Senior Nursery Practitioner

Just Imagine Day Nursery Maldon

Room Leader | Full Time  | 40 hours per week

Salary: £29,244 per annum

Are you an experienced Nursery Practitioner ready for your next challenge? Or perhaps you're already a Room Leader looking for a fresh opportunity? If so, we’d love to meet you! At Just Imagine Day Nursery we're on the lookout for a dedicated and enthusiastic Room Leader to join our team working in the baby room. 

If you are looking for a workplace with a family feel, somewhere your inner child is encouraged and imagination is utilised, where you’re as important as an individual as you are a team player, we want to welcome you!

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.

Company Pension Scheme

On-Site Parking / Free Parking

Room Leader duties:

Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children.

Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development

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.

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 will need:

Full and relevant Level 3 in Childcare qualification - Essential

Over 1 year’ experience working in Early Years - Essential

Over 6 months’ experience working in a senior position - Desirable

Fluent in written and spoken English - Essential

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.

Just Imagine Day Nursery Maldon 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