Senior Nursery Practitioner Team Leader Room Leader

**What we’re looking for**:
*Check out our great new benefits below*

We’re looking for a Senior Nursery Practitioner (Team/Room Leader) to join our team. Our settings are in the countryside. Having your own transport is essential, as is the ability to work shifts between 07:15am and 6:15pm each day. This may be your first management role and a step up or you may be an experienced manager already.

**The Hours**

We’re looking for someone either full or part time. Our full-time hours are 40 hours, working shifts across a 5-day week. Our part time hours are negotiable but the ability to open or close the nursery is essential. We’re a family business so we understand you’ll need to work around your family too.

**Our New and Improved Key benefits**:

- Attendance bonus paid monthly
- Amazing discounts across retail, leisure and utilities
- Termly Employee Appreciation Incentives
- Wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme that offers phone, online and face to face support
- Your Birthday off after 1 years’ service
- Increased holiday allowance with length of service
- Discounted childcare across all of our sites and clubs of 50%
- Free parking on site
- Development opportunities in a rapidly growing company
- We will help and fund relevant study and qualifications

**The Company**

Kiddie Capers Childcare is a local, Mid-Sussex company, operating four Nurseries & Preschools and three Breakfast & After-School Clubs. We offer warm and friendly environments, where children feel safe and secure. Our settings are managed by highly competent managers who have many years’ experience of working within Nurseries and Preschools. All our settings operate open from 07:30am to 6:00pm. Kiddie Capers Childcare is owned and operated by, Naomi and Sarah. Both have many years in a variety of childcare roles.

**Our Aim**

At Kiddie Capers we give our children a safe, happy, and creative environment where children are inspired and develop an interest in new ideas and interests. We value their uniqueness and recognise their individual learning needs, so that they can grow in confidence and independence in preparation not only for school, but for life. Our stimulating learning conditions and challenging curriculum ensures each child achieves their full potential. We create a caring ethos, where we encourage respect for each other and for the environment, whilst adding to the life and well-being of our local community. Our strong partnerships with families and the wider local community, creates an open and welcoming surrounding that promotes equality and values diversity.

**Our Values**
- Celebrating Diversity
- Respect & Empathy for the Individual
- Quality of Care
- A Passion for Integrity
- Teamwork

**Main Duties**
- Ensuring that high standards of care and education are provided to the children. This includes ensuring that the following policies and procedures are upheld:

- Staff effectively deployed throughout the nursery
- Fire equipment checks including smoke alarm testing
- Daily fire escape route checks
- Ensure food hygiene standards are being maintained
- Ensure security of the children and premises are upheld
- Liasing with parents/carers as appropriate
- Accurately maintain the nursery’s database, registers and documentation concerning health and safety and child protection
- Uphold the nursery’s confidentiality policy
- Ensure that the nursery’s planning for the individual needs of each child is maintained to a high standard
- Any other task that could be reasonably expected of a manager
- Deputise for the Nursery Manager in their absence.
- Understand and fully implement the nursery’s policies and procedures
- Oversee the implementation and delivery of the EYFS
- Participate in professional development and training
- Mentor staff to ensure the policies and values of the nursery management are understood and implemented
- Share good childcare practice with colleagues, display exemplary behaviour and act as a role model to junior staff
- Provide high quality care and activities for children which recognise both individual and group requirements in a secure, safe and stimulating environment
- Organise activities, both inside and outside the nursery, which encourages creativity, development, co-ordination, independence, self-expression, and learning through play.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the EYFS framework (including the Safeguarding & Welfare Requirements), for guidance in your practice.
- Work in partnership with parents and carers, recognising that parents are their children’s first educators, and encourage parental involvement in the nursery
- Be aware of Safeguarding issues and follow the nursery’s Safeguarding procedures
- Ensure close monitoring of children about whom there are concerns.
- Work in partnership with other early years professionals and outside agencies.
- Prepare and serve food and drinks for children, encouraging good nutrition and s