Early Years Practitioner

Salary: £26,000 – £28,080 per year

MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES 

• To contribute as an experienced practitioner to all aspects of the daily operation of the setting, including implementation of operational plans and procedures; delivery of curriculum and educational programmes; catering; health and safety procedures, including safeguarding, cleaning routines and administration of children’s records.
• To provide full care and supervision for the children, ensuring that all their needs are met and working in close partnership with staff from local primary schools to provide fully integrated care and education and smooth transition from one phase to the next.
• To ensure that the setting’s resources are used cost-effectively.
• To promote high standards of behaviour and discipline and to uphold and promote the setting’s policies on equalities and inclusion.
• To implement all other of the settings’ policies and procedures, ensuring that the OFSTED standards are met and records are kept as required.
• To help promote the setting with parents, local schools, other early years settings and the local community and to assist with marketing activities.
• To work in partnership with staff from schools and agencies, including network childminders, in order to deliver multi-agency services to parents and children in the local neighbourhood.
• To work in any of the service’s Children’s Centres and early years settings as required.

MUST HAVE

• Experience of working with children in an early years environment
• Knowledge of current principles and practices in early education and an understanding of early years legislation, including safeguarding
• A Level 3 qualification in early years practice or equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development and a willingness to undertake further training.
• Good listening and verbal skills, combined with the ability to record information clearly
• Ability to implement operational policies and procedures, in line with OFSTED regulations and other legislation, and to work towards quality assurance accreditation;
• Ability to work flexibly, including evenings, breakfast times and occasionally some weekends;
• Physical fitness compatible with early years tasks, including lifting and carrying