Early Years Teaching Practitioner
Clowns Nursery
Barnet
- £24,000 - £32,000 per year
- New
- Salary:
- upto £32,000.00 dependent on skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Autumn Term 2024
- Apply by:
- 25 August 2024
Job overview
Clowns Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Role Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic, friendly and passionate Early Years Teaching Practitioners to work within our 2 year old and rising 3 year old classes.
- Role Type: Full-time (Monday to Friday, 8:45am – 6:00pm). A minimum of one academic year is required.
- Set Holidays: 9 work days at Christmas, 4 work days at Easter, 10 work days at the end of August and all bank holidays
- Start Date: ideally 27th August 2024 but flexible on a later start date
- Salary: up to £32,000.00 (dependent on qualification and previous experience.
- Location: Cinderella Path, 153 North End Road, London, NW11 7HZ
About the Role
Are you passionate about providing engaging, creative, and ambitious learning opportunities for children in a warm and nurturing environment? Would you like to pursue your career in a dynamic, inspiring, and inclusive setting that truly values both staff and child wellbeing, and continuous professional development? If so, this might be the role for you. We are offering qualified applicants an exciting opportunity to join our long-standing, dynamic and experienced team as an Early Years Teaching Practitioner.
Responsibilities include:
- Supporting the day-to-day responsibilities of the class alongside other team members
- Supporting the team to provide a safe, caring and nurturing environment for all children
- Assisting in the planning of creative, engaging and stimulating activities that meet the age and stage of development of the children
- Ensuring key children’s observations and learning journals are kept up-to-date
- Complying with company policies and procedures at all times
About You
We are looking for someone who:
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced nursery environment
- Has a flexible, collaborative, and reflective working style
- Is a team-player with a positive, “can-do” attitude
- Is reliable and flexible
- Takes initiative
- Is articulate, with a good command of English
Essential Requirements for the Role
Candidates must:
- Have Right to Work status in the UK.
- Have a registered DBS certificate on the update service or have adequate documents to make an application.
- Have proof of an accredited qualification (NVQ Level 2 or 3)
- Have experience of working within Early Years
- Have a good understanding of, and be able to comply with the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (EYFS)
- Have observation, planning and assessment skills that ensure the quality of learning is sustained
- Have an awareness and growing understanding of Ofsted requirements - particularly Safeguarding and Health and Safety
- Be enthusiastic and confident in their ability to engage children and extend their learning through play, enabling their emotional, social and educational development
- Be committed to the safeguarding of children
- Be committed to equality and diversity
About us
Clowns Nursery Manor House Pre-School is an exceptional, independent childcare provider located in a beautiful setting opposite Golders Hill Park and Hampstead Heath. To give you a snapshot of who we are and what we do, please take a look at our website http://www.clownsnursery.co.uk/.
Our vision and ethos at Clowns is to develop the right mindset in our children. We believe in fostering a growth mindset to enable the children to develop the skills they need to become confident, life-long learners who go on to lead successful, happy lives.
What We Offer
- Enrolment in the Royal London Workplace Pension Scheme.
- A friendly and highly supportive manager and staff team
- A well-resourced nursery environment, with high staff:child ratios
- Extensive training opportunities
- Staff Wellbeing Workshops with our qualified Cognitive Development and Wellbeing Lead
How to Apply
Download and complete the application form in full. Please note that we do not accept CV's as a form of application, although you are welcome to include a copy of your CV in addition to the completed application form. Please email all completed applications directly to the Operations Manager, Miss Dudzai Pswarayi, at dudzai@clownsnursery.co.uk.
Applicants must be willing to complete a DBS certificate application and provide us with two reference contacts.
Selected applicants will be invited for an initial Zoom or Teams interview, after which which shortlisted candidates will be invited to complete additional tasks and/or to spend time in the nursery.
Attached documents
About Clowns Nursery
- Clowns Nursery
- Cinderella Path, 153 North End Road, Golders Green
- London
- NW11 7HZ
- United Kingdom
Our Vision and Ethos
Our vision and ethos at Clowns is to develop the right mindset in our children. We believe that by developing the right mindset it enables each child to develop the skills to become a confident and life-long learner who goes on to lead a successful, happy life.
We provide a safe and nurturing learning environment, where we endeavour to meet the wellbeing needs of every child in our care. Our curriculum ensures that children learn through making mistakes and that the process of mistake making is modelled and normalised throughout the nursery.
Our children at Clowns have a ‘can do’ attitude to learning and we foster the development of resilience when learning new skills. Our children understand that learning is challenging, and that they may not be able to do something ‘yet’. They cultivate persistence and learn a range of strategies they can implement when they find something ‘tricky’.
We teach children the value of working together as a team and encourage collaborative learning. We support the children to learn from one another and become inquisitive learners who succeed by asking questions to learn.
All our children are taught to show respect for each other and for those around them. Our curriculum is tailored to embrace and celebrate the rich ethnic and cultural diversity reflected in each class. Our children learn tolerance and mutual respect for different faiths and beliefs through becoming more informed about the festivals and rituals their peers and teachers observe.
We believe learning should be magical and every child should experience awe and wonder. We create inspiring learning environments and promote a culture of creativity, thinking and expression.
Clowns children grow up to be confident and effective communicators who thrive on challenges and embrace new opportunities. As a result, our children are excited and ready to learn and continue learning when they leave us to start the next stage of the learning journey at school.
Please visit our website here.
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