Job Description
Nursery Educator
Role Brief
- To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in the nursery
- To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare and safety is promoted
- To give support to other team members throughout the nursery
- To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, learn and develop.
Line Manager – Nursery Manager and Room Lead
Administration
- To keep records of your key children’s development and learning journeys
- Recording accidents in the accident book. Ensure the Duty Manager has initialled the report before parents receives it
Communication
- Liaise with and support parents and other family members
- To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communications with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs
- key children’s development and learning journeys to be shared this with parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life
Leadership
- Support all staff and engage in a good staff team
- To respect the confidentiality of all information received.
Safeguarding
- To follow the nursery safeguarding procedure to ensure all children are kept safe, well and secure
- Ensure someone known and agreed by the nursery and parent collects the child
Training
- To develop your role within the team especially with regard as a key person
- To attend all training relevant to the role and deemed appropriate by the manager/training provider
Practice and Provision
- Operate a programme of activities that meet the individual needs and interests of children in your area in conjunction with other team members
- To be flexible within working practices of the nursery. Be prepared to help where needed, including to undertake certain domestic jobs within the nursery, e.g. preparation of snack meals, cleansing of equipment etc.
- Work alongside the Manager and staff team to ensure that the nursery’s ethos is fulfilled
- Read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role as deemed appropriate by the Manager
- Look upon the nursery, as a “whole” where can your help be most utilised? Be constantly aware of the individual needs of all children
- The preparation and completion of activities to suit each individual child's stage of development and interests
- To ensure that meal times are a time of pleasant social sharing
- Washing and changing children as required
- To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communications with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs
- To ensure the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children regardless of any disabilities, family backgrounds or medical history
Health & Safety
- To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times
To be involved in out of working hours activities, e.g. training, monthly staff meetings, parents evening, fundraising events etc. To be aware of the high profile of the nursery and ensure all staff uphold its standards at all times, both within work hours and outside.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Salary: £12.30-£13.30 per hour
Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week
Benefits
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Childcare Discount
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
Nursery Name
What we believe
Naturally Learning has a strong ethos, underpinned by brain development theory, an understanding of how children learn, knowledge of child development theories and years of experience working with young children and their families.
Our holistic approach to childcare and education focuses on the child as a whole, nurturing their body, mind and soul.
Where we play
Our indoor environments provide spaces of calm where children can access a wide range of stimulating learning experiences, and a variety of interesting resources to investigate.
At Naturally Learning there are quiet places to rest and reflect, communication-friendly spaces to talk with friends, areas to spark creativity and imagination, things to question and count, sensory experiences to explore and places to read and write.
At Naturally Learning, children have the opportunity to spend much of their time outside and experience multiple learning opportunities in our outdoor classrooms and gardens.
We are proud to offer award winning forest and beach school sessions as outdoor learning is integral to our ethos. Find us in the woods or on the coast as we build independent, capable and resilient learners through access to wild spaces and risky play.
How we learn
Our holistic approach ensures children form nurturing relationships on which to build future learning. As children develop, our knowledgeable educators provide a safe base for them to explore the challenge of independence.
Children learn best when they are fully immersed in their education which is reflected in our child led approach. At Naturally Learning there is time to play, space to explore and freedom to choose.
Through project-based planning and a seasonal curriculum, we naturally scaffold children’s learning through their own interests and inquiry.