Nursery Practitioner - Level 2

Job Title: Nursery Nurse

Salary: £24,960.00 per annum

Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (40 hrs) Monday to Friday 

Location: 13 Nine Mile Ride Finchampstead, Wokingham RG40 4QD

Are you passionate about working with young children and looking for a part-time role that offers flexibility and a rewarding experience? Join our friendly team as a Part-Time Level 2 Nursery Practitioner, where you’ll help create a warm, nurturing environment for children aged 0-5.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced practitioner who can provide outstanding care and education in a supportive and fun setting.

About us:

We are a small, homely setting who have a passion for environments and nature, situated in a quiet leafy area of Finchampstead. We have been awarded our Eco schools Green Flag award and all of our older rooms have free flow access to the gardens throughout the day. We have Mini Nature Artist classes every other week within preschool which combines our love for nature with art and helps to develop our Oak Tree Oasis which is a little garden at the front of the nursery where we plan to grow our own plants to make natural inks to create artwork with.

The nursery is a beautiful setting with 4 children’s rooms spread across 2 floors of the building. our high-quality friendly team are dedicated to our individual curriculum focusing on being eco-conscious and supporting the local community; being curious, exploring individuals; and learning in awe and wonder being celebrated by the staff. Our nursery is open from 7.30am - 18:30pm and we would require you to be able to work varied shift patterns between those times.

Staffs strenghts and achievements are celebrated in various ways and are given opportunities to develop skills or take on additional roles to support the staffs development and progression. We hold regular staff welfare events such as kindenes week where they celebrate each other through various acts of kindness.

Oaktree Day Nursery, part of the Family First Nursery Group, offers the highest quality childcare for children aged 3 months to 5 years. Based in Finchampsted, 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.

Visit our nursery website for further infomation: Oak Tree Day Nursery and Preschool | Orchard House Nurseries                                                                                                                                                     

 Nursery Nurse duties and responsibilities*:

• Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met
• Ensure that company policies and procedures are read, applied, reviewed regularly and adhered to by all
• Observe, support and extend children’s development, update the EyLog system and children’s learning journals with the highest quality and relevance
• Ensure children are supervised and attended to at all times, maintaining appropriate staff:child ratios
• Ensure positive partnerships with parents/carers with thorough handover on daily collection and encourage their involvement in the nursery
• Undertake any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the nursery, and the safety and wellbeing of children, staff and families.
• 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.

*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:

• Full and relevant Level 2 childcare qualification - essential
• 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

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.

Oak Tree Day Nursery and 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.