Early Years’ Quality & Curriculum Assistant

We are recruiting!

Blackberries Childcare Group are looking for a highly qualified, ambitious Early Years’ Quality & Curriculum Assistant to support across our Wisbech & March provisions.

Responsible to: Company Director, Operations Director, Finance Director, Head of Early Years’ & Early Years’ Quality & Curriculum Lead.

Salary: Minimum £22,750.00 – Maximum £27,300 per year

Competitive Salary Dependent on Qualification and Experience

Hours: Minimum 32.5 hours per week

Business Hours: Monday to Friday - 07:30-18:00

Company Closures: Statutory Bank Holidays + one week per calendar year.

Reasons to join our dedicated team at Blackberry House Day Nursery:

• Quality In-house mentoring and support from Senior Management.
• Paid Christmas closedown, including Christmas Eve.
• Childcare provision with substantial staff discounts.
• Termly performance related bonus.
• Becoming part of our strong and enthusiastic team, within our excellent Nursery Environments.
• Company Pension schemes.
• Enhanced holiday entitlement, increasing with service.

Your role within Blackberry House Day Nursery:

• To be responsible for ensuring high-quality of teaching is effective in all settings, ensuring that staff are appropriately trained and debriefed for their role and offer appropriate stimulation and support to the children.
• To take responsibility for ensuring all planning is implemented effectively and oversee long-term plans, medium term and daily curriculum plans which support the settings and ensure that each child is working towards desirable early learning goals; to monitor the effectiveness of the groups’ curriculum and liaise with Senior Nursery Managers.
• To be responsible for liaising with Senior Nursery Managers ensuring the level of support to Setting Managers is effective and that the systems for observation and record keeping is regularly assessed; monitored and procedures assessed and evaluated.
• To liaise closely with parents/carers, informing them about the Nursery and its curriculum, ensuring nursery procedures for the exchange of information about the children’s progress are in place and effectively supporting the staff in ideas and events to encourage parents’ involvement. To ensure parent newsletters are current and distributed.
• To ensure all Nurseries within our Group are safe and environments offer diverse learning opportunities for all children, that all equipment is safe, standards of hygiene are high, safety procedures are implemented at all times and fire drills are regularly practised. To ensure that Accident/Incident records are maintained and up to date by liaising with the designated persons responsible at all Blackberries settings.
• To contribute to and implement all Blackberries policies and procedures. To spot-check that all Nursery Managers Policy and Procedure Files are up to date and that all staff have signed the Safe Systems at work policy to record they have read all and new policies.
• To work collaboratively with the Internal Training Co-ordinator and Senior Management teams to enhance the overall curriculum of settings and to be actively involved in supporting new initiatives, as and when necessary, creating and monitoring action plans that will promote continuous improvement, offering creative suggestions and solutions where required to support settings to achieve their full potential offering outstanding childcare.

*Your Qualifications and Experience:*

• Experience in managing nurseries with high occupancy.
• Early Years BA Hons Degree, Teaching Degree, National BTECH Diploma in Early Years, Diploma in Pre-school Practice Course, NVQ Level 3 or SVQ
• Willingness to learn
• Previous experience of working with young children.
• Commitment to equal opportunities
• Commitment to young children and families
• Friendly, flexible approach

Visit our website and social media pages to find out more:

www.blackberryhousedaynursery.co.uk

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £22,750.00-£27,300.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Childcare
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus

Work Location: In person