Room Lead Under 3
Role Brief
- To ensure a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in their care
- To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare and safety is promoted
- To have specific training/knowledge of working with babies and children under two years old in order to support their individual needs
- To give support to other team members within their immediate room and the wider 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 Teacher
Administration
- To keep records of your key children’s development and learning journeys
- Ensure all record keeping is accurate and up-to-date within your designated area, including learning journeys of all children in your room, sleep charts, accident forms, daily record sheets and any other forms/records required for the child’s welfare, learning and development
Communication
- Share development and learning journeys this with parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life and institute reviews for parents
- Attend nursery management meetings and feed appropriate information back to your teams
- Liaise with and support parents and other family members
- Liaise with the local authority and other professionals associated with the nursery
- To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs
Leadership
- To support the team members to have the specific knowledge and skills required to work effectively with children of this age
- Support all team members with the early identification and intervention for children with possible special needs and give physical, emotional, intellectual guidance as appropriate
- Feed into appraisals, target settings and nursery operations as deemed appropriate by the manager
- Work alongside the Manager and staff team to ensure that the nursery philosophy is fulfilled
- Support all staff to engage in good team working
- Support new team members through inductions in partnership with the manager
- ensure confidentiality of all information received by all team members in your area.
- Support all team members in this area to ensure they have the skills and knowledge to complete the two year old progress checks effectively (if applicable)
- Ensure all children in the two year old room receive progress checks as laid out in the Early Years Foundation Stage and that these are shared with parents in an appropriate and timely manner (if applicable)
Safeguarding
- To follow the nursery safeguarding procedure to ensure all children are kept safe, well and secure and ensure all team members are able to do the same
- Ensure someone known and agreed by the nursery and parent collects each child
Training
- Support team members to seek out any training or support they may require to fulfil their roles and responsibilities
- Participate in training programmes with a wide variety of students (i.e. placements and volunteers), by giving guidance and support
- To attend all training relevant to the role and deemed appropriate by the manager/training provider
Practice and Provision
- Formulate and operate a programme of activities that meet the individual needs and interests of children in your area in conjunction with other team members and the Manager
- To use the specific training/knowledge of working with babies and children under two years old to support all children’s individual needs (as applicable)
- Undertake certain domestic jobs within the nursery, e.g. preparation of snack meals, cleansing of equipment and such other duties and responsibilities of an equivalent nature as may be determined from time to time by the Manager
- Read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role as deemed appropriate by the Manager. Support team members to do the same and ensure all policies and procedures are followed
- To support and facilitate the preparation and completion of activities to suit each individual child's stage of development and interests
- To support all staff to develop their role within the team especially with regard as a key person
- To ensure that meal times are a time of pleasant social sharing
- Washing and changing children as required
- Ensuring a poorly child is kept calm and warm and parents are notified immediately in order for the child to be collected
- 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
- Ensure room checks and outdoor checks are conducted in line with nursery procedures
- To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times and be responsible for the health and safety standards appropriate for the needs of young children
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: £13.00 - £14.00 per hour
Expected hours: 30 – 40 per week