Nursery Assistant – Level 2

Happy Days Nursery & Preschool Cheswick Village, Stoke Gifford is seeking a level 2 qualified Nursery Assistant to join our OUTSTANDING Nursery!

As Nursery Assistant, Level 2 you will play a vital role in helping us inspire the future for our children, by offering them the very best care and education using our unique curriculum “Where Children Shine”

Your roles and responsibilities as Level 2 Qualified Nursery Assistant would include –

Performance

• Embodying our SHINE values (Support, Honesty, Inspiration, Nurturing and Empowerment) in everything you do
• Supporting the effective running on the nursery by being organised, and have the ability to plan and prioritise your work
• Being positive, confident and honest
• Having great initiative and a “can do” attitude
• Knowing and upholding our policies, procedures and established working practices

Outstanding Childcare

• Being a “key person” for a group of children, ensuring that their care and development needs are being met at all times
• Using our unique “Where Children Shine” curriculum to observe, plan and assess children’s learning opportunities
• Understanding and implementing safeguarding, health and safety and welfare requirement policies and practices

Working with Others

• Be a dedicated team player, and valuing the experience and skills of your colleagues
• Continually striving to work together to deliver the very best care and education for the children
• Supporting colleagues with empathy and care

We can inspire YOUR future by offering

• Ongoing training, development and career progression opportunities
• A supportive and nurturing management structure, who take pride in our team and our people
• Family friendly working – with flexible working patterns and 50% childcare discount
• Employee Assistances Programmes to support colleagues
• Hourly rate between £11.58 and £11.78 per hour

Our teams, whether in our nurseries or our support centre SHINE, they ensure we are delivering outstanding childcare to every child in our settings every day, this helps to make Happy Days a great place to work. By ensuring we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues, who are representative of the communities within which our nurseries sits gives us the best opportunity to continue to deliver outstanding childcare

“Happy Days Nurseries are committed to the safety and wellbeing of the children in our care, as such the successful post holder will be required to undergo a robust vetting process, including an enhanced DBS Check and Reference History Checks”.