Childcare Practitioner

We are looking for a qualified childcare practitioner who has immense pride in their work and can demonstrate excellent practice and loving care towards the children in our nursery; with a sense of fun and humour. You would be working with our wonderful well-trained and long serving experienced staff team. We have a great reputation in Worthing with both childcare professionals and parents; we are looking for that person who can help us maintain this and achieve even more. We love to embrace new ideas and welcome different views and experiences. If you feel you are that person, helping us to be the best we can be, then we would be delighted to hear from you. Level 3 or equivalent in Childcare and Education is a minimum qualification requirement.

**General responsibilities**:

- To observe all nursery policies, procedures and working practices
- To work in collaboration with all stakeholders to achieve the nursery’s aims
- To strive towards continuous improvement throughout the nursery setting
- To undertake any other duties which are reasonable within the scope and grade of this post
- To ensure the effective implementation of the Nursery’s Inclusion and Equality Policy and supporting action plans
- To effectively steer the delivery of high quality education for all children in our care
- To act as an ambassador for the Nursery in all aspects of work.
- To be aware of the high profile and good reputation of the nursery and to uphold its standard at all times
- To be a good role model for all children and staff members
- To be responsible for implementing published nursery policy to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all staff coming on site and for ensuring that staff, students and visitors are provided with appropriate information, instructions and supervision to ensure safe working practices within the Nursery

**The Care and Education of the children**:

- To ensure a high standard of care is provided for all the children at the nursery
- To help plan and implement activities suitable to the age range of the children attending nursery, making sure that the Early Years Foundation Stage framework is applied
- To carry out observations, assess children’s learning and complete children’s Learning Journeys and written reports
- To ensure that play meets the needs of every child, taking into account their race, culture, age and ability
- To actively assist in all aspects of childcare and welfare of the children in the nursery

**Communication**:

- To work with and support other members of the team within the nursery
- To liaise with and/or support parents/carers and other family members
- To inform management of any concerns or problems with the children, parents or other members of staff
- To welcome children and their parents/ carers with a smile, a friendly greeting and to settle the children into nursery making them feel happy
- To be aware of the requirements of the Data Protection Act and other legislation, ensuring confidentiality of information at all times in accordance with Nursery policy
- To record, report and circulate as appropriate all messages to ensure an effective means of communication between staff and parents
- To attend and contribute towards staff meetings as required
- To attend, participate in and contribute to training sessions and to feed back new skills and knowledge to colleagues
- To maintain development reports on your own key children and support other staff members in the completion of their work
- To offer support and guidance for other Practitioners, students and volunteers/visitors who may be working in your group
- To maintain effective working relations with parents/carers, professionals in other agencies and other individuals involved with the Nursery

**Setting**:

- To implement the daily Nursery routine, leading by example
- To manage, maintain and clean play equipment and materials, ensuring they are in a safe condition for the children to use
- To undertake domestic duties within the nursery, such as preparing snacks, maintaining the cleaning rota etc

**Health & Safety**:

- To observe at all times the correct Health and Safety procedures complying with the Nursery policies for Health and Safety
- To comply with all Nursery policies including Security, Fire, Health and Safety, Safeguarding Children, Sick Children, Medicine, Discipline and any policies required by OFSTED
- To provide comfort, warmth and care for a sick child, making arrangements for a child’s parent/carer to be contacted
- To provide immediate attention for any child suffering an accident and to ensure appropriate first aid is received

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

**Salary**: From £9.50 per hour

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- WORTHING: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location