Part Time Early Years Practitioner

**Full Job Description**:
**We're on a mission to give our colleagues an amazing work/life balance**

**At OFG we are trialling the 4 day working week, Syon Nursery will be rolling this out once we have gone through our exciting period of growth and are fully staffed - there has never been a more exciting time to join us.**

Are you looking for a rewarding career in Early Years? Become a Early years Practitioner
- Part Time at Syon Nursery part of Options Autism and start working towards yours.

**Why join us?**
- £16,373.50 per annum (£11.45 ph)
- 27.5 hours per week; Monday to Friday, 12.30 - 6pm
- Permanent
- Free On-Site Training - we offer training to deliver therapeutic interventions through our occupational therapists and speech and language therapists
- Development - We value all of our staff, if you are looking to develop your career we offer many opportunities whether that be within our nursery or one of our specialist schools
- Apprenticeships - We offer Apprenticeships in Level 3 and can even offer management apprenticeships when the time is right

Syon Nursery is a brand-new nursery specialising in providing both care and education for children with neurodevelopmental diversity and will be closely support by our established regional clinical and wellbeing team. The Early Years facilities contains three separate rooms which holds a maximum of 15 children per room. Due to being a specialist nursery, staff ratios are matched to the children's needs.

Syon Nursery is based in Isleworth, London.

**The opportunity**

Enjoy a rewarding education career and have a real impact on children and young people’s lives. Join an amazing team creating supportive, nurturing environments where our pupils achieve far more than they ever expected.

As a Early Years Practitioner, you will connect directly with the brilliant children and young people we care for, helping to make sure they get the very best from their education. Individually they may have a diagnosis of SEN or in the process of being assessed for identified areas of SEN. They have so much potential, and they will rely on you to guide their learning journeys bespoke to them.

You will help prepare learning materials and run classroom activities, with plenty of hands-on experience and some supervision too. You will take responsibility for their emotional and physical needs, supporting them to develop as individuals and engage with the world.

You will face challenges and overcome them as you flourish and thrive, sharing your skills and learning from others as your career takes you as high as you always dreamed you could go.

Every day will be different, but you will have all the support you need, with lots of skills and experience to draw on along with valuable advice and guidance too.

**Who we are looking for**
- Level 3 qualified with good knowledge of the EYFs (if you are level 2 looking to develop into your level 3 qualification we would still like to hear from you as we have apprenticeship opportunities)
- Must have worked in Early Years setting as a keyworker to children
- Must have experience of carrying out planned activities linked to children interest and curriculum, managing children learning journeys and ensuring the safety and welfare of children.
- Have experience of working in a team and sharing ideas.
- Have a passion for working with neurodiverse children.

You will be adaptable and ready to work in a variety of classroom roles, both indoors and outside according to individual need. Taking a responsive and caring approach, you may be running classroom activities, leading outdoor experiences or supervising children as they explore further afield.

**Why join Options Autism?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.**

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