CHILDCARE PRACTITIONER

Key Responsibilities:

• Respond to children’s individual needs with kindness, sensitivity, and patience.
• Provide pastoral care and support to children within a secure learning environment.
• Deliver play and learning experiences for children both indoors and outdoors.
• Support children’s curiosity and knowledge
• Inspire and enthuse children to develop a love of learning.
• Ensure knowledge of best practice remains up to date.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the service.
• Observe and record child’s progress.
• Develop partnerships with parents/carers to increase involvement in their child’s learning.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be an effective team member.
• Implement daily routines and practices.
• Attend staff meetings and staff training when required.
• Ensure exceptional standards of daily care with regard to children’s physical, emotional and intellectual development and keep relevant records up to date.
• Ensure early years curriculum knowledge is sound and be familiar with all current early year’s documents.
• Contribute to ongoing quality monitoring and planning for improvement.
• Undertake other duties as requested from time to time by the manager

JOB SPECIFICATION

Qualifications required:

• Essential: Candidate must be qualified to SVQ 3 or equivalent.
• Desirable: SSSC registration or meet criteria to register.

Experience

Experience of working with children age 2 to not yet attending school.

Professional and Curriculum development:

An awareness of current developments in early year’s education.

Desirable: Evidence of involvement in relevant professional development.

Personal Skills:

Have a high level of organisational skills and the ability to plan and execute a range of task independently.

Desirable: Enthusiasm for working within a childcare environment.

Communication Skills:

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with young children, parents and staff in a range of formats.

Desirable: Confident on paper and verbally. Good ICT skills. Have a sense of fun.

Interpersonal Skills:

Ability to work as member of a team. Positive, motivating outlook and supportive of others.

Desirable: Effective listener and communicator. Tolerance of and supportive of others, be able to show empathy to others.

Ethos:

Happy, caring, compassionate and friendly personality.

Desirable: Willingness to be involved in wider activities that enhance the service we provide to our children and families.Ability to foster a positive ethos.

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday