Nursery Practitioner

**Drayton House Nursery**

**Nursery Practitioner Maternity cover**

**40 hours per week**

**Flexible Shift Pattern**

**Full and Relevant Level 3 Childcare Qualification is essential**

Drayton House Nursery are looking for a Nursery Practitioner to join their growing team. Within this role you will be responsible for a designated group of children as a key person and will guide the children through the daily routine, liaise with parents and provide an enabling environment.

Our Drayton House Nursery is open from 8.00am-18.00pm and we would require the availability of working varied shift patterns between those times. We have fantastic outdoor play opportunities, a dedicated baby garden, an indoor soft play room and we are an Ofsted Good Provider.

Flexible shift pattern : 40 hours across 4 days or spread across 5 days working a mixture of 3 shifts 8am-6pm and 2 shifts 8am-3pm through out the working week.

**Nursery 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.

**Nursery 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

**Benefits include**:

- Annual leave starts at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and public bank holidays
- Annual pay review to ensure competitive salary
- Team fun days and award events to thank and celebrate our wonderful teams
- 50% off nursery fees for our team member’s children and up to 25% for grandchildren/friends/families
- Employee assistance helpline offering confidential counselling and advisory service from qualified and trained experts 24/7, including face to face counselling sessions where needed
- Drayton House 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._

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**Salary**: From £25,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

School type:

- Day nursery

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Guildford, GU1 3NP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Nursery: 1 year (required)
- Childcare: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Level 3 Childcare Qualification (required)

Work Location: In person