Nursery Room Leader

Tiptree Day Nursery (ABC)

Room Leader Full Time 40 Hours Per Week

Salary: £27,476 per annum

Location: 22 Grove Road, Tiptree, Colchester, CO5 0JP

Level 3 Childcare Qualification essential

Are you a strong nursery practitioner that's looking for your next step? Or an experienced Room Leader who's looking for a change? Come and join us at Tiptree Day Nursery (ABC).

We are seeking a passionate Room Leader to join us in leading our team in delivering our ethos and curriculum to our children and families.

Why Join Us?

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

• Generous Annual Leave: 24 days to start, plus bank holidays and your birthday off paid!
• Childcare Discount: 75% off nursery fees for your little ones
• Health & Wellbeing Support: Confidential employee assistance helpline
• Career Growth: Personalised learning and development opportunities

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 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.
• 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

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 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.

Tiptree Day Nursery (ABC) 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.