Nursery Practitioner

Zero2Five are proud to be recruiting a Qualified Nursery Practitioner on behalf of a quality private Nursery based near Portsmouth.

The successful applicant will:

• Provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting.
• Give support to their staff within the setting.
• work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.
• Build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met. 

Key Responsibilities

• To effectively deliver the EYFS ensuring that the individual needs and interest of children in the setting are met (in conjunction with other team members)
• To keep records of your key children’s development and learning journeys and share with parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life.
• To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs.
• To ensure the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children having an awareness of any disabilities, family cultures and medical histories.
• To advise manager/deputy of any concerns, e.g. over children, parents, the safety of the environment, preserving confidentiality as necessary.
• To work alongside the manager and staff team to ensure that the setting’s philosophy is fulfilled.
• To develop your role within the team, especially with regard to being a key person.
• To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.
• To undertake and lead on additional responsibilities such as SENCO, training co-ordinator, safeguarding Officer.

Qualifications and experienced required for this role:

• Level 3 Early Years Qualification or equivalent
• Experience working with young children in a nursery or early years (min. 1 year preferred)
• Experience working within a team

Benefits

• Very Competitive Salary
• Paid time off over Christmas
• Enhanced holiday entitlement that increases with service
• Childcare provision with substantial discounts
• Employer paid training programs and career progression opportunities 

If this sounds like the type of vacancy you feel you have been looking for, then apply today! Alternatively email your most up-to-date CV to ollie@zero2five.co.uk or call one of Nursery Team on 02477 688 888