Early Years Practitioner - First Steps Day Nursery
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 1 day ago
City: Slough, England
Contract type: Full time
Job Overview
If you are looking for a job where no two days are the same and you can go home feeling rewarded, then this is the right post for you! Your day will involve caring for the children, teaching, playing and having fun whilst keeping them safe.
First Steps Day Nursery is located on site , for staff use, at Wexham Park Hospital and provides high quality care and education for children aged between 3 months and 5 years.
You will be joining an established friendly and talented team. We are open Monday to Friday between 06:45am and 5.30 pm for 51 weeks of the year and you would work an 8 hour shift each day starting at various times through the week between 6.30am and 5.30 pm.
We are looking for a qualified practitioner, but if you feel that you have the relevant attributes to work in Early year's we would love to see your application.
Main duties of the job
The Early Years Practitioner will work under the direction of the Nursery Manager to ensure the provision of high-quality, inclusive care and education for children aged 0–5 years. The post holder will support the planning and delivery of a stimulating early years curriculum, tailored to meet the developmental needs of each child. They will contribute to maintaining a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment where children can learn and thrive.
A key responsibility includes monitoring health and safety practices across the nursery, ensuring that all statutory and local requirements are met. This involves carrying out regular risk assessments, identifying hazards, and implementing appropriate control measures. The practitioner will ensure accurate documentation of safety processes and support the promotion of a safe culture throughout the setting.
The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues and parents, supporting children’s emotional, physical, and social development. They will also contribute to safeguarding and child protection duties in line with NHS and statutory guidelines, maintaining confidentiality and promoting the welfare of all children in their care.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
If you are looking for a job where no two days are the same and you can go home feeling rewarded, then this is the right post for you! Your day will involve caring for the children, teaching, playing and having fun whilst keeping them safe.
First Steps Day Nursery is located on site , for staff use, at Wexham Park Hospital and provides high quality care and education for children aged between 3 months and 5 years.
You will be joining an established friendly and talented team. We are open Monday to Friday between 06:45am and 5.30 pm for 51 weeks of the year and you would work an 8 hour shift each day starting at various times through the week between 6.30am and 5.30 pm.
We are looking for a qualified practitioner, but if you feel that you have the relevant attributes to work in Early year's we would love to see your application.
Main duties of the job
The Early Years Practitioner will work under the direction of the Nursery Manager to ensure the provision of high-quality, inclusive care and education for children aged 0–5 years. The post holder will support the planning and delivery of a stimulating early years curriculum, tailored to meet the developmental needs of each child. They will contribute to maintaining a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment where children can learn and thrive.
A key responsibility includes monitoring health and safety practices across the nursery, ensuring that all statutory and local requirements are met. This involves carrying out regular risk assessments, identifying hazards, and implementing appropriate control measures. The practitioner will ensure accurate documentation of safety processes and support the promotion of a safe culture throughout the setting.
The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues and parents, supporting children’s emotional, physical, and social development. They will also contribute to safeguarding and child protection duties in line with NHS and statutory guidelines, maintaining confidentiality and promoting the welfare of all children in their care.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Minimum of GCSE Maths and English at Grade C/4 or Equivalent
- Gained Early Years Level 2/3 Ofqual Approved Qualification
- Committed to undertake continued professional development (CPD) relevant to personal and professional needs.
- Paediatric First Aid certificate
Essential criteria
- Some experience across full birth to five age range
- Experience in implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage for children from birth to five.
- EYFS Observation, Assessment and Planning.
- Experience of working in a NHS Day Nursery or other full day care setting
Essential criteria
- Ability to work using judgement and reflective practice to observe, assess and plan progressive care and learning experiences for children aged under 5 years
- Skill and ability to differentiate learning experiences across the birth - five years age range
- Good team working skills.
- Knowledge of tracking systems used to monitor children’s educational progression
- Basic IT skills
Essential criteria
- Approachable, confident, consistent and professional manner in communicating with a range of people and in a range of situations including those involving pressure or stress
- Committed to working flexible hours to meet the operational needs of the role
- Committed to attending staff meetings/training after nursery hours.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
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