Early Years Practitioner

We're on a mission to give our colleagues an amazing work/life balance 

At OFG we are trialling the 4 day working week, Syon Nursery will be rolling this out once we have gone through our exciting period of growth and are fully staffed - there has never been a more exciting time to join us. 

Are you looking for a rewarding career in Early Years? Syon Nursery part of Options Autism is looking for an EYFS Qualified Early Years Practitioner!

Syon Nursery is a brand-new nursery specialising in providing both care and education for pupils with neurodevelopmental diversity and will be closely support by our established regional clinical and wellbeing team. The Early Years facilities contains three separate rooms which holds a maximum of 15 pupils per room. Due to being a specialist nursery, staff ratios are matched to the pupil's needs. 

Syon Nursery is based in Isleworth, London.

Job role:         Early Years Practitioner

Location:       Isleworth, London

Hours:            40 hours per week (Shift Patterns of 7.30am-3.30pm &10am-6pm, Monday to Friday)

Contract:        Permanent; 52 wks per year

Salary:            Up to £26,000 per annum

The opportunity

Enjoy a rewarding education career and have a real impact on pupils and young people’s lives. Join an amazing team creating supportive, nurturing environments where our pupils achieve far more than they ever expected.

As a EYFS Qualified Early Years Practitioner, you will connect directly with the brilliant pupils and young people we care for, helping to make sure they get the very best from their education. Individually they may have a diagnosis of SEN or in the process of being assessed for identified areas of SEN. They have so much potential, and they will rely on you to guide their learning journeys bespoke to them.

You will help prepare learning materials and run classroom activities, with plenty of hands-on experience and some supervision too. You will take responsibility for their emotional and physical needs, supporting them to develop as individuals and engage with the world.

You will be adaptable and ready to work in a variety of classroom roles, both indoors and outside according to individual need. Taking a responsive and caring approach, you may be running classroom activities, leading outdoor experiences or supervising pupils as they explore further afield.

You will face challenges and overcome them as you flourish and thrive, sharing your skills and learning from others as your career takes you as high as you always dreamed you could go.

Every day will be different, but you will have all the support you need, with lots of skills and experience to draw on along with valuable advice and guidance too.

Requirements

• Minimum of Level 2 EYFS
• Level 3 qualified with good knowledge of the EYFs (desirable)
• Must have worked in Early Years setting as a keyworker to pupils
• Must have experience of carrying out planned activities linked to pupils interest and curriculum, managing pupils learning journeys and ensuring the safety and welfare of pupils.
• Have experience of working in a team and sharing ideas.
• Have a passion for working with neurodiverse pupils.

Our schools are built on great teamwork and mutual support. If you enjoy working as part of a dedicated team, sharing knowledge, experience and learning, simply fill in our safeguarding-compliant application form and a member of our team will be in touch.

Why join Options Autism?

• Free On-Site Training - we offer training to deliver therapeutic interventions through our occupational therapists and speech and language therapists
• Development – We value all of our staff, if you are looking to develop your career we offer many opportunities whether that be within our nursery or one of our specialist schools
• Apprenticeships – We offer Apprenticeships in Level 3 and can even offer management apprenticeships when the time is right!
• If you have a child in Nursery and are concerned about the costs for securing employment, have you checked to see if you are eligible for Tax Free Childcare? - You could be entitled to get up to £500 every 3 months (up to £2000 a year) for each of your pupils to help with the costs of childcare. This goes up to £1000 every 3 months if a child is disabled (up to £4000 a year). You can check your eligibility on the gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS and social media check.

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