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Senior Early Years Practitioner

BRAND NEW DAY NURSERY NOW OPEN AT ADVENTURE FARM, BURTON-ON-TRENT!

Be a part of the excitement!

"We are looking for passionate, inspiring Early Years Professionals who are looking to really make a difference! With a positive, can do attitude, a real team player, and keen to really engage making a difference to our children’s learning and development."

Adventure Farm Day Nursery is focused on outdoor learning, natural materials and resources and following a “child led” learning approach. We offer a unique environment and learning experiences for the children in our care. Due to continued success and expansion, even in these challenging times, we are excited to announce that our brand new 96 place day nursery at Adventure Farm in Burton-on-Trent is now open, and we are looking for an experienced and confident Senior Practitioner to assist the Room Leader with the day to day running of our baby room in this new farm based setting.

Benefits

We offer an attractive salary and benefits package including:

- 50% off childcare (including Holiday Camp)

- Access to 18 training courses including Child Protection and ongoing training and development

- Free hot lunches every day28 days annual holiday, after 2 years of service these increase by 1 day per year, up to 33 days holiday!

- Free uniform

- NEST Pension scheme for all staff

- Monthly staff lottery and employee of the month

- A company awards ceremony every 2 years

Responsibilities and Duties

- To support the day to day responsibility for the efficient running of the setting facility.

- To ensure that developmental records for your key group are kept up to date.

- To support your colleagues and work as part of a team in providing a safe, caring and stimulating environment for all children. (Ages range from 6 weeks to 13 years dependent on setting).

- To assist in the development of an attractive stimulating range of equipment, activities and displays relevant to the age and needs of the children in the setting, which encourage independence, self motivation and eagerness to learn.

- To treat information of matters relating to the work within the setting as confidential.

- To ensure the highest standards of safety, hygiene and welfare whilst maintaining adequate supervision of the conduct of the children attending the setting.

- To ensure company policies and procedures are followed at all times.

- To help support the management team to ensure that the Ofsted standards including EYFS is followed at all times.

- To support the management team in striving to deliver an outstanding setting

- Any other duties that may be required.

Qualifications and Skills

We are looking for confident Practitioners who are ready to take the next step in supporting our Room Leaders to manage and run our Baby Room. You will be motivated to hit the ground running and add value to our fun and hard working team. You will thrive in a busy environment, and always be on hand with new ideas and activities.

You will be confident in all areas of the EYFS and implement accordingly, and have experience in a similar role.

You must have a relevant early years qualification, ideally level 3 or above, though we will consider qualified level 2 applications.

Please note the nursery is open from 7:30am-6:30pm, Monday to Friday and so shift patterns will be rotating within these opening hours. Please make sure you can commit to early and late shifts before applying.

"Adventure Farm Day Nursery – Doing what’s best for children and our staff"

Adventure Farm Day Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any employment is engaged. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In the event of candidates not being part of the DBS update service, Kids Play Childcare Group will pay for a new disclosure to be carried out, however employees will be responsible for payment to subscribe to the update service. Individuals must register within 14 days of the date of the disclosure, otherwise they must pay for a new disclosure to be done again.

Please email our Recruitment Officer, Lucy Horwood. (lucyhorwood@kidsplaychildcare.co.uk) with your CV to register your interest in this job role.