Early Years Officer

Croyland Nursery School & Day Nursery, WELLINGBOROUGH, Northamptonshire, NN8 2AX

36 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  1 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,979.00 - £27,269.00 Annually (Actual)

Early Years Officer job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Early Years Officer to join the team at Croyland Nursery School and Day Nursery.

Weare a maintained nursery school and form part of a federation of fourlocal authority maintained nursery schools across Northamptonshire, with a supportive and proactive governing body. Our mission is to provide the highest quality of Early Education and care for all our children, in whom we foster a love of learning to help each child become the best they can be.

Main duties

• To ensure the standards of teaching and learning in the school are of the highest possible quality
• Tobe responsible for a large group of children in our specialistprovision unit, including planning learning, resourcing the environment,evaluating learning, and record keeping
• To work alongside Early Years Assistants (EYAs) who will support you in the planning, preparation, and delivery of learning and development
• Overseeingand providing the planning and delivery of group times and scheduledwork time, to ensure they meet the specific needs of your group ofchildren
• To analyse children's progress and attainment -identifying trends and areas of strength, as well as next steps whichare then to be implemented into provision
• To be aware of stages of development, so as to be able to make judgements about children's development
• Undertaking home visits to gather information about new starters
• Completing termly assessments on children's development, including narrative reports for parents/carers
• Organising and co-ordinating parent/carer consultation meetings to share progress and attainment
• Organising, co-ordinating, and monitoring record keeping, floor books, and displays that inform families of children's learning
• Organising and planning staff deployment of provisions and interventions
• Review and consistent implementation of key routines
• Review and maintenance of physical environments, including continuous provision and enhancement
• Daily communication with parents. If working a late shift, to inform colleagues of anything which may need to be fed back to parents/carers the following morning
• Nurturing effective and positive relationships with both the children under your care and across the provision and their parents/carers
  
• To read the staff communication and deployment board prior to work, and be ready at your work station at the designated start time
• To communicate with your team about necessary plans for provisions, changes to routines, and/or messages from parents/carers
• Working together to form a consistent approach to behaviour management
• Effectively planning and delivering parent/carer events
• Reportingany safeguarding concerns or accidents at home and/or nursery, andbeing prepared to have conversations with parents and/or professionals
• Providing information and guidance to EYAs on children's developmental needs, and to support them with any parent/carer events, i.e. parents evenings and home learning plans
• Keeping up to date with any changes to statutory or non-statutory guidance and procedures for the Early Years sector, including Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), GDPR, EYFS Statutory Framework, Development Matters, and Birth to 5
  

Benefits

• A friendly, collaborative community of children and their families, staff, and governors
• A caring and supportive working environment that prioritises wellbeing
• Opportunity for progression and CPD within the Federation and the wider maintained nursery school network
  
• Competitive salary and generous annual leave entitlement
• A generous Local Government pension scheme
• Discounted nursery sessions for your children
• Free onsite parking

"Leaders have a continual drive for further improvement. They are reflective and insightful. They take part in national and international research. They support staff to use innovative approaches in their teaching of the curriculum. Staff appreciate the opportunities leaders provide them to improve their practice." - Ofsted (2020)

Foundations for Children Nursery Schools Federation is strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. References will be sought for all short-listed candidates and a successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Croyland Nursery School & Day Nursery

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 0 to 4
• Education phase: Nursery
• School size: 113 pupils enrolled
• Age range: Not given
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Croyland Nursery School & Day Nursery website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/croyland-nursery-school-day-nursery

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