Nursery Room Leader - Holly Corner Kindergarten
3 days ago
Colchester
Nursery: Holly Corner Day Nursery, 104 Shrub End Road,\nColchester Salary: £28,080 per annum Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, All year round Are you an experienced Nursery Practitioner ready for your\nnext challenge? Or perhaps you're already a Room Leader looking for a fresh\nopportunity? If so, we’d love to meet you! Holly Corner is a charming nursery situated on Shrub End\nRoad in the historic town of Colchester, Essex with easy access to Colchester’s\namenities, making it a convenient and desirable location for residents and\nvisitors alike. There are great commuter links to Colchester Town Centre,\nColchester Train Station and the A12 Motorway. Why Join Us? At Family First, we value our team members and offer a\ncomprehensive benefits package, including: • Generous\n Annual Leave: 24 days to start, plus bank holidays and your birthday\n off – paid!, • Childcare\n Discount: 75% off nursery fees for your little ones, • Health\n & Wellbeing Support: Confidential employee assistance helpline, • Career\n Growth: Personalised learning and development opportunities, • Refer\n a Friend: Earn up to £750 with our referral scheme* Room Leader duties and responsibilities: • Provide\n stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to\n children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development, • Enhance\n the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical,\n intellectual, social and emotional development, • Assist\n staff in updating the EyLog system and their child learning journals with\n the highest quality, • Promote\n respect and credibility for this position by leading as a role model with\n impartiality and consistency, • Assist\n with embedding an effective key person approach to enable children to form\n secure attachments and identify training or development needs for staff, • Maintain\n accurate records and accounts relating to children and staff on EyMan\n system and on file, • Ensure\n the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all\n times, • Understand\n and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS\n are met Room Leader requirement and skills: • Full\n and relevant Level 3 in Childcare qualification - Essential, • Over\n 1 year’s experience working in Early Years - Essential, • Over\n 6 months’ experience working in a senior position - Desirable, • Sound\n knowledge of Ofsted expectations to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating -\n Desirable, • Knowledge\n of the statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements -\n Essential, • Fluent\n in written and spoken English - Essential We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare\nof children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service\nCertificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to\nenhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty. Holly Corner Kindergarten is part of the Family First\nGroup where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights\nand responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a\nchild. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and\nanti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their\nindividual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion\nor belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender\nreassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political\nbelief has no place within the Family First Group.