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Job Description - Bank Preschool Assistant
Purpose of Post
1 To work as part of the pre-school team to provide safe, high quality education and care for young children
2 To work under the direction of the Pre-School Leader and to give support to other personnel within the Setting
3 To assist with the lunch time routine
4 To help children to eat their lunch, opening food and assisting with eating.
5 To ensure the room is left clean and tidy for the afternoon session.
6 To cover other staff members taking their lunch break.
Key Areas
Work with Children;
Team Work;
Taking Initiative
Hours of Work
Monday to Friday 11:45 - 1:15
Bank Work - so availability on an ad-hoc basis and at short notice
Pay
£12.77 per hour
Responsible to
Pre-School room Leader and Pre-school Management team
Duties and Responsibilities
1. To assist with the planning of the curriculum by providing safe, creative and appropriate educational opportunities for all children within an inclusive environment, preparing activities, organising programmes and arranging equipment
2. To ensure that activities are carried out in a safe and responsible manner in accordance with statutory responsibilities, and to advise the pre-school leader of any concerns over children, equipment etc.
3. To follow all pre-school policies, including those regarding safeguarding and confidentiality
4. To ensure that the pre-school offers the highest standards of physical and emotional care, health and safety, and personal and food hygiene at all times
5. Working creatively with children within the EY framework
6. Daily interaction with children to provide range of stimulating activities to promote all areas of learning
7. Ensuring all children have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
8. Working with range of people including staff, visiting professionals and agencies, parents, children and families, and visitors and student placements
9. Work requires bending, kneeling and crouching for periods of time and may also involve lifting or holding children, and changing nappies/toileting duties.
10. Significant elements of inside and outside work, including outdoor learning.
11. Understanding and being able to implement inclusive practices into the setting, to ensure all children have the opportunity to learn, interact and fulfil their potential
12. Working with the room leader to establish an appropriate safe and secure learning environment.
13. Promoting positive values, attitudes and good child behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encouraging children to take responsibility for their own behaviour
14. Having a positive approach to continuous professional development
15. To actively promote and support the safeguarding of children and young people in the workplace, ensuring Setting policies and procedures are observed at all times.
Person Specification:
Essential
Desirable
Skills, aptitude, knowledge and experience
Ability to create a child accessible and friendly learning environment.
Ability to work independently using own initiative.
Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
Ability to relate well to children and adults including other professionals/carers/
parents
Ability to demonstrate and promote good practice in line with the ethos of the pre-school both indoors and out doors.
Ability to manage multiple tasks, whilst ensuring children, colleagues, parents and carers are respected and listened to.
Fluent English speaker
Effectively communicate with adults and children
Good written, verbal and non verbal communication
Experience of having kept written records of children's achievements including observations
Proven experience of working with children in an early learning environment, either on placement or in paid employment
Experience of working as part of a team
Ability to reflect on learning and care needs and use this knowledge to impact on children's outcomes
Experience of working with other agencies and professionals
Ability to interact with children and support their involvement in physical activities and outdoor play
Consistent approach with children and parents
Ability to promote and market the service to the wider community
Personal qualities
Proactive and positive team player, able to work constructively as part of a team to understand pre-school roles and responsibilities and own position within these.
Enthusiasm for learning and working with children
Caring, friendly, approachable, open, inclusive, welcoming, and personable
Able to maintain confidentiality at all times
Reflective approach and commitment to personal development
Able to provide consistently high levels of quality care and education opportunities to all children, in pressured and sometimes challenging environments
Qualifications
Willingness to participate in other development and training opportunities
Relevant Level 3 qualification eg. Level 3 Certificate for the Children & Young People's Workforce, NVQ Level 3 in Children's Care, Learning and Development (CCLD) or equivalent qualifications
Completion of Safeguarding Awareness course (Group 2)
Training in the relevant strategies e.g. parenting and/or in particular learning areas, e.g. quality improvement, observation and record keeping, Communication, Language and Literacy, ICT, maths, etc.
Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation
Requirement to participate in training/development as and when identified by line manager as essential for performance of the post.
Understanding of principles of child development and learning processes and in particular barriers to learning
Health & Safety certificate
First Aid certificate
This post requires a DBS check as there may be periods of unsupervised access to children. An Enhanced DBS and satisfactory references would be obtained prior to commencement of employment.
Order 1975
The post for which you are applying involves contact with children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all subsequent amendments (England & Wales). For these positions you are not entitled to withhold information about police cautions, 'blind-overs' or any criminal convictions that include any that would otherwise be considered as 'spent' under the Act.
The amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found at the Disclosure and Barring Service Website.
Kidz OK Ltd is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Please be aware that and enhanced DBS Check will be required for any position with access to these individuals or sensitive information.