Job summary
If you are looking for a job where no two days are the same and you can go home feeling rewarded, then this is the right post for you! Your day will involve caring for the children, teaching, playing and having fun whilst keeping them safe.
First Steps Day Nursery is located on site , for staff use, at Wexham Park Hospital and provides high quality care and education for children aged between 3 months and 5 years.
You will be joining an established friendly and talented team. We are open Monday to Friday between 06:45am and 5.30 pm for 51 weeks of the year and you would work an 8 hour shift each day starting at various times through the week between 6.30am and 5.30 pm.
Main duties of the job
The Early Years Practitioner will:
- Be responsible to the Nursery Manager for the delivery of full day care to children under 5 years.
- Be responsible for monitoring the Health and safety requirements in the Nursery, ensuring that processes are documented and assessed, risk assessments are completed and that the Nursery is compliant
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Job description
Job responsibilities
Education and Development
- Using knowledge and understanding of child development theories, progressive learning and best working practices, contribute to and deliver individualised care and learning to children under five years within statutory and guiding principles described in the EarlyYears Foundation Stage (EYFS).
- Collaborate with room lead and colleagues to ensure the environment reflects appropriate challenge and risk; age and stage appropriate resources; learning opportunities are differentiated to take account of age, stage and individual ability.
- To be responsible for key childrens observations, planning, assessments, to create childrens learning journey.
- To be responsible for producing formative and summative assessments of key childrens progress.
- Promote an ethos within the setting that values and celebrates diversity that enables all children and adults to make a positive contribution to nursery life.
- Recognise childrens voice through including them appropriately in assessing and choosing their own lines of learning and interactions and are sensitive and have due regard to childrens right to be heard with respect.
- Contribute to practices including the key person system, that support partnership working between parents, practitioners and others in order to lay a secure foundation for childrens future learning and development.
- Liaise with Lead Practitioner and Inclusion Co-ordinator when early signs of individual needs that could lead to later difficulties have been identified.
- To ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND).
- Contribute to practices supporting individual children and families transitions into the nursery between rooms and to school or other setting.
- Contribute to the development of provision within the nursery by collaborating in planning, conducting, evaluating and reporting on action research projects and where identified as personal CPD opportunities.
- Contribute to the implementation of new strategies both local and national, for example Every Child a Talker (ECAT) that will enhance childrens development and learning.
- To work closely with Room Leads/Management to contribute to and influence the nurserys self-evaluation and development plan.
- Work collaboratively and in co-operation with all colleagues, ensuring all practices benefit children.
- Through discussion with Room Lead, formulate and review own personal development plans (PDP) appropriate to professional needs.
- Participate in planned staff redeployment to develop personal practical experience, knowledge and understanding of factors affecting child development and learning across the birth to five age range,
- Participate in Continuous Provision Development (CPD) to develop personal knowledge and understanding on a range of theories and practices related to child development and learning. Be aware of up to date early years research, legislation, strategies and developments.
- Use Personal Development Plans (PDP) and other evidence of professional and personal practice in appraisal meetings with designated Appraisal Manager
- Contribute to the safe opening and closing of the nursery
Safeguarding and Welfare Responsibilities
- To comply with specific legal requirements set out in the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, Section 3 - The Welfare Requirements, keeping children healthy, safe and secure where their individual needs are met.
- To ensure that the welfare and safety of children is paramount within the setting and any child protection concerns are always appropriately acted upon immediately, following Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) and Trust guidelines in the absence of the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager.
- In the absence of the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager, be responsible as the designated safe guarding lead for implementing the nursery safeguarding policy and procedure.
- To ensure that ratios are maintained and staffing deployment is effective.
Health and Safety
- To be responsible for Health and Safety Risk Assessments and to take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of other persons who may be affected by his/her acts of omissions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Education and Development
- Using knowledge and understanding of child development theories, progressive learning and best working practices, contribute to and deliver individualised care and learning to children under five years within statutory and guiding principles described in the EarlyYears Foundation Stage (EYFS).
- Collaborate with room lead and colleagues to ensure the environment reflects appropriate challenge and risk; age and stage appropriate resources; learning opportunities are differentiated to take account of age, stage and individual ability.
- To be responsible for key childrens observations, planning, assessments, to create childrens learning journey.
- To be responsible for producing formative and summative assessments of key childrens progress.
- Promote an ethos within the setting that values and celebrates diversity that enables all children and adults to make a positive contribution to nursery life.
- Recognise childrens voice through including them appropriately in assessing and choosing their own lines of learning and interactions and are sensitive and have due regard to childrens right to be heard with respect.
- Contribute to practices including the key person system, that support partnership working between parents, practitioners and others in order to lay a secure foundation for childrens future learning and development.
- Liaise with Lead Practitioner and Inclusion Co-ordinator when early signs of individual needs that could lead to later difficulties have been identified.
- To ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND).
- Contribute to practices supporting individual children and families transitions into the nursery between rooms and to school or other setting.
- Contribute to the development of provision within the nursery by collaborating in planning, conducting, evaluating and reporting on action research projects and where identified as personal CPD opportunities.
- Contribute to the implementation of new strategies both local and national, for example Every Child a Talker (ECAT) that will enhance childrens development and learning.
- To work closely with Room Leads/Management to contribute to and influence the nurserys self-evaluation and development plan.
- Work collaboratively and in co-operation with all colleagues, ensuring all practices benefit children.
- Through discussion with Room Lead, formulate and review own personal development plans (PDP) appropriate to professional needs.
- Participate in planned staff redeployment to develop personal practical experience, knowledge and understanding of factors affecting child development and learning across the birth to five age range,
- Participate in Continuous Provision Development (CPD) to develop personal knowledge and understanding on a range of theories and practices related to child development and learning. Be aware of up to date early years research, legislation, strategies and developments.
- Use Personal Development Plans (PDP) and other evidence of professional and personal practice in appraisal meetings with designated Appraisal Manager
- Contribute to the safe opening and closing of the nursery
Safeguarding and Welfare Responsibilities
- To comply with specific legal requirements set out in the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, Section 3 - The Welfare Requirements, keeping children healthy, safe and secure where their individual needs are met.
- To ensure that the welfare and safety of children is paramount within the setting and any child protection concerns are always appropriately acted upon immediately, following Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) and Trust guidelines in the absence of the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager.
- In the absence of the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager, be responsible as the designated safe guarding lead for implementing the nursery safeguarding policy and procedure.
- To ensure that ratios are maintained and staffing deployment is effective.
Health and Safety
- To be responsible for Health and Safety Risk Assessments and to take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of other persons who may be affected by his/her acts of omissions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum of GCSE Maths and English at Grade C/4 or Equivalent
Desirable
- Committed to undertake continued professional development (CPD) relevant to personal and professional needs.
- Paediatric First Aid certificate
- Gained Early Years Level 3 Ofqual Approved Qualification
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of working in a NHS Day Nursery or other full day care setting
- Some experience across full birth to five age range
- Experience in implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage for children from birth to five.
- EYFS Observation, Assessment and Planning.
Skills & Knowlege
Essential
- Ability to work using judgement and reflective practice to observe, assess and plan progressive care and learning experiences for children aged under 5 years
- Skill and ability to differentiate learning experiences across the birth - five years age range
- Good team working skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge of tracking systems used to monitor children's educational progression
- Basic IT skills
Special Requirement
Essential
- Approachable, confident, consistent and professional manner in communicating with a range of people and in a range of situations including those involving pressure or stress
- Committed to working flexible hours to meet the operational needs of the role
- Committed to attending staff meetings/training after nursery hours.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum of GCSE Maths and English at Grade C/4 or Equivalent
Desirable
- Committed to undertake continued professional development (CPD) relevant to personal and professional needs.
- Paediatric First Aid certificate
- Gained Early Years Level 3 Ofqual Approved Qualification
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of working in a NHS Day Nursery or other full day care setting
- Some experience across full birth to five age range
- Experience in implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage for children from birth to five.
- EYFS Observation, Assessment and Planning.
Skills & Knowlege
Essential
- Ability to work using judgement and reflective practice to observe, assess and plan progressive care and learning experiences for children aged under 5 years
- Skill and ability to differentiate learning experiences across the birth - five years age range
- Good team working skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge of tracking systems used to monitor children's educational progression
- Basic IT skills
Special Requirement
Essential
- Approachable, confident, consistent and professional manner in communicating with a range of people and in a range of situations including those involving pressure or stress
- Committed to working flexible hours to meet the operational needs of the role
- Committed to attending staff meetings/training after nursery hours.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
