Nursery Assistant - Unqualified

Cherrybrook Nursery

Scotlands Bridge Road, Addlestone, KT15 3HQ

Nursery Assistant

42.5 hours per week

Monday - Friday, All year round

Salary up to £25,282.40 per annum depending on qualifications and experience.

Located in the heart of New Haw village, Cherrybrook Nursery is just a short walk from West Byfleet train station, making it easily accessible for families. As a large nursery with 98 spaces, we offer a variety of experiences through our five individual classrooms, each designed to cater to different age groups. Our extensive facilities enhance the experiences children receive while in our care, giving them the opportunity to explore, learn, and grow. 

At Cherrybrook Nursery, we believe in providing high-quality care and education based on the ethos of active learning through purposeful play. Our team of dedicated practitioners, with a range of diverse backgrounds, works together to cater to the individual needs of every child in our care. We are committed to ensuring that every child has the best possible experience, where safety, warmth, friendliness, and, most importantly, fun are at the heart of everything we do. Our goal is to support each child’s ongoing development in a nurturing and stimulating environment.

This role is working 42.5 hours per week, various shifts patterns between the opening and closing times of the nursery 7:15am-18:30pm. This nursery is open all year round and is not a term time only role. Salary up to £25,282.40 per annum depending on qualifications and experience.

Why Join Us?

At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays 
• Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team members
• Wellbeing: Confidential employee assistance helpline available 
• Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth

*All perks are pro-rota for part time staff and subject to successful completion of probationary period. These perks may be subject to further conditions and can be withdrawn or reviewed at the discretion of the company

As Nursery Assistant, you will:

• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times
• Understand the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS and staff:child ratios
• Provide engaging and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development
• Facilitate a strong key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and cover all children daily when colleagues are absent
• Observe and support children’s development, update the EyLog system and children’s learning journals with accuracy and relevance, and seek guidance from colleagues or Room Leader if in doubt
• Provide the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.

Cherrybrook is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.