Qualified Room Leader

To be a leader of a team, you need to be providing an emotionally secure, warm, stimulating and safe environment, appropriate to the needs of individual children. There must be excellent knowledge of the Early Years foundation stage and you need to implement these in your daily work.

This is a basic job description that must be implemented at all times.

Main Duties and responsibilities

• Over viewing planning sheets and record keeping of all the staff in your room
• Ensuring routines are being followed and run smoothly
• Ensuring new decisions are taken on board and maintained in the room at all times
• Ensuring all staff in the room has all information
• Ensuring that all relevant handovers happen between rooms and pegs are completed before children start.
• Ensuring that all policies and procedures are being followed by all staff
• Keeping minutes of room meetings
• Being an excellent role model to the other staff in your room
• Understanding all policies and procedures of the nursery and being able to answer relevant questions from parents/carers/outside agencies (i.e OFSTED)
• Manage staff effectively, ensuring ratios are maintained throughout the setting.
• Overseeing the professionalism of all staff/students in the setting
• Working with students and their supervisor, passing on your knowledge to them, practically and theoretically.
• Ensuring the students allocated to your room are aware of and comply with the policies and procedures of the setting
• Welcoming all children and parents to the nursery and helping them settle.(irrespective of their rooms)
• To provide a wide and varied range of activities for the children individually and as a group appropriate to their needs and developmental stage.
• Laying out and setting up the nursery and storing away equipment appropriately.
• Explaining activities to children and providing help if necessary.
• To encourage the children with their language development and positive verbal response.
• To organise creative activities and displays for the walls and help display the children's work.
• Maintain a clean and tidy nursery and garden area and ensure books, toys and equipment are clean and in good order.
• Encourage and supervise clearing and tidy up time
• Provide a high standard of health and hygiene
• Change nappies and encourage children with toilet training and personal hygiene
• Help children at meal times and then tidy and clear away afterwards- keep the children clean
• Act as a key person for a group of children as allocated by the management team, ensuring attachment theories are respected.
• Have a sound knowledge of all the children in the setting and an excellent knowledge of your key children.
• Work in partnership with parents, consulting and sharing information with them about the needs and progress of their children.
• Filling in all the appropriate record keeping for your key child and ensure they are continually up to date
• Attend and participate in staff meetings.
• To undertake training and give appropriate feedback to the staff team and implement this in your work
• To take responsibility for aspects of the work of the nursery as required by the management team
• To ensure adherence to the nursery's child care procedures and policies within all aspects of the work in the nursery
• Ensuring all staff adhering to the policies and procedures of the setting.
• To exercise a general duty of care for work colleagues and to be responsible for ensuring a safe working environment for all employees/students under your supervision
• Inform the management team of any concerns regarding the children, parents or other staff
• It is every member of staff responsibility to ensure professionalism and confidentiality are adhered to at all times.
• Oversee the professionalism of all staff/ students
• We are an equal opportunities employer and you need you as a supervisor to promote this within this setting.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,500.00-£29,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension

Experience:

• Room Leader: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person