Nursery Practitioner - Level 3

The Dulwich Day Nursery & Pre-School SE6 4LP

Nursery Practitioner Level 3

Room: 6months - 2 Years 

Salary: £13.26 Per Hour

Hours - Full time and Part time hours available.

At Dulwich Day Nursery & Preschool, we provide a home-from-home environment, located on Perry Hill with great bus links from Catford & Catford Bridge Stations and just a 17-minute walk from Bellingham Station. There’s also street parking available.

Our babies enjoy music, movement, and baby yoga, while our 2-3 and preschool children explore enriching activities like Spanish, science, show and tell, and cooking to boost creativity and language skills.

As a nursery practitioner, you’ll support the children’s growth and development in this secure, caring environment. We offer ongoing training, mentorship, and one-on-one support to help you reach your career goals, whether you're aspiring to be a Room Leader or looking to enhance your skills.

At Dulwich Day Nursery & Preschool, we are a close-knit team, always supporting each other professionally and personally. We enjoy regular team-building events, both during meetings and in our own time, making our work environment positive and fulfilling.

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 
• Childcare Employee Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team member’s
• Wellbeing: Confidential employee assistance helpline available 
• Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
• Transports Links – The nursery is located on perry hill, with good bus links from Catford & Catford bridge stations, while Bellingham station is about a 17-minute walk, street parking is available on the main road outside the nursery.
• Referral Programme- Refer a friend and receive a bonus up to £750 check terms and conditions.
• Company Pension

As a Nursery Practitioner, you will:

• Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments, and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
• Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met.
• Ensure the highest levels of cleanliness and hygiene in the nursery and promote these daily in every routine.
• Undertake any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the nursery, and the safety and wellbeing of children, staff, and families.
• Maintain strictly professional relationships and report any complaints or concerns to management in accordance with company policy and procedures.
• Facilitate a strong key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and cover all children daily when colleagues are absent.
• Attend regular team meetings to ensure that you remain updated on key priorities, changes, developments and regularly review company policies and procedures.

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

As a Nursery Practitioner, you will need:

• Full and relevant Level 3 childcare qualification - essential
• Fluent in written and spoken English - essential
• Knowledge of the Statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - desirable

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.

The Dulwich Day Nursery & Pre-School 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.