Early Years Practitioner
1 day ago
Maidenhead
Early Years Practitioner Position Summary The Early Years Practitioner provides an outstanding learning environment and develops our youngest pupils to become Motivated, Engaged and Thinkers. As a skilled Practitioner, you will: • Be a Key-Carer for a small group of children whom you will be responsible for writing and evaluating observations, planning for the next steps, taking and uploading photos/videos to the Early Years Learning Journals, writing reports, meeting with parents, groups and key-group planning, liaising with outside professionals where required, • Support, extend and record children's learning and development, showing an understanding of children's development to plan the next steps and support their individual needs, • Deliver the highest quality care and education to ensure that all children reach their full potential, • Develop strong professional relationships with children, parents, carers and staff, • Work with small groups of children or individuals to teach through the child's play, covering all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum inside and outside, • Promote and safeguard the welfare of the pupils, maintaining a constant awareness of all issues relating to child protection, • Set a positive example to all children by showing a personal and professional attitude of cooperation, consideration and caring relationships with all members of the school, • Be prepared to work 1:1 with children requiring intervention, • Work with small groups of children for adult-led or directed work, • Occasionally take the whole group as directed by the Classroom Leader and agreed by the Head of Year and/or Head of Early Years, e.g., taking the register, reading a story, delivering a focused activity, • Give feedback to support assessments, • Liaise with parents as required at the start and end of the day when they arrive with and pick up their children, • Understand and support the emotional and social needs of the children, • Set up the classroom with the Classroom Leader for any activities that will be taking place during the day, • Be able to manage positive behaviour within age-appropriate expectations, • Attend to any child who becomes ill or injured during the day and seek appropriate assistance, • Support children with toileting and personal care when needed, including children who are not yet toilet-trained, • Visit the library with children and support the development of pre-reading skills, • Take children to their 'specialist teacher' lessons, e.g., dance, music etc. and stay with them during the lesson to support the teacher, • Take children to extra-curricular activities or extended day, • Share outside supervision and engaging in their play, including setting out and putting away equipment, • Support Teachers and Classroom Leaders with year-group productions, • Support the children through daily activities such as lunch and snack, ensuring their safety as they eat Essential • Level 2 essential, level 3 desirable or above in Child Development or equivalent qualification, • A firm understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and child development with a solid knowledge and understanding of safeguarding children, • Knowledge of Health and Safety issues, • Previous experience with children aged 2 to 5 years, • Good communication skills (spoken and written) with both adults and children, with the desire to work and play with the children, demonstrating positive behaviour management skills, • Act with the highest integrity and professionalism, showing discretion and confidentiality at all times, • A caring and flexible approach to working, • Previous experience using online learning journals, • Current paediatric first aid certificate, • Knowledge and understanding of EAL and SEN, • Knowledge of childhood games and activities, • Have good ICT and Interactive White Board knowledge and skills, • A broad understanding of different pedagogies and when to use them in practice
