Early Years Room Lead

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Supporting Nursery Management

• To support the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager in the smooth day-to day running of the nursery, by effectively leading, assisting and supporting staff within a chosen room ensuring best practice and safeguarding standards are met with the children.

• To lead the team planning in providing a range of age-appropriate activities in line with the curriculum and individual needs of the children within your room with regard to their physical, social, emotional and intellectual development. Planning will include the preparation of activities linked with the school cross-curricular themed days as directed by the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager.

• To support colleagues within your room to ensure all day to day record keeping is kept up to date, with our on-line portal (Family).

• Where appropriate, to work with the EYFS SENDco to plan and deliver interventions. This may include working alongside external agencies. Key Person

• To be responsible for a (within ratio) group of children within your chosen room, encouraging and supporting children’s individual development and learning. Promote positive behaviour management for your children.

• Maintain daily routine and longer-term developmental observational and pastoral records via the on line portal (Famly) including parents’ evening notes, and update the Nursery Management Team with relevant information.

• Ensure the welfare of all the children in your care, are safe, happy, enjoy nursery and are integrated into all aspects of school life, as appropriate.

• To create a sound professional relationship with each child’s family and their carers.

• Ready to be a buddy key person as directed by the Nursery Management Team to ensure consistency of care to the children in the room.

• Be aware of the needs of individual children when supervising mealtimes, including dietary and medical issues and maintain up to date room dietary requests. • To be aware of and demonstrate the school values within the nursery.

• Be prepared to communicate in person details of any incidents or information as appropriate.