Nursery Practitioner

Flitwick Day Nursery

Hourly: £13.08 per hour (L2) - £13.58 per hour (L3)

Hours: 30 hours per week, Monday - Friday, All year round.

Flitwick Day Nursery is excited to welcome a dedicated Level 2/3 Nursery Practitioner to our team on a full-time basis working 40 hours per week.

The nursery is just a dew minutes from Woburn Centre PARC, only a minute from Flitwick railway station and 9 minutes from Ampthill. Flitwick Day Nursery is perfectly located for your commute to Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, Milton Keynes, London and surrounding areas.

Requirements

As a Nursery Practitioner, you will:

• Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments, and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
  
• Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met.
  
• Ensure the highest levels of cleanliness and hygiene in the nursery and promote these daily in every routine.
  
• Maintain strictly professional relationships and report any complaints or concerns to management in accordance with company policy and procedures.
  
• Facilitate a strong key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and cover all children daily when colleagues are absent.
  
• Attend regular team meetings to ensure that you remain updated on key priorities, changes, developments and regularly review company policies and procedures.
  

What we are looking for:

• Full and relevant Level 3 childcare qualification - essential
  
• Fluent in written and spoken English - essential
  
• Over 1 year's experience of working in Early Years - desirable
  
• Knowledge of the Statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - desirable
  

Benefits

Why Join Us?

At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

Annual leave: 24 days' holiday, plus bank holidays and an extra paid day off for your birthday

Childcare discount: 75% off nursery fees for team members

Wellbeing support: Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme helpline

Learning and development: Tailored training and development opportunities to support your career growth

Pension: Company pension scheme

Employee discounts: Access to Perkaboo employee discounts

Mentoring: Employee mentoring programme

Health and wellbeing: Dedicated health and wellbeing support

Refer a Friend scheme: Earn up to £750 through our referral programme

Apply now to join our family, fulfil your career where everyone matters and everyone makes a difference. We look forward to receiving your application!

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.

Flitwick Nursery is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.