Nursery Assistant

Cannock
6 months ago
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Nursery Practitioner - Level 2

Permanent | Monday – Friday I 40 hours per week - £13.47 per hour

Footsteps Nursery Cannock is located in Orbital Plaza on Bridge Street in Cannock, the same plaza where the iconic Holiday Inn Tower can be seen, south of Cannock Town Centre. Conveniently situated we have fantastic transport links to the A5, A460, A34 and M6 Toll, allowing easy access for work commuters and families from neighbouring towns and villages.

Responsibilities but not limited to:

- Deliver learning experiences and planned activities for a key group that provides outstanding opportunities for the children

- Work within a team to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the children

- Work in partnership with parents to ensure the outcomes for children are met

- Assess and report on children's progress to ensure continued development

- Be passionate, inspiring and work effectively within a team and have a hands on approach to your own professional learning and development

- To be fun, caring and friendly

- To promote a high-quality learning environment

Requirements

What do we need from you?

Passion and commitment to working in childcare

Ability to work shifts between (phone number removed)pm Monday to Friday working between 30 hours per week

Commitment to continual development

Have sound Knowledge of EYFS

NNEB, BTEC Nat Dip, CACHE Dip in Childcare, NVQ level 2 or 3, EY Educator

Benefits

Why Join Us?

 

At Family First, we value our team members and offer a

comprehensive benefits package, including:

 

· Annual leave: 24 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and an

extra paid day off for your birthday

· Childcare discount: 75% off nursery fees for team members

· Wellbeing support: Access to a confidential Employee

Assistance Programme helpline

· Learning and development: Tailored training and

development opportunities to support your career growth

· Pension: Company pension scheme

· Employee discounts: Access to Perkaboo employee discounts

· Mentoring: Employee mentoring programme

· Health and wellbeing: Dedicated health and wellbeing

support

· Refer a Friend scheme: Earn up to £750 through our

referral programme

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare

of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate

will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as

part of our Safeguarding Duty.

Footsteps Nursery Cannock is part of the Family First Group.

Where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and

responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child.

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory

practice for all children and families according to their individual needs.

Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief,

marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender

reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political

belief has no place within the Family First Group

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