Employer: Patchwork 2 to 5 Nursery
Position: Childcare Support Worker
Salary: £12.21 per hour
Job Type: Part-time, Temporary
Work location: Dunoon, Scotland
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary:
To work as an effective member of Patchwork Nursery Team, assisting in the delivery of a flexible, high quality early education and care centred service that meets the needs of young children and their families.
Job Description: Main Outcomes required
1. Planning:
Support the Nursery team to ensure that each childs’ needs are met in relation to health and wellbeing, literacy, numeracy and all other relevant areas.
2. Service delivery:
Assist the Nursery Manager to ensure that a high quality service is delivered to service users by ensuring that all agreed plans are implemented efficiently and effectively. In particular:
- To provide support to children within the setting
- To assist Practitioners to provide help with meeting education, care and welfare needs
- To undertake lunchtime supervision
- To keep up-to-date with early years initiatives and developments and to participate in continuing professional development in line with Nursery and SSSC policy and procedures.
3.
Quality Assurance:
Support the Nursery Manager to ensure that appropriate quality, performance and bench marking criteria are developed, and applied as a means of managing and monitoring the team’s performance.
4.
Health & Safety:
All employees must follow Patchwork 2 to 5 Nursery’s Health and Safety policies, standards, systems and procedures and must follow any additional Health and Safety instructions required by the Nursery Manager.
5.
Other duties & responsibilities:
Undertake other duties appropriate to this role, and as required by the Nursery Manager or Nursery Management Committee to ensure appropriate outcomes are achieved.
Person Specification: Essential Criteria
Education and / or professional qualifications
A minimum of 3 Standard Grades (Level 1, 2 or 3) or equivalent qualifications or experience
Hold or working towards SVQ L2 in Early Learning and Childcare
Experience
Experience of working in an Early Learning and Childcare under 5’s setting
Specific job-related knowledge
Basic knowledge of child development
Any additional job-related requirements
PVG membership – required to gain this in relation to working with children.
Personal Qualities (Competencies) that are essential at recruitment stage:
Ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
Effective communication skills, written and verbal.
Enthusiastic and motivated.
Caring and friendly nature
Work effectively as part of a team
Effective organisational skills
Effective problem solving skills
Person Specification: Desirable
Education and / or professional qualifications
Additional relevant qualification.
Experience
Experience of working within an ELC setting
Experience of outdoor learning environments
Experience of ongoing self-evaluation and continuous improvement of the service
Specific job-related knowledge
Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) – SHANARRI
Expected hours: 15 per week
Benefits:
- Company pension
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
APPLICATION PROCESS
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