Job Title: Level 3 Nursery Practitioner
Salary: £25,376 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (40 hrs) but willing to consider less hours/ part time for the right candidate
Location: 1-5 Chapel Road, Southampton SO30 3FE
Play Away Day Nursery West End has the opportunity for a Level 3 Qualified staff member to join their team on their journey to delivering the highest quality childcare to its children and families.
About us:
Our Nursery consists of three detached buildings; each carefully adapted to suit the developmental stages of the children within them. The rooms are spacious with large feature windows, flooding the rooms in natural light. The nursery buildings are set within a half-acre site with each room having their own garden space, Vegetable patch, playground equipment, dens and hidey holes, and back onto 40 acres of Hatch Grange Nature Reserve. The children are taken on trips to the local community such as the park and the library which enables the children to develop a sense of belonging to our local community.
At Play Away our goal is to encourage independence across all areas of learning and development, and we instil our philosophy of ‘Nurture, Care, Inspire’ in everything we do
Reviews of the nursery:
Play Away Day Nurseries, part of the Family First Nursery Group, offers the highest quality childcare for children aged 3 months to 5 years. Based in Southampton, we want to ensure that our family first spirit and curriculum positively impacts as many families as possible. Always putting our families first, the safety and wellbeing of all our children, staff and parents is our number one priority.Our nursery is open from 7.30am - 18:00pm and we would require you to be able to work varied shift patterns between those times.
Visit our website Play Away Day Nurseries | Southampton, Totton & West End for further information about our nursery!!
Nursery Practitioner main duties and responsibilities*:
*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.
Requirements and skills:
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.
Play Away Day Nursery West End 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.
BenefitsFamily 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.
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.