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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.

Reporting to: Operations Manager

Main Purpose of Role:

• Maintain a safe and welcoming environment for children.
• To lead and ensure effective, professional delivery of Grove Cottage Club
  activities.
• Provision of high-quality respite

General Duties:

• Maintain a safe and welcoming environment for children

Ensure children’s needs are fully catered for including:

• Management and Delivery of club to include.
• Planning activities to best suit members’ requirements and to help members to develop socially and emotionally.
• Plan termly timetables of activities.
• Implement, manage and maintain up-to-date Risk assessments.
• Management of staff including training, performance reviews, appraisals etc
• Management of Club volunteers.
• Responsible for safeguarding members, staff, and volunteers.
• Keep up to date with policies and ensure policy compliance. Work within Ofsted guidelines.
• Professional communication of information to members and families.
• Maintain up-to-date records on Office 365
• Ensure registers are completed accurately to facilitate invoicing and wages.
• Update Grove Cottage database as necessary.
• Attend meetings with the Operations Manager as and when necessary.
• Manage termly expenses budget.
• Ensure children’s needs are fully catered for including:
  Plan outings
  Administer medication and tube feeding as necessary (training will beprovided)
  Prepare snacks
  Assist with toileting and general wellbeing
• Undertake ongoing training, as necessary.
• Liaise with external agencies and other educational settings as necessary.
• Liaise with parents/ carers on an ongoing basis.
• Set up equipment and tidy away each day. Ensure areas are safe and regularly check equipment.

Key Skills & Attributes:

• Minimum Level 3 qualification in Early Years or equivalent
• Experience of working with children with learning disabilities and complex medical
  needs
• Experience in managing staff
• Excellent communication skills – face-to-face, written & on the phone, with the ability to present information to a wide audience at all levels
• Excellent people manager with good interpersonal skills and collaborative management style
• Budget management experience
• Uses initiative to solve problems
• Team player and self-motivated to work on own as required
• Positive role model, enthusiastic and inspires others, an advocate of Grove Cottage
• Professional appearance and approach to work
• Demonstrate integrity and confidentiality and show initiative
• Flexible, adaptable and able to work in a fast, ever-changing, complex environment
• Good attention to detail
• Ability to stay calm under pressure
• Methodical and thorough approach to work
• Be available to lead school holiday clubs
• Designated Safeguard Lead

Desired Qualifications:

• Minimum Level 3 qualification in Early Years or equivalent
• Paediatric First Aid Qualification
• Good administration skills and experience of working with Microsoft 365
• Knowledge of Makaton and symbols

The hourly rate is £15.65 per hour plus holiday pay paid monthly directly into a bank
account.

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.

Reporting to: Saturday Club Leader

Main Purpose of Role:

• Maintain a safe and welcoming environment for children.
• To lead and ensure effective, professional delivery of Grove Cottage Club activities.
• Provision of high-quality respite

Key Objectives:

• Responsibility for safeguarding and health and safety of members, staff and volunteers during clubs.
• Positive role model for staff, volunteers, and members
• Support leader to manage club staff and volunteers.

General Duties:

• To provide professional support for children with special needs ensuring a safe, secure, fun welcoming environment in compliance with Ofsted guidelines.
• Management and Delivery of club to include:
  • Deputise for Club Leader at sessions when required.
  • Assist with planning of activities to best suit members’ requirements and tohelp members to develop socially and emotionally.
  • Work with Club Leader to plan termly timetables of activities.
  • Implement and maintain up-to-date Risk assessments.
  • Management of staff including training, performance reviews, appraisals etc.
  • Responsible for safeguarding members, staff, and volunteers.
  • Keep up to date with policies and ensure policy compliance. Work within Ofsted guidelines.
  • Professional communication of information to members and families.
  • Maintain up-to-date records on Office 365
  • Ensure registers are completed accurately to facilitate invoicing and wages.
  • Update Grove Cottage database as necessary.
  • Attend meetings with the Operations Manager as and when necessary.
  • Ensure children’s needs are fully catered for including:
  • Plan outings
  • Administer medication and tube feeding as necessary (training will be provided)
  • Prepare snacks
  • Assist with toileting and general wellbeing
  • Undertake ongoing training, as necessary.
  • Liaise with external agencies and other educational settings as necessary.
• Liaise with parents/ carers on an ongoing basis.
  • Set up equipment and tidy away each day. Ensure areas are safe and
  regularly check equipment.

Key Skills & Attributes:

• Minimum Level 3 qualification in Early Years or equivalent
• Experience of working with children with learning disabilities and complex medical
  needs
• Excellent communication skills – face-to-face, written & on the phone, with the
  ability to present information to a wide audience at all levels
• Excellent people manager with good interpersonal skills and collaborative
  management style
• Uses initiative to solve problems
• Team player and self-motivated to work on own as required
• Positive role model, enthusiastic and inspires others, an advocate of Grove Cottage
• Professional appearance and approach to work
• Demonstrate integrity and confidentiality and show initiative
• Flexible, adaptable and able to work in a fast, ever-changing, complex environment
• Good attention to detail
• Ability to stay calm under pressure
• Methodical and thorough approach to work
• Be available to work at school holiday clubs
• Paediatric First Aid Qualification
• Good administration skills and experience of working with Microsoft 365
• Knowledge of Makaton and symbols

Desired Qualifications:

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

The hourly rate is £13.45 per hour plus holiday pay paid monthly directly into a bank
account.

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.

Reporting to: Club Leader & Deputy Leader

Hours: 

Main Purpose of Role: To ensure effective, professional delivery of Grove Cottage Club activities and Provision of high-quality respite

Key Objectives:

• To ensure a high level of service delivered by Grove Cottage clubs
• Be flexible and approachable to ensure all organisational needs met
• Positive role model for staff, volunteers and members
• Assist the Club and Deputy Leaders in the event of absences

General Duties – Delivery of sessions to include:

• Planning activities to best suit members requirements and help members to develop socially and emotionally.
• Work in compliance with club Risk assessments.
• Safeguarding members, staff, and volunteers.
• 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 and regularly check equipment.
• Undertake ongoing training, as necessary.
• Keep up to date with policies and ensure policy compliance. Work within Ofsted guidelines.
• Attend meeting with the Operations Manager as and when necessary.
• Undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required of you

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.