Family First Nurseries
Nursery Assistant
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Looking for a Nursery Assistant role where you’ll feel valued, supported, and part of a fantastic team? Join us at The Marlow Riley Park Day Nursery & Pre School - Riley Park recently awarded Strong Standards by Ofsted in 2026.
Location: 70 Crown Road, Marlow,, SL7 2QG
Position: Full-time – 40 hours per week (5 days)
Salary: £26,436.80 per annum
About the Role: We are looking for a Nursery Assistant to join our team! The nursery is a vibrant setting located in the heart of Marlow on Crown Road, situated in a beautifully converted Salvation Army church. It is strategically positioned just a stone’s throw from numerous local attractions, including lush parks, the community library, and the scenic riverbank. The nursery also benefits from good local bus links and is conveniently located just around the corner from Sainsbury’s.
Why Join Us? (Family First Nurseries) We truly value our team and offer an excellent benefits package, including:
- Referral Programme: Refer a friend and earn up-to £750
- Employee Childcare Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team members’s
- Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays - Christmas Closure
- Health and Wellbeing: Confidential employee assistance helpline available
- Career Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
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Responsibilities: As Nursery Assistant, you will:
- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor always
- Understand the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS and staff:child ratios
- Provide engaging and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
- Facilitate a strong key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and cover all children daily when colleagues are absent.
- Observe and support children’s development, update the EyLog system and children’s learning journals with accuracy and relevance, and seek guidance from colleagues or Room Leader if in doubt
- Provide the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development
*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.
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Commitment to Safeguarding: 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.
Equality and Diversity: The Marlow Riley Park Day Nursery and Preschool 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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