Nursery Assistant

Nursery Assistant

Salary £24,500 Per Annum 

40 hours per week

Full Time, Permanent, All year round

The Kentish Town Day Nursery are seeking a passionate Nursery Assistant to join their team. Our current staff team provide experiences that enhance our curriculum and our parents love the truly inspirational quality of the social and physical environment. Come and join us on our exciting journey of transitioning our term time only preschool into a full time nursery.

The Kentish Town Day Nursery & Preschool, offers a warm and friendly welcome where children aged 3 months to 5 years can have lots of fun and enjoy learning in a safe environment.

Located on the ground floor of a former school in Ryland Road, the nursery provides inspirational learning experiences, both indoors and out. Unlike many London nurseries, we have a lovely garden where children can safely play and explore in a secure environment.

We love to involve our parents and have a cooking club so we can share delicious recipes, as well as a lending library so families can take books home for their children to enjoy.

Nursery Assistant main responsibilities include:

• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times
• Understand the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS and staff:child ratios
• Provide engaging and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development
• Facilitate a strong key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and cover all children daily when colleagues are absent
• Observe and support children’s development, update the EyLog system and children’s learning journals with accuracy and relevance, and seek guidance from colleagues or Room Leader if in doubt
• Provide the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development

Why Join Us?

At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays 
• Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team member’s
• Wellbeing: Confidential employee assistance helpline available 
• Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth

* All perks are pro-rota for part time staff and subject to successful completion of probationary period. These perks may be subject to further conditions and can be withdrawn or reviewed at the discretion of the company

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.

 The Knetish Town  Day Nursery & Pre-School 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.