Job Description
Nursery: Bright Horizons Tudor House Burgess Hill Day Nursery and Preschool
Contract type: Flexible working (0 hour contract)
Salary: £9.50 - £13.20 per hour (depending on experience and qualifications)
Location: Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15
If you are creative, enthusiastic, and have a passion for teaching and developing little minds – our Bank Staff Member opportunity would be perfect for you.
Why Bright Horizons?
We care for over 10,000 children across the UK, across our portfolio of over 300 nurseries, 98% of which are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. We’re on a mission to change the future for children, families, and the people we work with, and are committed to progressive working values like flexibility, work-life balance, and wellbeing.
Purpose of Role:
- This role will be key in delivering high quality engagement with children supporting there developmental needs, whilst ensuring the highest levels of supervision is maintained.
- You must support and maintain our Keeping Everyone Safe policies and procedures and continuously demonstrate and adhere to safe working practices.
- Support the observation and assessment standards Bright Beginnings, Bright Horizons curriculum to ensure a child-centred approach.
- Working in partnership with parents to support the observation and planning process meets the needs of all children in line with the Quality Assurance Framework. Working to ensure service excellence for our current and prospective customers.
- This includes role modelling behaviour in line our HEART principles and Bright Promise to deliver exceptional care and education.
- In addition, this role will work with the room leader together with Early Childhood Specialists to drive continuous improvement and embed inspirational early years pedagogy of the highest standard and secure regulatory compliance with better than National Average inspection outcomes in the UK.
- You will support in sharing and articulating the attributes of the Bright Horizons brand, securing Bright Horizons as the provider of choice for families, corporate clients, and employees.
What you’ll be doing
- Working as part of a nursey team looking after babies and children up to the age of 5.
- Having daily adventures with our children through interactive play, activities, reading and helping them with their curious minds through the learning curriculum
- Communicating with parents daily on their child’s activities
- Provide a caring and supporting environment where the children feel safe and looked after
- Listening to the children’s needs and responding in the right way
- Creating play and learning opportunities that support the children’s learning
- Support Nursery Nurse colleagues encouraging their development towards key milestones
- Promote and ensure child welfare, protection, health and safety and safeguarding procedures and policies are followed at all times
What we can offer you
- Our benefits include, but are not limited to: £9.50 - £13.20 per hour (depending on experience and qualifications)
- Career development opportunities across our network of nurseries
- Opportunity to complete a qualification in Early Years if desired
- Amazing discounts, ranging from childcare to high-street, to utilities and days out!
- Quarterly Employee Appreciation Weeks – with treats for all the team
- External helpline with professional counsellors – supporting your wellbeing 24 hours a day.
- Access to our extensive library of training and qualifications, to support your continuous development
What we’re looking for
- Previous experience working with children (Nursery Bank Staff, Nursery Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Nursery Practitioner, Early Years Educator, Nanny, Childminder or similar)
- A level 2 or level 3 childcare qualification
- Passion for making learning fun and engaging for each child
- Ability to build trust and strong working relationships with both colleagues and parents
- Ability to use a variety of techniques to clearly and successfully communicate with both children and adults
- Sound understanding of child protection and the safeguarding of children
This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application that you disclose any information requested in respect of applicable convictions and cautions (including, as applicable any reprimands or final warnings). This post may be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, in which case applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act unless the conviction or caution is “protected” as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). Any such ‘protected’ conviction or caution is not subject to disclosure to employers, and cannot be taken into account. All guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found in the DBS filtering collection, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-filtering-guidance. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, caution, reprimand or final warning has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this role but any failure to disclose any such information will result in dismissal or disciplinary action.
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Job Type: Zero hours contract
Salary: £9.50-£13.20 per hour
Benefits:
- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Referral programme
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
School type:
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: JR-061774
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