Individual care**: Ensures every child experience a safe and stimulating nursery experience based on their individual needs;
- **Record keeping**:Always ensures children’s records are up to date;
- **Leadership**:Manages and supervises junior staff members, motivating them to improve their practice;
- **Parent partnership**:Develops a strong relationship with parents, building a reputation of trust.

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- Minimum Level 3 qualified
- First Aid Certification required
- Excellent knowledge of EYFS and experience of working with children and families
- Extensive knowledge of safeguarding
- Managing and maintaining administration requirements

**Terms and Conditions**:
**Salary**: £23,920 per year based on experience

Salaries are usually reviewed in April. You will normally be eligible for a salary review after completing one year’s service.

**Benefits**:

- 50% childcare discount
- Performance related pay & annual pay reviews
- Nursery performance related bonuses
- Annual wellness day off
- Access to Perkbox, a platform with a variety of retail and leisure discounts
- Company sick pay
- Opportunities for team building and celebrating success including the annual Storal awards
- Dedicated learning and development support
- Holidays increasing to 22 days after 2 years’ service and 25 days after 5 years' service
- Unlimited £500 refer a friend bonus
- Access to one-to-one confidential counselling sessions through our Employee Assistance Programme
- Honeytree Portishead Nursery School by Storal
- Somerset, Portishead, BS20 6BQ
- Lead Early Years Educator
- Full Time, 40 hours per week

**Salary**: Up to £23,920.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Portishead, BS20 6BQ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Nursery: 1 year (preferred)
- Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
- Management: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location

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