Nursery Bank Staff
Play Away West End Nursery
Up to £12.20 per hour
Flexible Hours
Whether you are qualified, unqualified or returning to your Early Years career after a break, we want to hear from you!
Play Away West End Nursery is open from 7:30am - 18:00pm. The nursery is situated on a half-acre site, with each room featuring its own garden space, vegetable patch, playground equipment, and dens. The property borders the 40-acre Hatch Grange Nature Reserve.
Responsibilities:
Assist room leader and other staff members in providing the highest standard of compliance, care and education for children.
Effectively carry out daily operations of the nursery, developing positive partnerships with staff and parents.
Adhere to all Safeguarding, Health & Safety and environmental health requirements
Assist with learning opportunities and provide exceptional care that helps our children to develop.
Adhere to all Nursery policies and procedures.
Requirements:
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.
Sound knowledge of Ofsted expectations to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating – Desirable.
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 Prevent Duty.
Play Away West End 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.
Established in 2019, we are UK’s fastest growing childcare provider and it’s our ambition to grow further by acquiring well run local nurseries that provide outstanding quality childcare and we strive to provide an enjoyable working environment for all our team. Whether you are working in one of our nurseries, or as part of our support team, you’ll feel part of the family. It’s always been like this, it’s in our DNA.
If you love childcare as much as we do, you’ll fit right in. We know that choosing your next career move is a big step, but fear not – our people are our most important asset and we make a big deal when it comes to taking care of you!
From humble beginnings with a very small team, Family First began its journey with just 4 nurseries within London and has grown to 100 nurseries across the UK. Although we have grown, we have stayed true to our values, ensuring the highest possible standard of childcare, with a passion for developing our teams.
Our people are passionate about creating a special environment for all of the children within our care to flourish. Whilst there’s lots of hard work involved, to ensure that all our children are provided with the best possible standard of care, it’s the fact that we all love working with children, believe in what we do and have a lot of fun doing it that really helps us pull together, to create the highest quality of childcare that we’ve become famous for.
It’s the reason that parents choose to trust us with their children; because when you enjoy caring for children and seeing them develop into wonderful young people as much as we do, the feeling to have enriched someone’s early years journey is truly overwhelming.