Kids Play Bury St Edmunds Day Nursery
Room Leader (Pre School)
Level 3 Childcare Qualification Essential, QTS or EYTS Desirable
40 hours | Permanent | Salary: £25,958.40 - £27,040 per annum depending on qualifications
Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated childcare professional? Kids Play Day Nursery is looking for a motivated Room Leader to inspire and guide our preschool team. A Level 3 childcare qualification is essential, but we’d love to meet candidates with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS).
If you're ready to make a difference in young lives and bring your expertise to a supportive, fun, and enriching environment, apply today!
About Kids Play Bury St Edmunds Day Nursery
We are very proud to be rated GOOD by Ofsted
With the capacity for 68 children across 3 inviting rooms
The building is all on one level and has a lovely staff room.
We have a bus stop close by and ASDA just up the road. There is also a train station approximately 20 minutes walk from the nursery for anyone using public transport.
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.
Room Leader duties and responsibilities*:
* Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development
* Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development
* Assist staff in updating the EyLog system and their child learning journals with the highest quality
* Promote respect and credibility for this position by leading as a role model with impartiality and consistency
* Assist with embedding an effective key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and identify training or development needs for staff
* Maintain accurate records and accounts relating to children and staff on EyMan system and on file
* Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times
* Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met
*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.
Room Leader requirement and skills:
* Full and relevant Level 3 in Childcare qualification - Essential
* Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS) - Desirable
* Over 1 year’s experience working in Early Years - Essential
* Over 6 months’ experience working in a senior position - Desirable
* Sound knowledge of Ofsted expectations to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating - Desirable
* Knowledge of the statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - Essential
* Fluent in written and spoken English - Essential
We’re a family by name, and we’re a family by nature too. We are defined in many different ways, by many different people. Different cultures. Different ideas. Different ages, genders and skillsets. Whilst every individual will have their own definition of family, these definitions all come together to show Family First for who we are.
We are: Defined by Family
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.
Kids Play Day Nursery Bury St Edmunds 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.
Vacancy Reference: IP33 3SN
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