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Nursery Practitioner - 14 hours per week

Employer
Burlish Park Primary School
Location
Burlish Park Primary School, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, DY13 8LA
Salary
Grade 1 (Scale 1-2) - 14 Hours per week.
Closing date
11 Dec 2024
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Main Activities:

 Delivering challenging, engaging, and enjoyable activities.

 Forming relationships with the children, enabling them to be comfortable in their surroundings and providing an environment where they can play and explore.

 Working as part of a team to deliver a high standards of care and education.

 To ensure that nursery is a safe environment for children, staff and others.

 Good understanding of safeguarding issues.

 Developing partnerships with parents/ carers to increase involvement in their child’s development.

 To provide a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors, at all times.

 To deliver an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that enables children to make individual progress.

 To help ensure the nursery meets Ofsted requirements at all times.

 To work with other professionals in the local area for the benefit of children and families.

 To understand and work to nursery policies and procedures, including how to deal with child protection issues appropriately and how to respond to incidents, accidents, complaints and emergencies.

 To plan activities which ensure each child is working towards the early learning outcomes.

 To provide intimate care.

 To provide first aid if trained.

 To ensure records are properly maintained, e.g. daily attendance register, accident and incident book, risk assessments.

 To liaise closely with parents/carers, informing them about nursery and its curriculum, exchanging information about children’s progress and encouraging parents’ involvement.

 To work in partnership with senior management to update and review the self-evaluation and improvement plan.

 To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed, in accordance with the preschool aims and objectives.

Generic Responsibilities

Additional Responsibilities 

 To undertake and further training as required.

 To be aware of and observe all policies, procedures, working practices and regulations. In particular: o Employees must comply with the provisions of ‘The Heath and Safety at Work Act 1974’ and must take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and of other persons who may be affected by their acts of omissions whilst at work. Employees are also required to cooperate with their employer to enable them to perform or comply with any statutory provisions. The Trust’s efforts to promote a safe and healthy working environment can only succeed with the full co-operation of its employees.

o To understand, comply with and promote the Trust’s safeguarding policy and procedures. It is the responsibility of all employees to make the working environment safe and secure for all.

o It is the responsibility of all staff to comply with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy. The key responsibilities for staff under this Policy are set out in the Trust Code of Conduct. The duties described in this Job Description must be carried out in a manner which promotes equality of opportunity, dignity and due respect for all employees and service users.

o The maintain the confidentiality about pupils, clients, staff and other Trust business. The work is of a confidential nature and information gained must not be communicated to other persons except in the recognised course of duty. The post holder must meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act at all times.

o To report to line manager, or other appropriate person, in the event of awareness of bad practice.

o Employees must adhere to the Code of Conduct and comply with all reasonable management requests.

This job description is intended to provide a broad outline of the accountabilities and responsibilities only. The post holder will need to be flexible in developing the role in conjunction with the line manager. The post holder may be asked to carry out any other delegated duty or task that is in line with their post

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