Nursery Practitioner - Level 2

The Kentish Town Day Nursery & Pre-School

Early Years Practitioner -Toddler room 

Salary -From £24,960 Per Annum 

40 hours a week - you choose 4 days 40 hours or the usual 5 days 40 hours or 4 days 36 hours.

At Kentish Town Day Nursery & Preschool, we offer a unique environment where children aged 3 months to 5 years can thrive. Our nursery fosters a strong sense of belonging, with a family feel and close family bonds among the team, children, and parents. Our team members experience this sense of belonging firsthand, as many of them bring their own children to the nursery, which strengthens our community even more.

Located in the heart of Camden Town, we are looking for a passionate and qualified Level 2 Early Years Practitioner to join our dynamic team. If you love childcare and want to make a positive impact, we’d love to hear from you!

we provide inspiring learning experiences indoors and outdoors, including a lovely garden for safe exploration. We actively involve parents with a cooking club for sharing recipes and a lending library for families to enjoy books at home.

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
• Health & Wellbeing: Confidential employee assistance helpline available 
• Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
• Transport Links -the nursery is situated on Ryland Road, just off Prince of Wales Road, with excellent transport links. It's a short walk from Kentish Town West (overground), Kentish Town, and Chalk Farm (underground) stations, providing easy access to the Northern Line.
• Referral Programme- Refer a friend and receive a bonus up to £750 check terms and conditions.
• Company Pension

As an Early Years 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 an Early Years Practitioner, you will need:

• Full and relevant Level 2 childcare qualification - essential
• Fluent in written and spoken English - essential
• Over 1 year’s experience of working in Early Years - desirable
• 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 Kentish Town 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.