Nursery Room Leader

Full time Room Leader/Team Leader

Job Description

Room Leader

40 hours per week

Monday - Friday, all year round

Salary from £25,355.20 per annum dependant on experiance

Are you an experienced early years professional ready to take the next step in your career? Join our team as a Nursery Room Leader where you’ll lead a team dedicated to creating a nurturing and inspiring environment for young children.

As a Room Leader, you will take on a key role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the room while providing outstanding care and education in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

About us:

Totton Day Nursery is a purpose-built setting with spacious, bright rooms, filled with natural light and plenty of resources to inspire young minds. Our beautiful playrooms and creatively designed outdoor spaces provide a nurturing environment where children can explore, imagine, and grow.

At Play Away, we believe every stage of childhood is to be celebrated. We carefully plan each child’s transition as they move through different groups, ensuring they feel secure and supported in their development. Our outdoor spaces encourage children to become adventurous explorers, athletes, or gardeners, while also offering quiet areas for relaxation and reflection. With all-weather garden protection, every day is an outdoor day!

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 year’s 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

If you are passionate about leading a team and making a difference in the early years sector, we’d love to hear from you!

 

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 Nursery Totton 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.

 

Nursery Name

Play Away Day Nurseries - Totton