Nursery Practitioner Unqualified

**Here at Busy Bees in Bicester we are looking for an Unqualified Nursery Practitioner to join our team.**

**The Role**
As an Unqualified Practitioner, you will be working **full time (40 hours per week) **whilst role modelling your knowledge and best practice to colleagues and ensuring our children have the best start in life.

**Benefits**:

- Childcare provision with **substantial childcare discounts.**:

- Excellent **in-house training**, opportunity to** gain further qualifications, virtual learning **and **career progression** opportunities.
- ** Exclusive access to UP**; Busy Bees unique early years learning programme.
- ** Retail Discounts Scheme **via an online benefits portal.

**Our Nursery**:

- Clos to Bicester North railway station and local bus routes
- _ Good Ofsted rating_
- Long standing, warm and friendly staff team

**Essential Qualifications & Experience**:

- Previous experience working and caring for children under 5 years (preferred).
- A willingness to undertake relevant childcare qualifications in the future (preferred).
- Passion to deliver high quality childcare and exciting learning opportunities.
- As a keyworker, you will ensure every individual child’s needs are met, including supporting parents with any SEND/ASL needs.
- Prioritise the safeguarding of children.
- Speak up against practices that don’t support safeguarding or our core values.
- Attend parents evening, recruitment/open day events and relevant training sessions.
- Build close relationships with parents and carers and report daily on their child’s time at Nursery.
- Take ownership of the observation, assessments and planning for your key children in line with EYFS and provide developmentally challenging next steps.
- Remain up to date with our childcare policies and procedures.
- Be a key player to ensure the nursery receives excellent outcomes in internal audits and those of external authorities such as Ofsted, CI and CIW.
- Maintain staff to child ratios.
- Ensure we encourage and praise children’s development and achievements.