Assistant Childcare Practitioner | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 18 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £30,074 pa inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, W6 8RF |
| Company: | IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7625572/290-CR-982 |
Summary
The Trust provides an on-site Day Nursery, which is mainly used by our staff; however, the service is also available to the general public. The Charing Cross Day Nursery offers childcare places to children from the ages of 6 months to 5 years old.
Crucial to our success is the role of our Childcare Practitioners, providing high quality childcare, caring for children who attend the Nursery.
Working in a nursery involves being part of a team and caring for babies and children up to the age of five. The Assistant Childcare Practitioners duties will be to provide safe, temporary supervision and care of young children. Providing a safe and stimulating environment for the children doing a variety of creative activities, taking them out on trips and generally making sure they are having fun whilst they are learning.
The Trust is strongly committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its staff, patients and children. Due to the role, the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure and also a range of other recruitment checks.
As an Assistant Childcare Practitioner, you will be required to work shift patterns between the hours of 7:30 am to 6:00 pm. Total working hours per week will be 37.5 per week. Many thanks in advance.
At this time, we are only reviewing new applications and we are unable to reconsider past applicants.
Interview Friday 12th December 2025
1. To provide a high standard of Physical, Emotional, Social and Intellectual care for children placed in the setting.
2. To give support to the Childcare Practitoner within the setting
3. To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.
4. To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Nov 2025