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Early Years Practitioner

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Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom Bright Horizons Family Solutions Full time
Job Title: Child Care and Nursery Early Years Practitioner

This role is crucial in delivering high-quality engagement with children, supporting their developmental needs, and ensuring the highest levels of supervision are maintained. The successful candidate will support and maintain our Keeping Everyone Safe policies and procedures and continuously demonstrate and adhere to safe working practices.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support the observation and assessment standards in line with regulatory requirements and Bright Beginnings, Bright Horizons curriculum to ensure a child-centred approach.
  • Work in partnership with parents to support the observation and planning process to ensure this meets the needs of all children in line with the Quality Assurance Framework.
  • Role model behaviour in line with our HEART principles and Bright Promise to deliver exceptional care and education.
  • Support the room leader and Early Childhood Specialists to drive continuous improvement and embed inspirational early years pedagogy of the highest standard and secure regulatory compliance with better than National Average inspection outcomes in the UK.
  • Share and articulate the attributes of the Bright Horizons brand, securing Bright Horizons as the provider of choice for families, corporate clients, and employees.
  • Deliver the highest care and education standards and ensure secure knowledge and understanding of Policies and Procedures and child development and knowledge of EYFS and Bright Beginning curriculum and regulatory standards.
  • Ensure internal policies and procedures and legislation from governing bodies are adhered to and demonstrate your knowledge through high standards of practice.
  • Deliver and support the Bright Beginnings, Bright Horizons curriculum to ensure a child-centred approach to operating all aspects of the nursery, and support the observation and planning process meets the needs of all children in line with the Quality Assurance Framework.
  • Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication with all stakeholders of the nursery and wider Bright Horizons community including parents, professionals, and colleagues.
  • Ensure Keeping Everyone Safe policies and procedures and continuously demonstrate behaviours that underpin a high performing safety culture.
  • Understand the referral processes when necessary to engage with professionals to support a child referral.
  • Actively promote and support charities including the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children.
  • Attend staff meetings and training to ensure a continuation of personal professional development to ensure your knowledge and skills are up to date, full, and relevant to the role of Bright Flex Practitioner.
  • Promote and follow guidelines implemented for managing behaviour including supporting children to manage their own feelings.
  • Ensure the children you care for are fully supervised and remain safe and well, and you lead by example and drive the culture of Safeguarding Children.
  • Provide strong clear communication and partnership with your team members to ensure you are meeting the needs of all of the children within your care.
  • Demonstrate a clear understanding of efficient staff deployment and child supervision in line with policies and procedures and with regulatory standards.
  • Supervise and support the preparation of meal times in line with policies and procedures to ensure high supervision of children is maintained at all times.
  • Risk assess all areas a child can access to ensure all areas of the nursery are safe for children and remove any risks identified. Lead by example in daily tasks of keeping children safe.
  • Fulfil their roles, responsibilities, and legislative duty in relation to safeguarding children by ensuring that you have read, understood, and implemented the Safeguarding Policies and Procedures.
  • Ensure that you have completed Child Protection training every two years as set out in the Child Protection Policy and that this training impacts on your ability to safeguard the children in your care.
  • Undertake suitable professional development activities and opportunities for personal growth within a culture of self-driven development and expertise in all aspects of nursery development and learning, to maintain a highly effective, motivated, and innovative team member with perspectives of 'best practice'.
  • Delivery of the highest quality Early Childhood practice and experiences for all children in the setting, including those with Special Educational Needs and/or Disability, promoting emotional well-being by embedding the Bright Horizons early years curriculum.
  • Highly motivated and driven, supporting with information for children's record keeping and assessments.
  • Supporting with the completion of accurate and effective assessments, which reflect the needs, interests, and stages of development of the child by effective delivery of the key person approach.
  • Support to ensure children within your key person group are meeting their milestones for personal development.
  • To provide support for your colleagues within the nursery and across the broader business when required.
  • Attendance at staff meetings and training sessions to ensure continuous professional development.
  • Proven ability to work as part of a team to ensure essential day-to-day tasks are completed in line with nursery demands, i.e., hygiene standards and room preparation.
  • Sound understanding of child protection and safeguarding children.
  • Knowledge of the early year's curriculum and regulatory requirements.
  • Experience of food preparation and the completion of relevant training linked to food management.
  • Work experience within the Early Years Sector.
  • Knowledge of Local Authority and Regulatory requirements and inspection processes across the UK.
  • Working within policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
  • Specific experience of working within the 0-2 years age group in accordance with the regulatory requirements if required.
  • Full and relevant level 3 or above childcare qualification (Essential).
  • Food Hygiene or equivalent training and compliance in food management (Can be completed as part of induction).
  • Relevant safeguarding/child protection training undertaken and a willingness to update training regularly (Can be completed as part of inductions).
  • Able to communicate clearly with adults and children using a variety of techniques (oral and in writing).
  • Ability to support and inspire children in achieving the highest standards of care and education.

Requirements:

  • Full and relevant level 3 or above childcare qualification (Essential).
  • Food Hygiene or equivalent training and compliance in food management (Can be completed as part of induction).
  • Relevant safeguarding/child protection training undertaken and a willingness to update training regularly (Can be completed as part of inductions).
  • Able to communicate clearly with adults and children using a variety of techniques (oral and in writing).
  • Ability to support and inspire children in achieving the highest standards of care and education.

What We Offer:

  • A competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
  • A supportive and collaborative work environment.
  • The opportunity to work with a leading provider of childcare and education services.