Third in charge / Room Leader

Salary £27,000-£29,000

40 hours all year round.

Are you looking for a new leadership role? Are you looking to work in a supporting environment? Explore our Nursery Third in Charge role below!

The Little School Daycare are looking for a qualified Third In charge/Room Leader to join their team.

The Little School Daycare, offers a warm and nurturing environment where children aged 3 months to 5 years can start their nursery journey. We have two separate buildings which are spacious and inviting, and both of our buildings are located on Boston Park Road. At The Little School Daycare we are committed to ensuring that children are happy, confident and well cared for so that they are more likely to progress and development into confident learners.

Children learn through play and we seek to provide them with physical resources and the emotional support to enable them to fulfil the foundation stage of the curriculum.We are lucky enough to have large garden areas where children have plenty of opportunities to be active outdoors. Our outside play areas provide an exciting learning environment and encourage children to use their imaginations and have fun. We have an established team of experienced practitioners creating enabling environments and activities to ensure every child achieves their full potential.

We promote parent partnerships and provide daily updates and photos about your child’s routine and activities. We have our own car park to ensure the safe drop off and pick up of children.

As a Nursery Third in Charge, you will:

- Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
- Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development.
- Assist staff in updating the EyLog system and their child learning journals with the highest quality.
- Promote respect and credibility for this position by leading as a role model with impartiality and consistency.
- Assist with embedding an effective key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and identify training or development needs for staff.
- Maintain accurate records and accounts relating to children and staff on EyMan system and on file.
- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times.
- Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met.

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

As a Nursery Third in Charge, you will need:

- Full and relevant Level 3 in Childcare qualification - Essential.
- Over 1 year’s experience working in Early Years - Essential.
- Sound knowledge of Ofsted expectations to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating - Desirable.
- Knowledge of the statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - Essential.
- Fluent in written and spoken English - Essential.

We’re a family by name, and we’re a family by nature too. We are defined in many different ways, by many different people. Different cultures. Different ideas. Different ages, genders and skillsets. Whilst every individual will have their own definition of family, these definitions all come together to show Family First for who we are.

We are: Defined by Family

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.

The Little School Day 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.

Benefits

Family First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. On top of this we have discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends and family, access to a discount/perks platform with exceptional learning & development opportunities tailored to you.