The work

In this role, you will learn:

How to meet children’s social, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs by providing stimulating and age-appropriate play and learning opportunities in the setting
How to supervise the children where appropriate and to protect them from dangerous or harmful situations, with the support and guidance of senior staff
How to contribute to a high level of care that will enhance the children’s general health and wellbeing
How to carry out observations of children, discuss the progress of children with the key person and contribute any ideas to informal and formal planning sessions
How to be aware of any special needs a child may have and to familiarise yourself with relevant play and learning plans

Your day-to-day job will be:

To play with and talk to the children
To build warm and supportive relationships with the children
To help with care of the children, including changing nappies, helping a child to clean themselves and change their clothes
To ensure mealtimes are pleasant with conversation and social sharing, and to encourage children to eat a healthy diet
To support children to be independent as much as possible
To help with keeping the nursery clean and tidy at all times
To help other team members throughout the nursery
To record accidents under the supervision of a paediatric first aider
To clear up the nursery at the end of the day
To move and lift furniture and resources to set up and pack away the nursery environment daily/weekly as required
To follow the nursery safeguarding procedure to ensure all children are kept safe, well and secure
To attend occasional out of working hours activities, e.g. staff meetings or training
To be flexible and prepared to help when and where needed in the nursery, including domestic jobs such as cleaning and preparation of snacks
To read, understand and follow all nursery policies
Understand and comply with safeguarding policies
With support, learn about and follow the Early Years Foundation Stage

Training

Training provider: PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE