You will be working with a dedicated team in a caring, family-friendly, characterful and stimulating environment which is inviting to children, parents and staff.

Purpose of the role:

• Be responsible, under the overall direction and management of the Nursery Manager, for the implementation of programmes of learning and developmental work with children in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage.
• Develop and maintain excellent links with parents, carers and other agencies.
• Be alert to and act on concerns regarding any children’s safety, health and well-being, acting in accordance with IPA’s safeguarding procedures and child protection legislation.
• Take a lead role in one or more of the following areas:

1.  Working with the Nursery Manager on the standard of care and education in a specified room.
2.  Working with the Nursery Manager on an area of practice within the centre and /or its catchment area.
3.  Working with the Nursery Manager on the extended day or holiday provision. d) Act as key practitioner for specific children. e) Undertake other development projects as requested.

• Provide a stimulating environment, which ensures educational, social, emotional and physical developmental opportunities for children in groups.
• Provide appropriate, planned, stimulating and inclusive educational and developmental opportunities for children with special educational and other needs, as required, within an integrated programme for the centre as a whole.
• Provide support to a defined group of individual children as a key practitioner providing each child with continuity of care throughout the child’s time at the centre, in partnership with their parent/carers, and leading on written observations and records about those children’s progress and welfare and communicating to senior staff on duty and to parents as required.
• Maintain high professional standards and levels of care and hygiene, for both children and resources.
• Observe and be involved with the children in their activities, stimulating, encouraging and extending these activities.
• Be aware of issues relating to children with special educational needs including physical disability, behavioural and learning difficulties. To help to ensure an atmosphere in which children with special educational needs are valued and respected and working positively with those who display discriminatory attitudes and behaviour.
• Share with other members of the team responsibility for the preparation of the rooms and the outside area, checking equipment and ensuring maintenance of safe, creative and stimulating classroom environment.
• Take part in day-to-day discussions concerning immediate issues and to contribute to forward planning and assessment of nursery practice/policy by regular meetings of the nursery team. 
• Promote the children’s growth in independence and self-reliance.
• Maintain ongoing observation of all the children in the centre paying particular attention to children subject to Child Protection Procedures, including preparing the Centre’s observational reports for case conferences.

• Applicants must hold an NNEB Certificate, NVQ Level 3 - Childcare/Early Years Care, BTEC Nationals in Childhood Studies (Nursery Nursing) with suitable practice placements) OR equivalent qualification
• Demonstrable levels of numeracy and literacy equivalent to GCSE (A-C)
• Experience of working with children, preferably in a day care or education setting
• At least one year’s experience of working with under fives.

• Early Years Teacher/Qualified Teacher Status.

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• Apply by sending the application form to recruitment@islingtonplay.org.uk.