Role – Deputy Team Leader, Preschool room

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £13.00 per hour

Pay will be reviewed in March/April

Expected hours: 40 per week

Desired: Level 2 or higher relevant early years qualification

Benefits:

•         Childcare

•         Company pension

•         Discounted or free food

•         Employee discount

•         Sick pay

Schedule:

•         8 hour shift

•         Day shift

•         Monday to Friday

•         No weekends

Job description:

•         Being an excellent role model to the other staff in your room

•         Help manage staff effectively, working alongside Team Leader and management to ensure ratios are maintained throughout the setting.

•         Confidence to delegate and address issues that may arise within the team

•         Understanding all policies and procedures of the nursery and being able to answer relevant questions from parents/carers/outside agencies i.e. Ofsted

•         Ensure that all policies and procedures are being followed by yourself, and all staff

•         Ensuring new decisions are taken on board and maintained in the room at all times

•         Ensuring all staff in the room have all relevant information

•         Ensuring that all relevant handovers happen between rooms and pegs are completed before children start.

•         Over viewing planning and record keeping of all the staff in room

•         Ensuring routines are being followed and run smoothly

•         Ensure all staff are aware of allergies/dietaries for each day and that these are updated accordingly

•         Overseeing the professionalism of all staff/students in the setting

•         Working with students and their supervisor, passing on your knowledge to them, practically and theoretically.

•         Ensuring the students allocated to your room are aware of and comply with the policies and procedures of the nursery

•         To provide a wide and varied range of activities for the children individually and as a group appropriate to their needs and developmental stage.

•         Laying out and setting up the nursery and storing away equipment appropriately.

•         To encourage the children with their language development and positive verbal response.

•         To organise creative activities and displays for the walls and help display the children’s work.

•         Maintain a clean and tidy nursery and garden area and ensure books, toys and equipment are clean and in good order.

•         Encourage and supervise clearing and tidy up time

•         Provide a high standard of health and hygiene

•         Change nappies and encourage children with toilet training and personal hygiene

•         Help children at meal times and then tidy and clear away afterwards

•         Act as a key person for a group of children and allocate key children to the rest of the team, ensuring attachment theories are respected.

•         Have a sound knowledge of all the children in your base room and an excellent knowledge of your key children.

•         Work in partnership with parents, consulting and sharing information with them about the needs and progress of their children

•         Filling in all the appropriate record keeping for your key child and ensure they are continually up to date. Ensuring the Famly app and children’s profiles are kept up to date by all the staff within your team

•         Attend and participate in staff meetings/parents evenings

•         To undertake training and give appropriate feedback to the staff team and implement this in your work

•         To exercise a general duty of care for work colleagues and to be responsible for ensuring a safe working environment for all employees/students under your supervision

•         Providing feedback to staff about performance and making decisions as to whether verbal warnings need to be issued.

•         Ensuring your team are aware of the number of children they are caring for and in total within the room each day.

•         Ensuring children are signed in and out of the building correctly.

•         Prepping children for school readiness and ensuring transitions are smooth, liaising with schools and teachers where applicable.

•         Such other minor and/or non-recurring duties, appropriate to the post, as may be directed by the management team