Nursery Room Leader

Do you shine when being a part of children’s learning and development, making a difference by helping to create a fun and nurturing environment. If so, read on…….

We are EDG Nursery. Staffed by a dedicated and professionally qualified team. We have a thorough knowledge both of child development and care for our children. We thrive on working as a team to ensure our children have the very best we have to offer their educational journey.

We pride ourselves on being a multicultural setting with a mutual passion for the Reggio Emilia Approach, derived from Northern Italy and world renowned for its progressive philosophy for building an education system fit for children.

As a nursery, we believe in working together, having positive and professional relationships with colleagues, children and their parents. It is important for us to have a strong team in place, therefore we look for the following qualities;

· Passionate

· Someone who delivers high quality practice

· Provides a stimulating and enabling environment

· Open-minded

· Professional

Want to join our team?

We are looking for a driven and hardworking Early Years Room Leader. To be a leader of a team on that floor, providing an emotionally secure, warm, stimulating and safe environment, appropriate to the needs of individual children. There must be excellent knowledge of the Early Years foundation stage and disseminate it to staffs working on that floor.

Main Duties and responsibilities

• Promote high standards of quality within the nursery in respect of the environment, resources and experiences offered to children.  
• Provide professional and relevant feedback to parents/carers about their child.  
• Ensure all records of development and learning are fully and accurately maintained at all times.  
• Deploy staff appropriately to ensure that the required standards are delivered and maintained within the play room.
• Implement and support others in delivering, the EYFS in line with current practice and guidelines.
• Ensure the effective implementation of the nursery key worker procedures and allocate children to key workers appropriately.
• Ensure that children are kept safe and that staff understand and, when necessary, follow Safeguarding Procedures.  
• Develop and maintain highly professional working relationships with all staff and parents
• Undertake a shared responsibility for health safety and cleanliness throughout the nursery.
• Support the Nursery Management team during inspections by regulatory bodies and assist in the implementation of any recommendations.
• Support and mentor staff/students with their day-to-day duties.
• Be responsible for taking part in all self-development activities such as appraisals and identify and address individual training needs of staff.  
• Ensure that the Company’s polices on diversity and equal opportunities are adhered to.
• Assume additional management responsibilities as and when required.

*The duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added. This job description may be reviewed in the future.

What we offer:

• We want you to love working for us – refer a friend to work with us too and you’ll receive up to £300!
• 28 days paid holiday (including bank holidays and Christmas closure)
• Paid training x2 days per year.
• Free accredited online training working with Noodle now
• Termly Performance Rewards Scheme: Gym membership, Shopping vouchers, Spa Treatments, and more
• Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice from housing/land lord issues, debt management and bereavement. This service is also available to your partner and children who live with you.
• Free Paediatric First Aid training through accredited provider.
• Annual team building day + dinner funded by the nursery.
• Annual Christmas dinner funded by the nursery.