If you a Level 3 or above Nursery Practitioner who is looking to
develop their career within the early years, please read on.
Little Steps is a two-site nursery with a CIW 'Excellent' rating.
Settings are based at Pontardawe and Ystradgynlais. To start in
August, we are looking for a creative, independent, goal driven,
experienced Practitioner to oversee, manage and lead our new Flying
Start provision at the Ystradgynlais Setting. The individual will work
within a team of twelve individuals across the whole setting and
within a team of 4 within the room. As well as this the Practitioner
will work closely with the Powys Flying Start Advisory Team to deliver
the childcare element of the provision. The setting has a Manager and
two Deputies as well as an Office Manager.
Relationships with children and families are paramount and the
ability to build open and supportive relationships is essential to the role.
The role aims
- to make sure children experience a wide range of creative and
experimental play opportunities in a safe and welcoming environment.
- To ensure a high standard of physical, emotional, social and
intellectual care for all children in their care
- To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare and
safety is promoted
- To give support to other team members within their immediate room
and within the wider nursery
- To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling
environment in which all individual children can play, learn and develop.
The weekly hours will be 33. These are broken down into 5 hours per
day of delivery, 3 hours per week of planning plus 5 hours per week
for preparation.
In any one academic year the contract will run for 39 weeks during
term-time plus the first 3 weeks of the school summer holidays.
As a leader you will be encouraged to
- model and promote good practice
- Promote early identification and appropriate intervention for
children with additional needs.
- Promote equality of opportunity and provide a fully inclusive
service and childcare provision
- Ensure an effective partnership is developed between the home, the
childcare setting and with other organisations/ services in the
Flying Start programme.
- Promote positive parenting skills and model the principles of the
Incredible Years programme and Solihull Approach.
- Promote and display current information on a range of available
opportunities for families e.g. Incredible Years Programmes,
Solihull Approach, Speech and Language groups and other suitable
support services.
- Positively promote and highlight the importance of the Flying
Start childcare entitlement to parents at every available
opportunity which may include attendance with a display/promotional
material etc. at Family Information Services networking events, Stay
& Play/Parent Focus Group events.
- Promote the presence of Flying Start in their setting through
planned ‘open days/sessions’.
- Model and promote the benefits of multi-agency working and
highlight to parents the importance of the benefits of engaging with
and sharing, appropriate information with allied services.
- Work in accordance with data protection and Powys Information
Sharing Protocols.
- Ensure the undertaking of Early Help (EH) assessments on children
as appropriate, referring them to the Early Help Team to gain
additional support.
- Attend and participate at monthly/bi-monthly local business meetings.
- Ensure that the child’s transitions through Flying Start are
seamless and that the child and their family receive adequate
support and information at each stage through their Flying Start
journey including transition into a Foundation Phase provision.
- provide updates/reports developed by the childcare practitioners
and given to parents on a termly basis. Facilitate effective
communication systems to be in place to ensure the efficient
handover of information throughout the child’s Flying Start journey
through the pre-arranged transition meetings that will be held
between the childcare setting and the family on entry and exit to
the Flying Start childcare entitlement
- complete the Foundation Phase Profile and Wellcomm screening tool
with all Flying Start children within their first half-term of
Flying Start funding and update these at the end of each term.
Foundation Phase Profile scores and Wellcomm screening results need
to be submitted to the central office termly, as requested.
- carry out a self-evaluation as directed by the Flying Start
Advisory Teacher.
The setting will be visited by the Advisory Teacher team who will use
appropriate monitoring toolkits to identify aspects of quality and
areas for development.
Flying Start practitioners will attend cluster training sessions
offered by the Advisory Teacher team.