Nursery Room Leader

Poppies Maidenhead Day Nursery & Pre-School

11A Shifford Cres, Maidenhead, SL6 7UA

Room Leader

40 hours per week

Salary £27,500 per annum depending on qualifications and experience

Full and Relevant Level 3 Childcare Qualification

* Please note this nursery is open all year round and is not a term time only role.

Poppies Maidenhead Day Nursery & Pre-School who are part of the Family First Group are seeking a Nursery Room Leader to join and lead the team in the Toddlers Room. We are a purpose-built nursery which benefits from light and spacious nursery rooms with high quality resources, including a lending library, and access to safe and secure ground-level and rooftop gardens.

We are open from 7.30am - 18:00pm and we would require you to be able to work varied shift patterns between those times. Our nursery is located on Shifford Crescent based just outside of Maidenhead town centre. Furze Platt Station is a 12 minute walk from the nursery and there is on street parking available on the road outside the nursery.

As Room Leader, you will:

• Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments, and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
• Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development.
• Assist staff in updating the EyLog system and their child learning journals with the highest quality.
• Promote respect and credibility for this position by leading as a role model with impartiality and consistency.
• Assist with embedding an effective key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and identify training or development needs for staff.
• Maintain accurate records and accounts relating to children and staff on EyMan system and on file.
• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times.
• Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met.

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

As Room Leader, you will need:

• Full and relevant Level 3 in Childcare qualification – Essential.
• Over 1 years’ experience working in Early Years – Essential.
• Over 6 months’ experience working in a senior position – Desirable.
• Sound knowledge of Ofsted expectations to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating – Desirable.
• Knowledge of the statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements – Essential.
• Fluent in written and spoken English – Essential.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.

Poppies Maidenhead Day Nursery & Pre School 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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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.