Nursery Practitioner

Job Description: Level 3 Nursery Practitioner **Salary**: £27,352.00 per annum Hours: 40 hours per week **Ellingham Day Nursery **are seeking a skilled and passionate Room Leader to join their dedicated team. **About us**: Ellingham House Day Nursery is set idyllically in a Georgian country house surrounded by 2.5 acres of lawns and woodland. In this safe space, our children have the opportunity to explore, stretch, and run as well as practice their climbing and balancing skills in the ever popular ‘bear cave’. The paddock is home to our friendly Valais Black Nose sheep - Baarbara and Soozie. The children help the team care for them and learn how to stay safe around animals. The nursery has a real ‘home from home’ feel, with welcoming rooms specifically suited to babies, toddlers and preschoolers. The nursery is open 8:00am-6:00pm and we would require you to work a minimum of 40 hours per week within those hours. Please note the nursery is **not** a term time only nursery. **Nursery Reviews**: "The nursery is home from home and we couldn't have asked for a more professional, robust, and family environment to help prepare our son for his educational journey" "We love Ellingham's premises with lots of activities to do (weather dependent) and their staff" "The nursery is home from home and we couldn't have asked for a more professional, robust, and family environment to help prepare our son for his educational journey" **Early Years Practitioner duties and responsibilities**: - Ensure that each child’s individual needs are met and a high standard of professional care and education is delivered in a caring, safe and secure environment in which all children can play, learn and develop - Observe, assess and plan an interesting, stimulating and challenging range of early years activities which supports each child’s individual learning and development needs and abilities - Engage as a professional member of the team, exhibiting a flexible attitude and willingness to develop new skills - Ensure that company policies and procedures are read, applied, reviewed regularly and adhered to by all - Follow risk assessments diligently and report all health and safety matters to management - Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development - Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added. **Early Years Practitioner requirements and skills**: - Full and relevant Level 3 childcare qualification - essential - Fluent in written and spoken English - essential - Over 1 year’s experience of working in Early Years - desirable - Knowledge of the Statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - desirable - Ellingham House Day Nursery is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group._ **INDR2** **Benefits** Family First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. On top of this we have discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends and family, access to a discount/perks platform with exceptional learning & development opportunities tailored to you Posted via: eyrecruit