Job Description
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Join our exceptional team
Seymour House is a family run day nursery group with 35 years of experience in making a real difference to families, our team, the environment, and the community.
Our success is built on the experience of our team and their dedication to achieving our goals. So, we want to reward our team by creating the best place to work in early years, where people can grow with us, create a lasting impact, and share in our success. We want our team to feel connected to our purpose, trust they are valued and be able to fulfil their career ambitions.
The Early Years Educator role is key in delivering and inspiring high quality, beyond brilliant early years education, acknowledging every child is unique through our bespoke educational programmes. You will build meaningful relationships with children, parents and colleagues using consistent and effective communication. This role is suitable for someone passionate about Early Years and looking to fulfil their career in a flexible, friendly, and creative environment.
Perks of the role
Competitive salary
Nursery discount for employees' children
28 days annual leave including bank holidays, increasing to 31 over 3-years
A friendly, flexible team with social events throughout the year
Ongoing training opportunities
Health and wellbeing resources and support
Free life coaching in the Dream Academy
Discounted gym membership
Access to a financial wellbeing service
Specsavers eyecare vouchers
Delivering Beyond Brillant Care and Education
Implementing and promoting the Early Years Foundation Stage through the delivery of our 5C's curriculum, our unique pedagogical approaches and our bespoke educational programmes
Having high regards for all matters relating to safeguarding children and child protection, keeping up to date with the organisations safeguarding policies and procedures, and training, and reporting any concerns to the Designated Safeguarding Lead
Promoting children's sense of belonging supporting diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities for all
Delivering high quality teaching and learning tailored to the children's individual needs, with maximum impact on children's outcomes. Ensuring children are provided with every opportunity to meet their full potential through fun and exciting age and stage appropriate experiences, in line with our policies and procedures, vision and values
Supporting children to have the best start in life so they live healthy, happy lives by promoting their wellbeing and delivering our fresh, tasty, wholesome meals and food education resources
Ensuring our inspiring learning environment is effective to deliver our curriculum, that the resources are of high quality, safe and fit for purpose and that homebase rooms are clean, tidy and meet professional standards
Taking responsibility for the health and safety of themselves, and adhering to organisations policies and procedures to ensure children and others are kept safe within the nursery environment
Managing effective and timely record keeping, to include children's developmental records, observations, assessments, accident, first aid and medicine administration records, homebase cleaning logs, etc.
Nurturing Partnerships
Supporting a nurturing environment, demonstrating empathy, warmth and kindness towards others, in line with our team and brand values
Forming strong bonds with children, tailoring their care to their individual needs and interests as role of Key Person
Demonstrating effective and consistent communication with colleagues, parents, the training provider and other professionals where relevant, representing the organisation positively
Building supportive parent partnerships, ensuring effective use of our in the moment planning and record keeping so that parents are engaged in their children's learning and promote home learning ideas and experiences
Providing exceptional handovers at the end of the day to parent/carer so they are informed of their child's enjoyment, educational experiences and care routines for the day
Leading parent partnership discussions for key children in person or remotely with confidence, sharing expertise, knowledge and details of children progress and next steps
Ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction, to maintain an excellent reputation
Establishing and maintaining professional working relationships with colleagues within the team, working together to nurture each other, our community and planet, and implement a safe, clean and tidy environment for all children and colleagues to thrive
Learning and Development
Taking responsibility for own CPD and personalised skill development by being reflective and identifying training needs
Keeping knowledge and skills fresh, and sharing new knowledge and current early years thinking with the management team and colleagues
Attending training and CPD opportunities that are offered
Being open to and put forward new ideas and ways of working to positively impact children, parents and team
Sharing practice and new ideas with others through our Community platform
Other Information
This job description is not exhaustive, and the post holder is required to undertake any other reasonable duties as directed by the Nursery Management Team.
We actively promote equal opportunities and are committed to equality and diversity for all our children and team. Applicants will be considered on merit only, irrespective of race, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or belief.
A copy of the Company's Equal Opportunities Policy and Disclosure Information Policy is available on request.
Seymour House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all team members and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is classed as having a high degree of contact with children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. An enhanced check is completed and regularly updated through the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Requirements
About you
A minimum Level 3 in Early Years
Early Years Teacher Status is required for this to be considered an Early Years Teacher role
You must be able to build meaningful relationships with all stakeholders, children, parents and team, and have good communication skills and maintain confidentiality
A real 'can do' attitude and self-motivation is essential - we need our team to love working together!
Having a passion for working in an environment with young children is essential
You must be eligible to work in the UK and obtain a satisfactory DBS.