Qualified Nursery Nurse

Location: Cambridge
Job Type: Permanent
Industry: Nursery Teacher
Reference: PE23QNN
Salary: £12.45 - 13.50 per hour + £50 referral bonus
Job Published: 13 days ago

Are you a Nursery Nurse looking for an exciting new position in Cambridge? If so, then we would love to hear from you.

The Nursery has a skilled and welcoming team, which are now looking for a proactive individual to join the team on a full-time basis.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

  • Prioritise the safeguarding of children
  • Responsibility to ensure the relevant statutory and legal welfare and curriculum requirements are always met
  • Enthusiastic passion to deliver high quality childcare and learning opportunities
  • Keep up to date with news and research within the sector and consider how this impacts your practice and your team
  • Take pride in your teams planning, observation and assessment procedure whilst ensuring that they are detailed, reflective an provide developmentally challenging next steps
  • As a keyworker, you will ensure every individual child’s needs are met, including supporting parents with any SEND/ASL needs
  • Speak up against practices that don’t support safeguarding or our core values
  • Remain up to date with our childcare policies and procedures
  • Get to know the families at the setting and create a good relationship with parents whilst also able to manage and resolve parental complaints/concerns in a timely manner
  • Build relationships with local schools to help create an effective transition for each child
  • Be a key player to ensure the nursery receives excellent outcomes in internal audits and those of external authorities such as Ofsted, CI and CIW
  • Ensure we encourage and praise children’s development and achievements

To be eligible for this position, you must have the following:

  • Experience working with children
  • Ideally hold a NVQ/CACHE Level 2 OR Level 3 Qualification in Child Care or above but it is not essential
  • UK eligibility to work
  • An enhanced DBS dated within the last year or willingness to have one undertaken at the cost of £40

By registering with Protocol we can offer you:

  • Full interview preparation and assistance - so you're fully prepped and confident, increasing your chances of success.
  • Online Portal for your timesheets and log your availability.
  • Training and development more than any other agency - which is why we can offer you more certified CPD courses than any other education recruitment agency, 25 to be exact! That's 18 more than our next nearest competitor.
  • Great referral scheme - recommend a friend and earn a generous bonus.
  • Free social and networking events to get to know your peers and consultants

We have vacancies across Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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