Level 3 Qualified Nursery Nurse
Nurse Seekers is proud to be recruiting a Level 3 Qualified Nursery Practitioner and Room Leader on behalf of a private Nursery based in Dorchester. The successful candidate must be able to work as an effective member of an early year's team contributing to the education and care of children from ages 3 months.
Key Responsibilities
- To plan as part of a team and implement a curriculum programme, meeting the needs of individual children, supporting and enabling their learning.
- To support Keyworkers to observe, record, assess and report individual children's progress in accordance with policy and procedures.
- To be involved in the delivery of an effective early year's service, participating in relevant teams as necessary.
- Keep abreast of early years local and national developments.
- To support children's well-being meeting the needs of the individual child in accordance with our duty of care.
- Support and challenge children's learning, through stimulating and purposeful learning situations indoors and outdoors to help children develop skills in the Prime and Specific Areas of Learning for children up to the age of five.
- Organise the learning environment to best enable children's learning and encourage and extend children's questions and investigations (displays, artefacts/resources, furniture, etc).
- Encourage the emotional, social, physical, creative and intellectual development of the children.
- Contribute to the warm, supportive and caring environment for all children.
- Welcome children and parents, as part of induction and help with liaison at transition.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours - individually negotiated
- Paid break during day
- 28 days plus half a day per year worked holiday per year, including Bank Holidays, rises each full year at April up to 30 days
- Full induction training
- A commitment to fully funded CPD - incl. Food Hygiene, First Aid, Health & Safety, Child Protection, Equal Opportunities, etc, - all provided free of charge for all staff
- Full/Part Funded Qualifications by agreement with real opportunities for career progression
- DBS checks paid by Sunny Days
- Length of Service Rewards
- Auto-enrolment Pension Scheme
- Hot staff lunch provided when on duty
- 50% childcare discount
- Free Flu Jab
- Uniform – polo, fleece & jacket - all provided free of charge for all staff
- Sick Pay Scheme – eligible after one years' service
- ‘Refer a New Recruit' Scheme
If this sounds like the type of vacancy you feel you have been looking for, then apply today! Alternatively send your most up-to-date CV to