Nursery Assistant

CherryField Nursery 

Long Grove Park KT19 8TF

Nursery Assistant 

Salary  £19,006 - £25,282.40 per annum 

Hours -42.5 

Are you looking for a new Nursery Assistant role? Somewhere to grow and progress? Look no further - come and join our team at our Cherryfield Nursery.

We have an Ofsted rated Outstanding and provide care for children from 3 months – 5 years with a sperate activity room and soft play room on site. We have long standing staff with the manager being with the company for 14 years. Each of our rooms has a garden which is for their age group, and we have a car park on site as well as being local to Epsom train station.

Located in the heart of Epsom, Surrey, CherryField Nursery is a dedicated day nursery and preschool that provides exceptional care and early education for children aged 3 months to 5 years. We offer a bright, welcoming space where children can learn, explore, and grow in a nurturing and stimulating environment.

At CherryField, we take pride in our high standards, and our well-trained team of staff plays a key role in providing the best start in life for each child. Our practitioners hold various childcare qualifications, and are trained in areas such as First Aid, Safeguarding, and Managing Children’s Behaviour, ensuring that every aspect of your child’s development is supported and cared for with professionalism and expertise.

As part of the Cherry Childcare Day Nursery & Pre-school group, which was founded in 1993, CherryField Nursery is committed to delivering outstanding daycare and early years education. Through our dedicated educators, ongoing training, and excellent facilities, we strive to achieve the best learning outcomes for every child.

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.

Why Join Us?

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

• Annual Leave: Starting at 20 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
• Referral Programme - Refer a friend and recieve a bonus up to £750 check terms and conditions 
• Transport Links - We have out own car park and a bus link to us. 

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

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

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.

Cherryfield Nursery 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