Nursery Practitioner

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**_

Job Title: Nursery Practitioner

**Salary**: from £24,835.20 per annum

Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (40 hrs)

Location: Brookside, South Gorley, Fordingbridge, SP6 2PP

Our nursery is open from 7.30am - 18:00pm and we would require you to be able to work varied shift patterns between those times. We have four beautiful rooms for the children to work their way through whilst growing up and fantastic outdoor space, fields and forest school.

**Nursery Practitioner main responsibilities include**:

- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times
- Observe, support and extend children’s development, update the EyLog system and children’s learning journals with the highest quality and relevance
- Facilitate a strong key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and cover all children daily when colleagues are absent
- Report any child safeguarding or protection matters, including allegations and serious accidents/injuries to management
- Ensure daily that all resources, equipment and environments are safe and suited for children’s age and stage
- Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development
- Communicate with impartiality and consistency respecting parent/carers’ expectations and seek guidance from management if in doubt
- Treat all personal and sensitive information relating to staff, children, families, visitors, nursery or the company with utmost integrity and confidentiality

*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 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**:

- Family First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. On top of this we have discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends and family, access to a discount/perks platform with exceptional learning & development opportunities tailored to you.
- The Coach House Day Nursery 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

Pay: £24,835.20 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

School type:

- Day nursery

**Experience**:

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

Licence/Certification:

- Level 3 Childcare Qualification (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: SP6 1LX