Early Years Practitioner (XR03) in Leeds

Are you passionate about working in childcare and committed to improving outcomes for young children? At the LTHT nurseries, you will be joining a dedicated team providing childcare predominantly to Leeds NHS employees. Across 3 settings, we provide care for around 168 pre-school children Monday to Friday from 7am to 6pm all year round (excluding Bank Holidays). Each setting is unique and we celebrate the differences and experiences our employees bring to us.

The Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust is one of the largest teaching hospitals in England. By joining our Team, you will become part of the LTHT family and have access to the full benefits of an LTHT Employee including:

• 27 Holidays per year (pro rata) plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days.
• Access to family and carer friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, flexible working, carers passports.
• Dedicated wellbeing packages including team health and wellbeing champions and mental health first aiders.
• Discounted childcare.
• Access to Trust benefits such as car lease, childcare and bike to work schemes.
• Favourable terms and conditions.
• Access to ongoing training and development.
• Access to NHS employee discounts across many services in the UK including supermarkets, restaurants, holidays, travel, gyms and sports services, plus many more.

Main duties of the job:

• Contribute to updating records of achievements (i.e. profiles, observations, care plans), to support the individual needs of the children/families.
• Assist the management team (i.e. Deputy and Early Years Professional) to develop, implement and evaluate play and planning using the EYFS for the individual child and family.
• Support the nursery team and management team in the delivery of the service and the development of quality care.
• As a key carer, assist in the settling in programme to meet the child's/family's individual needs including first contact with the parent or carer.
• Assist the nursery team when communicating nursery routines and procedures with new parents.
• Observe, collate, present and record developmental milestones for children's individual profiles.
• Ensure each family receives daily positive feedback.
• Report concerns or family issues to the appropriate manager.

About us:

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest employers in Leeds, employing over 20,000 staff and providing care to 1.6 million patients every year. The Estates and Facilities team keep the Trust's sites running and manage one of the largest estate portfolios across the NHS. With over 2,300 staff, we provide a range of Estates & Facilities management services and ensure our buildings and environments are fit for purpose, clean and safe.

Whether we're cleaning wards, maintaining buildings, monitoring environmental impact, providing staff childcare, delivering hot meals to patients, or patrolling our sites, we support the delivery of patient care. Guided by our Leeds Way Values, we are committed to creating the best place to work and being the employer of choice for estates and facilities in the region.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities:

• A sound knowledge of child development for children under 5 years.
• A good knowledge of Ofsted welfare requirements.
• Experience of working in a busy day care setting.
• Experience of partnership with parents.
• Ability to create a warm, caring environment for all children.
• Experience of working with SEN children.

For a more detailed overview of the job description and personal specification please see attached.

Person Specification:

• An Ofsted recognised level 3 Qualification in childcare.
• Food safety training.
• Paediatric first aid training.

Skills and Behaviours:

• Ability to create a warm, caring environment for all children.
• Experience of working with SEN children.

Experience:

• A sound knowledge of child development for children under 5 years.
• A good knowledge of Ofsted welfare requirements.
• Experience of working in a busy day care setting.
• Experience of partnership with parents.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.