Nursery Practitioner (SEND support)

Would you like to have up to 50 paid days off work a year, to further improve your ‘work-life’ balance?

Have you ever dreamed of becoming an architect? Join us and put your design skills to the test as you help the children to plan and build the grandest of sandcastles, with a drawbridge, a moat, and flags flying high on the turrets.

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a mathematician? Join us, and encourage the children to count, as, together, you stack blocks one on top of the other, higher and higher, one, two, three… they all fall down!

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a chef-extraordinaire? Join us, and you and the children will sow seeds in the garden, nurturing and harvesting your vegetable crops, cooking them to perfection in a hot and creamy soup for everyone to enjoy. Oh, how yummy.

Have you ever dreamed of becoming an artist? Join us and encourage the children to explore colour and texture as you dig deep in the craft cupboard for glitter and sequins, sculpt models from dough and mix paints to make rainbows.

You can be anything you want to be, we truly believe that, and there really is no end to what you will achieve here, at Childbase Partnership, as an early years educator. So, can you think of a more rewarding role, a better career choice? No? Then join us, because our nurseries would love to welcome a creative, thoughtful, and caring person like you, to work as part of our team, to help guide our children’s learning and development. And while you’re inspiring the children in your care to dream big and achieve incredible things, we’ll support you to fulfil your full potential.

If your answer is YES to any of the above, then we have an opportunity for you to join one of our 44-day nurseries, where we are going above and beyond by giving our colleagues the opportunity to have up to 50 paid days off work a year, to further improve ‘work-life’ balance and promote better workplace happiness.

You will join us as a Nursery Practitioner at our Willows Day Nursery in Aylesbury, to provide SEND support. Your role will involve working closely with, and under the direction of, the setting’s SENCO, and will include:

• working directly with one or more children with SEND, to support their individual learning and development, in-line with any care plans that are in place for them
• working with a wider group of children to cover their key person’s responsibilities, which will provide the key person with the opportunity to work with a particular child on a one-one basis.

This role is part-time basis and you will work 22 hours a week, all-year-round. Your working days will be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and your you will work 9:30-3:30.

We are seeking a very special person to join us in this supporting role. Someone who:

• is naturally nurturing, caring and compassionate to others
• has some experience of caring for children under five who live with SEND, and ideally your experience will be from within a nursery environment
• can be a positive role model to the children in their care, effectively meeting individual children’s developmental and care needs
• enjoys contributing within a busy, team environment.

We are offering an hourly pay rate of:

• £12.00-£12.60 if you’re qualified to level 6 or above
• £11.50-£12.60 if you’re qualified to level 3, 4 or 5
• £11.00 if you’re qualified to level 2
• £10.90 if you’re not early years qualified.

Just some of the benefits we have to offer you include:

• up to 50 paid days off work
• childcare discount from day one; 50% for your children and/or 20% for your grandchildren
• Perkbox access offering various retail discounts and reduced ticket prices on days out
• ‘recommend a friend’ bonuses of £1,000 every time you successfully refer someone to join our partnership
• complimentary breakfast, lunch and refreshments when you are at work
• Thrive mental health app, employee assistance scheme, occupational health service and private medical care
• career progression and opportunities for future promotion, across our partnership.

Successful applicants will need to provide ‘right to work in the UK’ documentation and evidence of any qualifications essential to the role, undertake a DBS check and provide satisfactory references, prior to commencing employment with us. If your application is successful, our recruitment and compliance team will be there to support you through our onboarding process, every step of the way.