If you are offered a Senior EYP role, you will receive a £1000 recruitment bonus after successfully completing your 3 month probation period.

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Early Years Practitioner for our Wolverton Mill Nursery.

Acorn Wolverton Mill provides high quality, affordable childcare and early years education for the local community. The building is purpose built with four spacious play areas indoors, with direct access to four play areas which allows the children to free-flow continuously. We have active CCTV in place throughout the nursery to help maintain a safe and secure environment for your child.

Wolverton Mill offers full and part time care for up to 84 children from the ages of 4 months to 4 years, and we are open from 7:30am – 6pm Monday to Friday all year round.

Role:

To work in partnership with the nursery manager and deputy to ensure effective running of the nursery.
To lead/manage the staff in your designated room/area

To oversee a holistic approach to the curriculum

To lead/manage the nursery on occasions when the manager or deputy are absent
To be held accountable for your designated room/area
To have a good understanding of compliance and ensure it is maintained at all times

To ensure basic care needs of individual children are met

To ensure a high level of well-being among children
To have a good understanding of Acorn’s ethos, values, policies and procedures and that they are reflected in daily practice
A good working knowledge and practice of the EYFS and safeguarding procedures
To ensure in the smooth day to day running of your group or setting in the absence of your Deputy or Manager
To carry out tasks requested

Responsibility

To ensure the staff team`s interactions with children are high quality and based on individual need/stage of development
To demonstrate a positive approach to children’s behaviour working in-line with our policy and procedure
To ensure we are adhering to compliance documentation
To ensure complaints, concerns, queries and compliments are managed effectively
To ensure there are professional, positive relationships demonstrated with parents across the entire staff teams
To support the staff team to understand and implement planning in the moment
To ensure the environment offers rich, first hand learning opportunities for all children which accommodates a holistic approach to the curriculum
To ensure resources and equipment are readily available, accessible and replenished both inside and outside
To ensure children’s interests are being met and appropriate teaching methods are being used to extend children’s thinking and learning.
To ensure all children are making progress to their full potential
To understand and implement planning in the moment
To carry out observations regularly that are of high quality and in-line with Acorn’s recommendations for planning in the moment
To ensure all children are given the opportunity to be independent
To ensure all children have the opportunity to be physically challenged
To ensure the correct paperwork in relation to the child, for example care plans, all about me forms, medicine forms, transition forms and two-year progress check (where appropriate) etc
To ensure there is a robust and effective key person approach adopted
To use strategies such as mentoring and coaching practices to support your staff understanding, knowledge and practice
To undertake regular peer on peer observations
To undertake staff supervisions
To provide information to the manager for annual appraisals
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