64 Senior Practitioner jobs

We are an inclusive early years setting, working closely with a range of children and their families. The nursery has been running for 10 years and are fortunate to have a hard working, respectful, passionate and friendly staff team. With the development of our new nursery building we are looking to recruit a senior practitioner to support in our strive to providing outstanding care to children and their families. The post is for 36 hours a week/full time,  for 52 weeks of the year. However, we are closed between Christmas and the New Year. We are open Monday to Friday, 7.30am-6pm The senior job role is a mix of working on the floor with the children as well as supporting the management with the day to day running, having individual responsibilities and working independently or part of a team to complete tasks. Each staff member has an induction, including virtual college/e-learning and has opportunities throughout the year for training and development. Senior responsibilities: To plan, organise and facilitate the running a nursery room working in partnership with the Nursery senior management team to ensure Ofsted requirements and the ECM outcomes are met. To ensure the physical environment promotes active learning and reflects the key areas of learning in the EYFS   To work in partnership with parents actively engaging them in their child’s learning   To represent KIDS professionally in all contacts with external agencies preparing reports as and when required. To comply with all KIDS policies and procedures particularly around equal opportunities, safeguarding and health and safety. To work closely with professionals to improve communication between agencies. To line manage staff effectively supporting them to meet targets and encourage good practice. To enable staff to actively engage in the planning and assessment process to enhance children’s learning in a safe and stimulating environment. To ensure the key person system is properly implemented encouraging professional relationships that are warm and caring. To lead team meetings, participate in staff meetings and engage in the Nursery senior management team meetings.  To implement baseline assessments and Individual Education Plans specific to individual needs with the support of the QTS and Inclusion co-ordinators  To ensure the physical environment is child focused and welcomes all children, families and professionals celebrating diversity and the children’s work.  To attend training and supervision sessions to enhance ongoing professional development

Senior Nursery Practitioner 8am - 5pm working day 38 weeks a year (with a chance to earn some more money in the holidays) Non Packaway Bo-Peep is a small Nurturing Teaching Nursery looking for someone special to join our team so if the qualities below sound like you, please get in touch. You must hold a level 3 (or above) qualification in childcare and relevant experience working in a nursery. (Please do not apply without these) You must have at least 3 years experience working in a Teaching Nursery You must have a warm smiling face that makes every child feel special. You must be able to laugh at jokes you don’t understand, or you don’t find funny! You will leave work every day with muddy, wet clothes and know that it means it’s been a good day! You must enjoy long holidays (we are term time-only and use the holidays wisely to re-energise ourselves) You will preferably have a little bit of quirkiness. If a child requests that you be the Big Bad Wolf, you will be the best Big Bad Wolf you can be! The ability to sing in tune is not necessary, however the ability to sing out of tune in front of a crowd is essential. As is dancing to all types of music! You must be able to distribute warm hugs as required. You know who Peppa Pig, Elsa, Anna, Bob, Captain America, and Sponge Bob are and know every single word to ‘Let it Go’. Possessing the skills required to rapidly count the heads of numerous moving small people is of the utmost importance. Given just some sticks and leaves, you could create something amazing that even Blue Peter presenters would be proud of. You must have a high level of comfort around talking about bodily functions. You must have a strong sense of smell to enable you to respond to said bodily functions. Pretending to eat playdough creations realistically is required, and that of drinking numerous cups of pretend tea. You must be able to get the attention of 20 busy and energetic children without raising your voice. You must have the ability to read a ten page fairytale, upside down, with at least 4 interruptions per page. You must be prepared to have lots of fun in the workplace. Laughter is something you can expect to engage in for a large part of your working day. Finally, you must be prepared to feel loved, special and important to many young children and their families. There is simply no other job quite like this one. To apply, please send an up to date version of your CV via the form below!

Falcon British Nursery is hiring a practitioner    The premier nursery is located in the calm leafy suburbs near Ministry of Interior and Zayed Sports City   Language:  English    Employment Type: Full Time Contract   Package: Competitive package including 8 weeks paid vacation, sponsored visa, flight allowance to your home country and medical insurance for visa sponsored staff, external and internal CPD and a free child place for your nursery aged child. 8 hours / day including time for parent communication, prep, planning and updating assessments.   Minimum Work Experience: 2 Years with experience letter   Minimum Education Level: Degree in education or Cache 3 / NVQ 3 or Cache 2 / NVQ 2 and in progress towards Cache 3 / NVQ 3 (attested)   Minimum Expectation: Passionate, dramatically enthusiastic, innovative and creative, warm, works well in a team, builds good parent partnerships, plans for learning based on observations and children’s needs, accurate in assessment understands child development and creates enthralling experiences for all areas of learning.    Company Size: 50+ Employees with ability to progress and take on additional tasks   Falcon British Nursery is the only NDNA UK accredited nursery in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Join our Falcon Family today.

EARLY YEARS PROFESSIONAL  / NURSERY PRACTITIONER Nutfield Day Nursery, Church Hill, Nutfield, Surrey  RH1 4JA Purpose of Post: .        To assume overall responsibility for raising the quality of early years provision, including physical, emotional, social and intellectual education and care for children in the setting. .        To promote excellent practice at all times .        To lead practice across the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) .        To support and mentor other practitioners in the skills and behaviours that safeguard and promote good outcomes for children. .        Staff management will be included here where you are working out of ratio as Manager or in the absence of the proprietor.   Key Areas   .        Knowledge and understanding of EYFS .        Effective practice .        Relationships with children .        Communicating and working in partnership with families and carers .        Teamwork and collaboration .        Professional development of other practitioners .        When working as manager or in the absence of the Proprietor duties will include marketing, management or business development/planning.   Responsible To   The proprietors Mr and Mrs L Bertin and to a certain degree parents and children   Hours of Work   41 hours per week between 7 am and 7 pm Monday to Friday.  Hours determined on the last working day of the previous month.   Pay £19507.80 Gross per annum   Main Duties   Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS   .        Ensure that all practitioners understand the principles and content of the Early Years Foundation Stage and know how to put them in to practice. .        Support other practitioners in acknowledging the various influences and transitions experienced by a child from both inside and outside the setting. .        Practice and promote current legal requirements, national policies and guidance on health and safety, safeguarding and promoting the well-being of children.   Effective Practice   .        To be accountable for the delivery of high quality provision within the setting. .        Encourage other practitioners to have high expectations of all children and to demonstrate commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full potential. .        Establish and sustain a safe, welcoming, purposeful, stimulating and encouraging environment where children feel confident and secure and are able to develop and learn. .        Promote the use of informed observation and other strategies to monitor children’s activity, development and progress systematically and carefully, and to use this information to inform, plan and improve practice and provision. .        Plan and provide safe, appropriate, child-led and adult initiated experiences, activities and play opportunities in indoor, outdoor and in out-of-setting contexts, which enable children to develop and learn. .        Select, prepare and use a range of resources suitable for children’s ages, interests and abilities taking account of diversity and promoting equality and inclusion. .        Actively support the development of children’s language and communication skills. .        Promote children’s rights, equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatroy practice in all aspects of the setting. .        Establish and maintain a safe environment and employ practices that promote children’s health, safety and physical, mental and emotional well-being. .        Encourage all practitioners to recognise when a child is in danger or at risk of harm and know how to act to protect them. .        Support the process of effective assessment, recording and reporting on progress in children’s development and learning and use this as a basis for differentiating provision. .        Encourage all practitioners to talk to children, giving constructive and sensitive feedback to help children understand what they have achieved and think about what they need to do next., .        Introduce/ maintain a positive and proactive culture amongst practitioners in being able to identify and support children whose progress, development or well-being is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances, ensuring staff know when to refer then to colleagues for specialist support.   Relationships with children   .        To ensure that all practitioners establish fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with children, communicating sensitively and effectively with children from birth to the end of the foundation stage. .        Encourage a culture of listening to children, paying attention to what they say and valuing and respecting their view. .        Ensure all staff demonstrate the positive values, attitudes and behaviour, which the setting expects from the children.   Communication and working in partnership with families and carers   .        Establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships with families and parens’carers, and communicate sensitively and effectively with them. .        To work in partnership with parents / carers and other family members, providing formal and informal opportunities through which information about children’s well-being, development and learning can be shared to improve outcomes.   Teamwork and collaboration   .        Establish and sustain a culture of collaborative and cooperative working between colleagues. .        Influence and shape the policies and practices of the setting and share in collective responsibility for their implementation. .        Contribute to the work of a multiprofessional team and, where appropriate, coordinate and implement agreed programmes and interventions on a day-to-day basis.   Professional development   .        Encourage all practitioners in the setting to develop and use skills in literacy, numeracy and information and communication technology to support their work with children and wider professional activities. .        Plan an active role in identifying and finding ways of meeting the professional development needs of practitioners in the setting.