Senior Early Years Practitioner

Senior Early Years Practitioner
Islington
23/hr
Start date: ASAP
DBS required for this role, please apply if you have a DBS.
Key responsibilities
1. To take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children in your care and those you come into contact with completing child protection training at a level commensurate with role.

2. Through hands-on practice contribute to the development and maintenance of developmentally appropriate, child-centred, play-based provision for young children which provides the nurturing environment needed to promote children's emotional stability, independence, autonomy and creativity.

3. Foster positive relationships and close working links with the range of professionals in the children's centre in order to promote access to wider integrated services for all families and children and support a multi-disciplinary team around the child and family approach. This includes completing and using common assessment frameworks (CAF) and participating in Team around the Child (TAC) meetings where appropriate.

4. Develop and maintain a partnership with parents that value their contributions and involves them in their child's education, including support for the home learning environment and for ensuring smooth transitions and continuity for the child and parents into, within and out of the setting.
Qualifications
1 Minimum Level 3 qualification in childcare/Early Years practice with suitable practice placements (e.g. NNEB Certificate, NVQ Level 3 - Childcare/Early Years Care, BTEC Nationals in Childhood Studies or equivalent )
2 Substantial post qualifying experience of working with children under 5 in an Early Years setting
3 Educated to English GCSE (A-C) or equivalent or able to pass the Council's literacy tests
Experience
4 The ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, and provide a safe learning environment and recognise when a child is in danger or at risk of abuse.
5 Contributing to Early Help Assessments with a secure knowledge of child development, the importance of early identification and intervention including the range of factors that can inhibit children's learning and development and ability to act as lead professional.
6 Secure knowledge of early childhood development and the importance of early identification and intervention including the range of factors that can inhibit children's learning and development Application/Interview/Test (delete as applicable)
7 Ability to create a stimulating learning environment using knowledge and understanding of the national Early Years framework and the importance of play in young children's development and learning, including for children with SEND Application/Interview/Test (delete as applicable)