Nursery Practitioner After School Club

JOB TITLE:

Nursery Practitioner (After School Club)

REPORTING TO:
Room Leader

Salary: 12.55 per hour

Hours:

Working in our After School Club, with children aged 4-11 years.

Hours:

Monday to Friday, 3-6pm, 15 hours a week, term time only

Annual Leave: 28 days per year plus public holidays. Holiday entitlement is calculated pro rata for term time only and part time contracts. For term time only posts, leave must not be taken during term time.

Location:

The Vinery Centre, 20 Vinery Terrace, Leeds LS9 9LU
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• Work safely and effectively with colleagues as part of the ‘walking bus’ to pick up children from local primary schools (we collect children from two local primary schools).

• Work under the guidance of the Childcare Manager and Deputy Managers.
• Deliver high quality childcare and education.
• Establish positive working relationships with your colleagues and any other professionals that work with the children and their families.
• Work in partnership with other childcare providers and schools to promote the successful transition of children into other settings.
• Support the on-going development of services.

• Effectively implement the setting’s policies and procedures.
• Encourage working practices that positively promote children’s health, safety and general wellbeing.
• Protect children from danger.
• Liaise with parents/carers to help ensure that the particular needs of children are met and that parental choice is considered in terms of care given.
• Sustain a safe, welcoming, purposeful, stimulating and encouraging environment.
• Promote the use of informed observation and other strategies to monitor children’s activity, development and progress systematically and carefully, and to use this information to inform, plan and improve practice and provision.
• Support the process of effective assessment, by accurately recording the children’s developmental progress.
• Plan and provide safe, appropriate, child-led and adult initiated experiences, activities and play opportunities in indoor, outdoor and in out-of-setting contexts, which enable children to develop and learn.
• Select, prepare and use a range of resources suitable for children’s ages, interests and abilities, taking account of diversity and promoting equality and inclusion.
• Actively support the development of children’s language and communication skills.
• Promote positive behaviour, self-control and independence through using effective behaviour management strategies and developing children’s social, emotional and behavioural skills.
• Work in partnership with parents, colleagues and other professionals to ensure co-ordinated support for children with additional needs.

• Establish fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with children, by communicating sensitively and effectively with children.
• Listen to children, pay attention to what they say and respect their views.
• Establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships with families and parents/carers and communicate sensitively and effectively with them.
• Work in partnership with parents/carers and other family members, providing formal and informal opportunities through which information about children’s well‑being, development and learning can be shared to improve outcomes.
• To ensure effective means of communication to families using the centre regarding the provision, including through letters home, notice boards, etc.

• Complete a staff induction programme.
• Attend and positively contribute to staff meetings.
• Attend relevant training courses.

• Ensure that all Ofsted requirements are met.
• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of children in your care working within safeguarding policy and procedures.
• Ensure the efficient and hygienic upkeep of the rooms and facilities.
• Ensure the confidentiality of information about families accessing the setting, complying with Data Protection Act.
• Assess the safety of equipment and resources within the setting.
• Keep up to date with the nutritional needs of the children,…