Early Years

• Practitioners contribute to planning
• Key worker for groups of children
• Carry out regular care and routine support; including feeding, supporting sleep, changing nappies
• Keep records of children’s routines
• Keep the nursery clean, tidy and organised
• Support children’s play and relationships
• Carry out home visits, as required
• Communicate daily with parents on a routine basis
• Carry out routine daily activities, such as circle time, snack, song time, story time
• Carry out planned activities
• Provide feedback to the team and take part in reflective practice
• Support in the maintenance and upkeep of equipment and buildings
• Create, maintain and update displays
• Effectively manage children’s behaviour
• Implement the principles of EYFS (early years foundation stage)
• Prepare meals and snack, involving the children as much as possible
• Support with cooking and meal preparation
• Monitor, track and record children’s development
• Support children with toileting
• Contribute to managing children’s transitions
• Contribute to managing inventory and ordering or materials, resources and consumables
• Ensure that children are properly supervised
• Support children’s independence and development
• Set up play materials and prepare the play space

Senior Early Years Practitioner

In Addition to the tasks listed above:

• Take responsibility for planning
• Key work and allocate key workers
• Keep developmental records for children
• Help co-ordinate home visits for new children
• Manage admin files based at the nursery
• Ensure that Care-for-me sheets are kept up to date
• Brief Friday staff about children’s needs
• Co-ordinate Extra sessions for children
• Provide regular feedback to the manager
• Co-ordinate inventory
• Co-ordinate washing and laundry
• Manage one of the rooms; equipment, displays, set out, arrangement
• Manage petty cash
• Co-ordinate setting’s inventory
• Provide support and direction to other staff as required
• Provide core feedback to parents, in conjunction with the manager, and carry out parent consultation events as required
• Ensure fruit and vegetables are ordered twice a week
• Ensure that other nursery supplies are ordered according to nursery procedures

Team Leader

In addition to the tasks listed above, team leaders will also have the following responsibilities:

• Contribute to the NMT (Nursery Management Team)
• Deputise for the manager
• Manage a site
• Oversee specific cross-nursery aspects (such as cooking, cleaning, training)
• Lead and conduct parent meetings
• Organise cross-nursery events
• Provide line management for allocated staff
• Produce long term, medium term and short term planning documents for allocated sites

Manager

• Recruit staff new staff members with the support of the administrator
• Provide line management to allocated team members
• Meet 1:1 with all staff at least once per quarter
• Be the key contact for parent issues and complaints, and take steps to resolve complaints, and where required oversee corrective actions
• Ensure that the delivery of early years care and learning in each age group meets EYFS standards, this includes monitoring practice, feeding back to staff, leading by example, implementing new routines or practices and supporting staff
• Support with, and take the lead on staff scheduling to ensure ratios are maintained, but that the nursery is not overstaffed
• Support the cost-effective management of the nursery, to ensure that we are working in ways which is economical, but does not compromise of the quality of the provision
• Ensure new staff and cover staff are adequately briefed and inducted
• Contribute to planning; long term, medium term and short term
• Support with staff training and development
• Support the planning of and delivery of staff meetings
• Keep staff up to date with key information via WhatsApp, team meetings and webpages
• Manage children’s transitions between the age groups
• Lead parent visits to the nursery for prospective parents
• Manage special events and activities with children and families
• Prepare for and arrange regular parent consultation events
• Lead on all aspects relating to SEN or learning difficulties
• Lead on all safeguarding issues, or concerns about abuse or neglect, including liaison with external agencies
• Oversee and manage home visits
• Provide cover in the nurseries, and work as a ratio team member when required or necessary

Director

• Lead on the vision and scope of the nursery and the business strategy
• Support staff training and development
• Champion best practice in nurseries
• Quality Assure provisions, and feedback to staff on a regular basis
• Contribute to recruitment
• Support change management to update practices, procedures and nursery policy
• Manage the website
• Oversee the work of the administrator
• Lead on marketing

Friday Team leader

In Addition to the tasks listed for early years practitioners:

• Take responsibility for planning
• Ensure that Care-for-me sheets for all Friday children are available
• Find out about, and brief Friday staff about children’s needs
• Provide regular feedback to the manager about Friday issues
• Take a pro-active approach to dealing with and resolving problems and issues relating to the Friday Programme
• Co-ordinate Washing and laundry for Fridays
• Create, maintain and update a Friday display board
• Manage petty cash for Fridays
• Co-ordinate inventory for Fridays
• Provide support and direction to other staff working on a Friday
• Provide core feedback to parents, in conjunction with the manager,
• Ensure fruit, vegetables and meals are available for Fridays
• Produce a monthly plan for Fridays, and ensure this is displayed
• Manage the effective set-up and organisation of the physical space on Fridays
• Create, update and manage the Friday rota for staff
• Co-ordinate Friday attendance of children; monitoring spaces
• Ensure children have the correct equipment and belongings from their ‘home’ centre and anything that is moved is replaced after use

Professional Development Leader