Join our Money Puzzle family!
We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate Nursery Practitioners at Level 3 to join our amazing nursery team. As a qualified practitioner, you will be key to the development and growth of the children at the setting, and help maintain the high standards of the nursery.
Benefits:
- Highly competitive pay
- Continued opportunities for professional growth
- A wellbeing-focused leadership team
- Bonus day of holiday on your birthday
- Loyalty & performance rewards
- Two annual inset training day
- Recently refurbished staff facilities
- Paid lunch breaks
- Childcare discount
- Pension scheme
- Loyalty and performance rewards
- Refer a friend scheme benefit of up to £250
- Free on-site parking
Hours & salary:
- Various shift patterns available (between 30 and 40 hours per week between the hours of 7:30 and 18:30, Monday to Friday)
- From £25,000 to £29,000 (dependent on experience)
Your Key Responsibilities:
- To provide the highest levels of care and education for all children attending the setting.
- Supervise, engage with, support, and meet the needs of the children
- Bring a positive attitude and creative ideas that inspire children to learn
- Lead, prepare and join the children in engaging (and sometimes messy) activities aligned with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
- Be proactive and responsive, and react to children’s interests
- Be willing to sing, dance, dress up, and take the occasional trip to the moon
- Assess development for your key children
- Develop and maintain warm and professional relationships with the children, parents/carers, colleagues and visitors
- Maintain the high standards of the nursery
Essential skills & qualifications expected as a Nursery Practitioner:
- Minimum full and relevant Level 3 Early Years qualification
- Proven experience of working in Early Years
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- Paediatric First Aid qualification and basic Safeguarding
- To work productively within a team
- To work with and support parents
- Excellent working knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Excellent knowledge of the current Early Years Inspection Framework
Any necessary training will be provided through our engaging training platform.
About us:
As part of Monkey Puzzle Hartley Wintney, you will be joining our caring, welcoming and supportive team. We have been open since 2016 and are situated in a beautiful leafy setting just outside the picturesque village of Hartley Wintney. We are currently going through an exciting redevelopment project which includes refurbished staff room and kitchen, the creation of a new room for our youngest babies, and an extension of our two gardens to include new natural learning environments for the children.