Family First Nurseries
Nursery Room Leader
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We are currently recruiting for a Nursery Room Leader to join our team at our Brimpton House Day Nursery and Pre-school.
59 High Street, Kelvedon, CO5 9AE
Room Leader
Full Time - 40 Hours Per Week
Salary: £29,244
Brimpton House is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Room Leader to join the team and inspire creativity and excellence every day. This position is based in our toddler room for ages 1-2 years. As Room Leader, you will collaborate closely with other rooms to ensure smooth and positive transitions across the setting, contributing to a nurturing and welcoming environment for all. Our nursery is open from 8:00am - 18:00pm and we would require you to be able to work varied shift patterns between those times.
Why Join Us?
At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays
- Employee discount / Childcare: 75% off nursery fees for our team members’s
- Health & wellbeing programme: Confidential employee assistance helpline available and mental health first aid trained staff.
- Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
- Company Pension Scheme
- Referral Programme: Recommend a friend for a role and if they are successful receive a cash bonus.
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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.
Room Leader requirement and skills:
- Full and relevant Level 3 in Childcare qualification - Essential.
- 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.
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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.
Brimpton House 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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