Job Description

Nursery Room Leader

Department: Nursery Room Leader

Employment Type: Part Time

Location: Monkey Puzzle Loughton

Compensation: £23,628 / year

Nursery Room Leader (Level 3)

Location: Monkey Puzzle Loughton

Hours: Monday to Thursday - 36 hours per week including a 1 hour unpaid lunch break.

Salary: Starting from £23,628.80 per annum (dependent on qualification(s) and experience)
Join our caring, welcoming and supportive team at Monkey Puzzle Loughton.

Why Us?

Our vision is to inspire change through excellence in childcare, creating a positive impact for generations to come. For over 20 years we have been providing children the highest quality of care with unlimited opportunities to grow, learn and develop in our safe and secure environments for.

But don't just take our word for it... we are Great Place to Work Best Workplaces, Best Workplaces for Women 2024 and Best Workplaces for Wellbeing 2022 & 2023

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting your team to grow and perform at a high standard, whilst ensuring that all legislation and EYFS frameworks are adhered to
• Engaging your team to create inspirational, creative and effective learning environments in line with the needs of the children and the nursery
• Team working, we are a lovely family feel nursery and we strive for happiness for our people
• Ensuring the safety and welfare of children through a confident knowledge of safeguarding processes and procedures
• Implementation the EYFS with a good understanding of child development
• Reporting issues of concern to a senior team member or relevant services
• Partnership working with parents and our partners to ensure our children thrive
• Positive attitude with children, parents, colleagues and visitors to maintain our happy nursery
• Clear and accurate record keeping and report writing
• Promoting a high standard of quality within the nursery including practice, environment and resources in line with our nursery expectations

Essentials

Essentials

• Minimum full and relevant Level 3 Early Years qualification
• Safeguarding Knowledge
• At least 2 year's experience working as a nursery practitioner or similar in an Early Years setting.

Benefits

What can Monkey Puzzle Offer?

· Length of Service Recognition We want you stay with us! We recognise and reward your length of service with Monkey Puzzle with vouchers

· Competitive Salaries We are not here to penny pinch. Our salaries are competitive based on your position and the job market. Salaries are reviewed throughout the year.

· Enhanced Maternity Pay Enhanced pay after 2 years’ service

· Medicash: Cover for dental treatments, optical, doctor consultations, therapies, and prescriptions as well as mental health support

· YuLife: You will be enrolled into our Group Life Assurance policy and have access to the YuLife app

· Refer a Friend Bring connections to work with us and earn rewards

· Flexible Working We would like to be able to give you the choice and flexibility to reduce your working hours.

· Social Events We arrange catch ups with the team alongside our Christmas parties

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Safeguarding Statement

Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries are committed to Keeping children safe; therefore, it is necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record Disclosure and Barred check to be undertaken. All posts involving direct contact with children and vulnerable adults are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected'. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. All candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions, you may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure & Barring Service before your employment commences.