Early Years Practitioner - Long Close School - full time

Early Years Practitioner, Long Close School - full time

Organisation: Long Close School, Upton Court Road, Slough, SL3 7LU
Job Title/Role: Early Years Practitioner
Closing date: 12 January 2025
Salary: £18,000
Hours: 8am-4pm Monday-Thursday, 8am-6pm Friday
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract, Full time, Term Time only (approximately 17 weeks holiday)
Website: Leading Private School in Slough - Long Close School

Job description

The role of the Early Years Practitioner is to provide a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment for the Nursery and Pre School children. The successful candidate will be part of adynamic and exciting nursery, promoting positive practice.

Key Accountabilities

Academic and pastoral care

To undertake the planning and the provision of a stimulating range of age appropriate, challenging activities and ensuring the room is well resourced and creatively set up.
To take on the responsibility of Key Person for a small group of children.
To provide a nurturing environment for children to flourish and learn.
To observe and assess the children's learning and development ensuring records are kept up to date, are accurate and of a high standard.
To provide regular assessment data to the Head of Early Years.
Provide relevant feedback to parents/carers about their child.
To work in partnership with all parents/carers, building and maintaining relationships that encourage trust, open communication and involvement in nursery life.
To establish and maintain positive working relationships.
To liaise with Senior Practitioners and teachers to provide a smooth transition within the Early Years.
To ensure all daily safety check routines are adhered to, keep all paperwork up to date, this will include planning, assessing, next steps, children's reports, half termly cohort data to be gathered through Tapestry our online individual child learning journals.
Support the development of good practice with regards to special needs and inclusion.

Operational

Support the Head of Early Years, Nursery Manager and staff during inspections by regulatory bodies and assist in the implementation of any recommendations.
Actively promote the nursery to current and prospective parents.
To adhere to and be aware of early years and whole school policies through the staff handbook.
To work as part of the Early Years Team to ensure the whole environment meets the vision of the setting and that all the children have access to a quality, challenging learning environment.

Staff

To deploy staff and resources effectively, maintaining ratios in your room whilst supporting other rooms.
Work alongside Early Years staff with their day-to-day duties.
Be responsible for taking part in all self-development activities such as annual appraisals.
Develop open and positive working relationships with staff.
To contribute to the whole Early Years team planning and activities.

Health and Safety

Undertake a shared responsibility for health safety and cleanliness throughout the nursery.
Deal appropriately with sickness and injury.
Adhere to all health and safety policy and procedures.
Be fully aware of all emergency and security procedures.

General

To promote the policies and ethos of the school and to promote positive values, attitudes and good pupil behaviour.
To attend staff meetings.
To attend parent meetings.
To be aware of and comply with all policies and procedures in school.
To be a proactive member of the team.

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken is not identified and the post holder shall be required to carry out whatever the Headteacher shall instruct, commensurate with training and experience.

Safeguarding Responsibilities

To comply with safeguarding policies, procedures and code of conduct.
To demonstrate a personal commitment to safeguarding and student/colleague wellbeing.
To ensure that any safeguarding concerns or incidents are reported appropriately in line with policy.
To engage in safeguarding training when required.

How to apply

Apply for the Early Years Practitioner role.

The full Early Years Practitioner job description is on the Cognita People website.