Lunch Cover - Unqualified New at Ellingham House Day Nursery
Ringwood, Hampshire
Part Time, Permanent
5 Aug 2024
Nursery Assistant/Early Years Assistant
Job Description:
Job Title: Nursery Lunch Cover
Contract type: Part time, permanent - 15 hours per week, 11am-2pm, Monday - Friday, All year round
Childcare experience is essential
Ellingham House Nursery based in Ringwood is seeking a Nursery Lunch Cover to join and support their team of nurturing practitioners. In this role, you will support the practitioners with the children's daily routines across the lunch period. We pride ourselves on putting the children at the heart of our team and living in the moment, following the interests of the children.
About us:
Ellingham is set idyllically in a Georgian country house surrounded by 2.5 acres of lawns and woodland. In this safe space, our children have the opportunity to explore, stretch, and run as well as practice their climbing and balancing skills in the ever-popular ‘bear cave’. The paddock is home to our friendly Valais Black Nose sheep - Baarbara and Soozie. The children help the team care for them and learn how to stay safe around animals. The nursery has a real ‘home from home’ feel, with welcoming rooms specifically suited to babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers. The nursery is open 8:00am-6:00pm.
As Nursery Lunch Cover, you will:
* Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
* Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met.
* Ensure the highest levels of cleanliness and hygiene in the nursery, and promote these daily in every routine.
* Undertake any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the nursery, and the safety and wellbeing of children, staff, and families.
* Maintain strictly professional relationships and report any complaints or concerns to management in accordance with company policy and procedures.
As Nursery Lunch Cover, you will need:
* Full and Relevant Level 2 / Level 3 Childcare Qualification - desirable.
* Fluent in written and spoken English - essential.
* Over 1 year’s experience of working in Early Years - desirable.
* Knowledge of the Statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - desirable.
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.
Ellingham House Day Nursery 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.
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