Playleader/ Level 3 / Early Years Educator
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £13.80 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Company pension |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Uplyme, Lyme Regis |
| Company: | Uplyme Preschool CIO |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Purpose of Post
• To assume overall responsibility for setting a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in the preschool.
• To lead and promote excellent practice at all times, across all areas, including the implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learning and development requirements and guiding principles.
• To support and mentor other staff members in the skills and behaviours that safeguard and promote the best outcomes for all children.
• To work with the Manager to ensure the quality of every aspect of the service the preschool offers is continually reviewed and improved.
Key Areas
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of all aspects of the EYFS
• Effective curriculum planning and practice
• Detailed knowledge of safeguarding and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) good practice and procedures
• Developing excellent relationships with children
• Communicating and working in partnership with families and carers
• Staff management to ensure excellent teamwork and collaboration
• Continued professional development of yourself and other staff members
Responsible To
Preschool Manager and the Management Committee
Hours of Work
Monday 8.00am until 4pm, Tuesday and Friday 8.00am until 2pm, Wednesday 8.00am until 1.30pm.
Duties and Responsibilities
• To take responsibility for drawing up long term, medium term and sessional curriculum plans which consider the learning and development requirements and guiding principles of the EYFS. To continually monitor, review and improve the effectiveness of the pre-school curriculum.
• To be responsible for providing a high quality of teaching and learning, ensuring that all staff have a detailed knowledge of the requirements of the EYFS, have high expectations of each child and offer high quality education and support to all children to ensure they can achieve their full potential.
• Establish and maintain a safe, welcoming, purposeful, stimulating and encouraging environment where children feel confident and secure and can develop and learn.
• To draw up and communicate to all staff the daily programme of pre-school activities and events, suitable for children’s ages, interests, and abilities, taking account of diversity and promoting equality and inclusion.
• Actively support the development of children’s language and communication skills.
• Promote positive behaviour, self-control and independence through effective behaviour management strategies and developing children’s social, emotional and behavioural skills.
• Encourage all staff members to talk to children, giving constructive and sensitive feedback to help them understand what they have achieved and think about what they need to do next.
• Encourage a culture of listening to children, paying attention to what they say and valuing and respecting their views.
• To be responsible for implementing systems of observation and record keeping so that children's progress and achievements are effectively and regularly assessed and to use this information to inform, plan and improve practice and provision.
• To organise the key person system and to effectively supervise staff on a daily basis; to be responsible for monitoring the quality of teaching.
• To liaise closely with parents/carers to establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships. Communicate sensitively and effectively with them informing them about the pre-school and its curriculum, exchanging information about children's progress and encouraging parents' involvement.
• To be responsible for safeguarding in the pre-school and to ensure that any child protection concerns are acted upon immediately and appropriately. Ensure all staff members can recognise when a child is in danger or at risk of harm and know how to act to protect them.
• To be responsible for the management of all setting staff. Supervising and supporting them in their recruitment, induction, training, development, supervision, performance management as well as their daily duties.
• Establish and maintain a culture of collaborative and cooperative working between all staff members to ensure the team works as effectively as possible.
• Encourage all members of staff to develop and use skills in literacy, numeracy, information and communication technology to support their work with children and wider professional activities.
• Adopt a creative and innovative approach towards practice, by being open to opportunities for improvements, and encouraging staff to make suggestions.
• To ensure that the pre-school is a safe environment for children, staff and others; that equipment is safe, standards of hygiene are high, health and safety procedures are implemented at all times and fire drills are regularly practiced.
• To liaise with the pre-school Manager, management committee, Ofsted and other professionals as necessary and ensure that all legal and statutory requirements are implemented and to provide reports as required.
• To contribute to and implement all pre-school policies and procedures, especially those on safeguarding, equal opportunities and confidentiality. Promote children’s rights, equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice in all aspects of the setting and ensure a collective responsibility for their implementation amongst all staff.
• To attend training and meetings as required to ensure your continual personal and professional development.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed by the pre-school Manager or chair of the management committee, in accordance with the pre-school business plan/objectives.
NB: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants must be prepared to disclose any convictions they may have and any orders which have been made against them.
• To assume overall responsibility for setting a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in the preschool.
• To lead and promote excellent practice at all times, across all areas, including the implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learning and development requirements and guiding principles.
• To support and mentor other staff members in the skills and behaviours that safeguard and promote the best outcomes for all children.
• To work with the Manager to ensure the quality of every aspect of the service the preschool offers is continually reviewed and improved.
Key Areas
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of all aspects of the EYFS
• Effective curriculum planning and practice
• Detailed knowledge of safeguarding and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) good practice and procedures
• Developing excellent relationships with children
• Communicating and working in partnership with families and carers
• Staff management to ensure excellent teamwork and collaboration
• Continued professional development of yourself and other staff members
Responsible To
Preschool Manager and the Management Committee
Hours of Work
Monday 8.00am until 4pm, Tuesday and Friday 8.00am until 2pm, Wednesday 8.00am until 1.30pm.
Duties and Responsibilities
• To take responsibility for drawing up long term, medium term and sessional curriculum plans which consider the learning and development requirements and guiding principles of the EYFS. To continually monitor, review and improve the effectiveness of the pre-school curriculum.
• To be responsible for providing a high quality of teaching and learning, ensuring that all staff have a detailed knowledge of the requirements of the EYFS, have high expectations of each child and offer high quality education and support to all children to ensure they can achieve their full potential.
• Establish and maintain a safe, welcoming, purposeful, stimulating and encouraging environment where children feel confident and secure and can develop and learn.
• To draw up and communicate to all staff the daily programme of pre-school activities and events, suitable for children’s ages, interests, and abilities, taking account of diversity and promoting equality and inclusion.
• Actively support the development of children’s language and communication skills.
• Promote positive behaviour, self-control and independence through effective behaviour management strategies and developing children’s social, emotional and behavioural skills.
• Encourage all staff members to talk to children, giving constructive and sensitive feedback to help them understand what they have achieved and think about what they need to do next.
• Encourage a culture of listening to children, paying attention to what they say and valuing and respecting their views.
• To be responsible for implementing systems of observation and record keeping so that children's progress and achievements are effectively and regularly assessed and to use this information to inform, plan and improve practice and provision.
• To organise the key person system and to effectively supervise staff on a daily basis; to be responsible for monitoring the quality of teaching.
• To liaise closely with parents/carers to establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships. Communicate sensitively and effectively with them informing them about the pre-school and its curriculum, exchanging information about children's progress and encouraging parents' involvement.
• To be responsible for safeguarding in the pre-school and to ensure that any child protection concerns are acted upon immediately and appropriately. Ensure all staff members can recognise when a child is in danger or at risk of harm and know how to act to protect them.
• To be responsible for the management of all setting staff. Supervising and supporting them in their recruitment, induction, training, development, supervision, performance management as well as their daily duties.
• Establish and maintain a culture of collaborative and cooperative working between all staff members to ensure the team works as effectively as possible.
• Encourage all members of staff to develop and use skills in literacy, numeracy, information and communication technology to support their work with children and wider professional activities.
• Adopt a creative and innovative approach towards practice, by being open to opportunities for improvements, and encouraging staff to make suggestions.
• To ensure that the pre-school is a safe environment for children, staff and others; that equipment is safe, standards of hygiene are high, health and safety procedures are implemented at all times and fire drills are regularly practiced.
• To liaise with the pre-school Manager, management committee, Ofsted and other professionals as necessary and ensure that all legal and statutory requirements are implemented and to provide reports as required.
• To contribute to and implement all pre-school policies and procedures, especially those on safeguarding, equal opportunities and confidentiality. Promote children’s rights, equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice in all aspects of the setting and ensure a collective responsibility for their implementation amongst all staff.
• To attend training and meetings as required to ensure your continual personal and professional development.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed by the pre-school Manager or chair of the management committee, in accordance with the pre-school business plan/objectives.
NB: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants must be prepared to disclose any convictions they may have and any orders which have been made against them.