Pre-school Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Preston, United Kingdom Ashbridge Nursery at Maxy Farm Full time

Are you **passionate** about **children**, and playing an **important role** in their ongoing **development**?

We are looking for an experienced, qualified **Pre School practitioner **to join our wonderful Pre School Team.

As part of your role, you will be responsible for providing a stimulating learning environment to support our children's continuing learning and development, as well as supporting their emotinal wellbeing, and making strong parent partnerships with their families.

Our Pre School team is made up of experienced and qualified teachers/practitioners that work closely together to provide the very best education for our children. You will be working alongside our experienced qualified Pre School Teacher.

We passionately believe in supporting our team's continued professional development, and invest heavily in training courses. We also have a strong supervision/appraisal system.

In line with the new EYFS and 'Development Matters' that were introduced in September 2021, we have reviewed our procedures to remove unnecessary paperwork and workload for our practitioners. The observation and assessment procedure has been completely streamlined meaning that practitioners are expected to do mínimal paperwork. Instead, they are encouraged to spend quality time with their key children.

We are lucky to be based in a wonderful new purpose built setting with:

- Sensory room
- Outdoor kitchen garden
- Extensive gardens and outdoor spaces
- Forest School area
- Sandcastle adventure playground
- Indoor hall
- Dining hall
- Atelier art studio
- Chicken coop, and wildlife pond
- Library
- Role play room

As an employee of Ashbridge there are many rewards. These include a Pension scheme, generous welcome bonus, generous attendance bonuses, 50% employee discount for nursery places, referal bonuses, free lunches, 20% discount at onsite cafe and beauty/hair salon, onsite employee parking.

We pride ourselves on being a very **friendly **place to work, with a strong emphasis on employee support and team work

Ashbridge is the leading childcare provider in Preston, and as an established company, we can offer the chance of **significant career progression** across the nursery and school.

Generous £250 welcome bonus

**4 day week** (with either Monday or Friday off)

38 hours, 10 hour shift, shift patterns either:

- 7am until 5pm
- 7.30am until 5.30pm
- 8am until 6pm
- Either a Monday of Friday as day off
- Not term-time (open during school holidays)

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

**Salary**: From £10.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Signing bonus

Work Location: One location



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