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Job Title: Nursery Practitioner

**Salary**: ranging from £23,018 - £26,383 per annum - based on qualifications and experience

Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (42.5 hrs)

Location: Cemetery Pales, Pirbright, GU24 0JT

**Full and Relevant Level 2 Childcare Qualification is essential**

Cherrywood Nursery are looking for a Level 2/ Level 3 Nursery Practitioner to join their growing team. Within this role you will be responsible for a designated group of children as a key person and will guide the children through the daily routine, liaise with parents and provide an enabling environment.

Our Cherrywood Nursery is open from 7.30am-18.30pm and we would require the availability of working varied shift patterns between those times. We have fantastic outdoor play opportunities, a dedicated baby garden, an indoor soft play room and we are an Ofsted Good Provider.

**Nursery Practitioner duties and responsibilities**:

- Ensure that each child’s individual needs are met and a high standard of professional care and education is delivered in a caring, safe and secure environment in which all children can play, learn and develop
- Observe, assess and plan an interesting, stimulating and challenging range of early years activities which supports each child’s individual learning and development needs and abilities
- Engage as a professional member of the team, exhibiting a flexible attitude and willingness to develop new skills
- Ensure that company policies and procedures are read, applied, reviewed regularly and adhered to by all
- Follow risk assessments diligently and report all health and safety matters to management
- Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

**Nursery Practitioner requirements and skills**:

- Full and relevant Level 2/Level 3 childcare qualification - essential
- Fluent in written and spoken English - essential
- Over 1 year’s experience of working in Early Years - desirable
- Knowledge of the Statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - desirable

**Benefits include**:

- Excellent career opportunities
- Staff parking
- Staff lunches and drinks
- Air-conditioned building
- Access to extensive online courses for personal development
- Discounted childcare
- Long service benefits after 3 years including: Health plan, Increased annual leave
- Birthday day off

We’re a family by name, and we’re a family by nature too. We are defined in many different ways, by many different people. Different cultures. Different ideas. Different ages, genders and skillsets. Whilst every individual will have their own definition of family, these definitions all come together to show Family First for who we are.

We are: _**Defined by Family**_
- CherryWood is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group._

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**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23,018.00-£26,383.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

School type:

- Day nursery

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Pirbright, GU24 0JT: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

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

Licence/Certification:

- Level 2 / Level 3 Childcare Qualification (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: GU24 0JT