Nursery Practitioner

We are recruiting for a Nursery Practitioner who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff., The successful post holder will be expected to provide continuity of care for the groups of children within the Trust's on-site day nursery ensuring that each child is provided with a safe, secure, emotionally, and physically stimulating environment and deliver an ambitious curriculum within the early Years Foundation Stage Framework.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust., To be able to work within a child's day nursery ensuring that each child is provided with a safe and secure, emotionally and physically stimulating environment and programme of activities in which to develop
To plan and provide as a group a wide range of activities and for a group of children, which covers all aspects of the EYFS and individual child development
To be fully responsible for the children in your care, providing a consistently safe and secure and stimulating environment
To work as part of a team with other staff members to ensure children receive the highest standards of care
Ensure that accidents/individual problems with children, staff or parents are brought to the managers attention
Maintain a high standard of cleanliness within the nursery, promoting personal hygiene standard through monitoring toilet procedures as well as maintaining cleanliness in the playroom and surrounding areas.
Assist in preparation and serving of meals and supervising meal times
Attending regular training sessions
Attending termly staff training and development days.
Assist in out of hours events such as fete's, open evenings
Nursery Practitioners must at all times respect the principle of confidentiality of information gained through their work.
To be a key worker to a group of children supporting them through their learning and development journey.
To have a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and follow local policies and procedures for raising concerns.