Nursery Room Leader Central Bedfordshire

Passionate Room Leader Wanted at Flitwick Day Nursery!

Room Leader | Full Time | 40 Hours Per Week

Salary: £27,040 per annum

Level 3 Childcare Qualification essential

Are you an experienced Nursery Practitioner ready for your next challenge? Or perhaps you’re already a Room Leader looking for a fresh opportunity? If so, we’d love to meet you!

At Flitwick Day Nursery, we’re on the lookout for a dedicated and enthusiastic Room Leader to join our team in the Owls Room (18–24 months). In this role, you’ll lead a team of 3 staff members to create a nurturing, inspiring environment for up to 12 children each day, bringing our ethos and curriculum to life for our children and their families.

You’ll also collaborate closely with our other baby and toddler rooms to ensure smooth transitions and a seamless experience for all children in our care.

If you’re passionate about early years education and eager to make a difference, come and be part of something special at Flitwick Day Nursery!

Our nursery is open from 7.30am – 18:00pm and we would require you to be able to work varied shift patterns between those times.

Room Leader duties and responsibilities*:

• 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.

Room Leader requirement and skills:

• Full and relevant Level 3 in Childcare qualification – Essential
• Over 1 year’s experience working in Early Years – Essential
• Over 6 months’ experience working in a senior position – Desirable
• 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.

Flitwick 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.

*All perks are pro-rota for part time staff and subject to successful completion of probationary period. These perks may be subject to further conditions and can be withdrawn or reviewed at the discretion of the company.

Vacancy Reference: MK45 1AJ

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