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Reporting to: Nursery Manager

Hours: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent – Monday to Friday

Main Purpose of Role: To ensure effective, high quality and professional delivery of Grove Cottage‘s Special Needs Nursery provision.

General Duties:

• Maintain a safe and welcoming environment for children

Ensure children’s needs are fully catered for including:

• Support children socially and emotionally
• Deliver stimulating and fully-inclusive activities within the EYFS framework
• Deliver appropriate extracurricular activities
• Take part in outings, including weekly swimming sessions and half termly day trips
• Administer medication and tube feeding as necessary (training will be provided)
• Prepare snacks
• Assist with toileting and general wellbeing
• Set up equipment and tidy away each day. Ensure areas are safe. Regularly check equipment
• Keep up to date with policies and ensure policy compliance. Work within Ofsted guidelines
• Observe, monitor and report on children’s progress within the EYFS framework
• Undertake ongoing training, as necessary
• Liaise with schools and other educational settings. Assist with smooth transitions into nursery and to new settings
• Liaise with parents/carers on an ongoing basis
• Participate in meetings with families and external agencies
• Attend regular staff meetings

Key Skills & Attributes:

• Experience of working with children with learning disabilities is desirable
• Knowledge of Early Years services and EYFS is required
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Basic IT skills
• Willingness to undertake training as required
• Good at juggling tasks
• Uses initiative to solve problems
• Team player and self-motivated to work on own as required
• Focused on getting job done
• Positive role model, enthusiastic and inspires others, advocate of Grove Cottage
• Professional appearance and approach to work
• Demonstrate integrity and confidentiality and show initiative
• Flexible and adaptable
• Good attention to detail
• Ability to stay calm under pressure
• Methodical and thorough approach to work
• Organised

Other Information:

• Opportunity to work in a unique setting
• Promoting and maximising learning opportunities for children with a range of additional needs
• Assisting in the implementation of the EYFS areas of learning, tailored to each child’s abilities
• Sharing progress with parents using the Tapestry reporting platform
• Tracking progress using the ‘Birth to Five’ Development Matters framework
• Previous experience in an Early Years setting is required
• Informal pre-visits to meet the Nursery team and children are welcomed as part of the pre-interview process
• Ability to commute/relocate to Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 3JX: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Required Qualifications:

• NVQ Level 3 in Early Years (or equivalent)
• Paediatric First Aid

The above is designed to help you in the understanding of your role and is not exhaustive nor intended to be a definitive list of your duties, as flexibility in meeting Grove Cottage’s needs is required by all employees.

The offer of this post is subject to enhanced DBS checks, two references and a three-month probation period.

Grove Cottage is an equal opportunity employer.