Early Years Educator

Responsible to: Room Leader / Nursery Manager Hours : Full Time Salary: Competitive Key Roles & Responsibilities: To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare, wellbeing and safety are our primary priority To ensure and maintain the highest standard of care is delivered across all areas of our childrens development Socially, Physically, Intellectually and Emotionally To support all other team members within the allocated room in addition to the wider nursery environment To work as an integral part of a valued team to provide an enabling environment for all children to play, learn and develop Key Areas: Work with and support children Record all information correctly To competently use the Nurserys Famly software to carry out observations and assessments Work as part of a dynamic team Build and maintain strong partnerships with parents Main Duties: To follow and be consistently up to date with the nursery safeguarding procedure, ensuring all children are kept safe, healthy and secure To share knowledge and experience to support other team members and ensure all individuals work within a consistent system to deliver the highest quality of care To keep records of individual key childrens development and learning journeys, making effective use of the Nurserys Famly programme, ensuring parents are always considered as partners To share with Room Leader/Nursery Manager the early identification and intervention for children who may potentially have special educational needs, ensuring all areas of development can be successfully met; adapting activities to meet every individual childs specific requirements Attend all staff training days Ensure all record keeping is completed, stored correctly and is all up to date Ensure daily room checks and outdoor checks are carried out thoroughly Liaise effectively with parents/carers and provide support when necessary Liaise with other professionals and other professionals outside of the Nursery To attend training, monthly staff meetings, parents evenings and any other outside nursery events Undertake various domestic jobs within the nursery preparation of snack, lunch supervision, ensuring the nursery is always fit for purpose and is always left clean and tidy Work closely with any students or volunteers, supporting them with their training programme and providing guidance and support Work alongside all other team members effectively, particularly the Room Leader to ensure the nurserys philosophy is always implemented and achieved Read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures, ensuring all other team members have a full understanding of these and they are adhered to and effectively implemented Ensure the highest standards of hygiene, safety and cleanliness, within the designated area and the nursery as a whole Ensure that the correct procedures are followed when children are brought to and collected from the Nursery To maintain the highest level of confidentiality in all aspects of the Nursery setting To carefully follow the Nurserys Accident and First Aid Procedure and record all information correctly Specific Childcare Tasks: Reporting any concerns regarding a childs welfare to the Nursery Manager and ensure that the correct safeguarding procedures are strictly followed To support, facilitate and implement the preparation and completion of activities based around The Early Years Foundation Stage to support every individual childs learning and development To organise the rooms lunch time and ensure ratios are always maintained. Ensuring lunch times are a time of pleasant and social sharing and interaction Promoting the highest standard of hygiene for children, ensuring good regular handwashing procedures are in place Washing and changing children as required Ensuring any child who is poorly is kept calm, warm and supported and the Nursery procedure for Sick Children is implemented To develop and maintain strong relationships with parents and carers to facilitate a high standard of care both at home and within the nursery setting Enabling and adapting all environments to ensure care is facilitated for children who may have disabilities or any other additional needs TPBN1_UKTJ