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Acre Wood Day Nursery

Room Leader | Full Time | up to 40 Hours Per Week

Hourly: £14.20 per hour

Are you an experienced Room Leader who's looking for a change? Come and join us at Acre Wood Nursery.

We are seeking a passionate Room Leader to join us in leading our team in delivering our ethos and curriculum to our children and families.

Our nursery is open from 7:00am - 18:15pm and we would require you to be able to work varied shift patterns between those times.

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 always

Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

Requirements

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

Benefits

Why Join Us?

At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

· Annual leave: 24 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and an extra paid day off for your birthday
· Childcare discount: 75% off nursery fees for team members
· Wellbeing support: Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme helpline
· Learning and development: Tailored training and development opportunities to support your career growth
· Pension: Company pension scheme
· Employee discounts: Access to Perkaboo employee discounts
· Mentoring: Employee mentoring programme
· Health and wellbeing: Dedicated health and wellbeing support
· Refer a Friend scheme: Earn up to £750 through our referral programme

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.
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Acrewood 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