Nursery Assistant - Unqualified

Job title: Nursery Assistant 

Salary: £8.60 - £11.44 per hour

Job Types: Full-time Monday - Friday

Drayton House Nursery School are looking for a new member of staff to join their friendly team. We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, competent and confident person with relevant experience to carry out general key worker duties including planning exciting activities that fully engage the children and taking care of the physical and emotional needs of all the children in your care whilst promoting their next steps of development. 

Our Drayton House Nursery is open from 8.00am-18.00pm and we would require the availability of working varied shift patterns between those times.

We value all our staff individually, therefore to ensure everyone is given a fantastic future we provide numerous opportunities for professional development and internal promotion.

Nursery Assistant duties and responsibilities*:

• Ensure that each child’s individual needs are met and a high standard of professional care and education is delivered in a caring, safe and secure environment in which all children can play, learn and develop
• Observe, assess and plan an interesting, stimulating and challenging range of early years activities which supports each child’s individual learning and development needs and abilities
• Engage as a professional member of the team, exhibiting a flexible attitude and willingness to develop new skills
• Ensure that company policies and procedures are read, applied, reviewed regularly and adhered to by all
• Follow risk assessments diligently and report all health and safety matters to management
• Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development

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

Nursery assistant requirements and skills:

• Full and relevant Level 3 childcare qualification - Desirable
• 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

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.

Drayton House 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.

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