Job Description

Monday to Friday 11.00am - 3.30pm

About Us

We are a welcoming, child-centred forestry/forest nursery committed to providing high-quality early education and care through a strong connection with nature and the outdoors.

The Treehouse Club has an exciting opportunity for a Nursery Lunch Cover (Qualified or unqualified) for our Nursery supporting the Room Leader and Manager, working directly with the children while maintaining high standards of safeguarding, education, learning care and professional practice. Ensuring compliance with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), Ofsted requirements and the nursery's policies and procedures.

We can offer you

· Childcare discount

· Free Parking

· Birthday off on us!

· Free Uniform

· Employee Assistance Programme

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

Passionate about working with young children, and an inspirational role model for children .
Enthusiastic about forestry, outdoor learning and nature-based education.
Knowledgeable about the EYFS and safeguarding requirements, training can be given.
Able to communicate effectively with all staff in the Nursery.
Organised, reliable and able to work effectively under pressure.
Committed to inclusion and supporting children with additional needs.
Passionate about providing children with high-quality experiences and opportunities to learn through play and exploration.
Comfortable working outdoors in all appropriate weather conditions.
Positive, proactive and willing to get involved in all aspects of nursery life.
Safer Recruitment

· The Treehouse Forestry Nursery and Out of School Club applies safer recruitment policies to ensure that all of our staff are suitable to work with children and young people. We advise you in advance that two people will be involved in your recruitment process. Both people will partake in your interview and each person will individually review all applications and paperwork to ensure that you are suitable for the role.

· Part of our safer recruitment procedure includes obtaining references for you. One of these references must be your latest employer. If you are unable to obtain a reference before the interview from your current employer then you must obtain references from the employer before that as well as one other reference.

· References from former employers are preferable over any other referee. Please note that we will need to obtain a reference from your latest employer before completing our processes for you to commence working for us.

· We are at liberty to advise you that if there are gaps in your employment history or any other information that gives us cause for concern, we will contact your former employers to obtain further information and satisfy any concerns that we have.

Eligibility to work within the UK

· We will need to obtain evidence from you to confirm that you are eligible to work within the UK. We confirm that this information, as well as all personal information, will be held in our Staff Central Record.

We do not offer sponsorship to overseas workers.