Nursery Practitioner with Holiday Club and After School Manager Duties

Banstead Preparatory School is a co-educational prep school and nursery, educating around 250 girls and boys aged 2-11. Set on the outskirts of the village of Banstead, Surrey, there are good transport links to London and the South East. 

Our state-of-the-art facilities enable us to offer the broadest range of opportunities as part of an engaging, innovative and exciting curriculum, helping us to set the highest possible ambition for every child, and get the best from everyone.

Education with character is the ethos that sits at the very heart of our school and forms the core of what we believe. There’s more to a good education than learning – we work to develop our children’s characters, build their tenacity, foster courage and above all, inspire them to achieve excellence.

Banstead Prep isn’t a feeder for any particular senior school, we work to help parents identify aspirational but realistic school choices. We prepare the children through broad curriculum teaching within the normal school timetable to ensure every child leaves us for their senior school of choice feeling valued, prepared, confident and ready to thrive.

The Role

We are looking to recruit a Nursery Practitioner, along with Holiday Club duties and Afterschool club Manager duties. Full details are specified below.

Closing date: 23 September 2022

Interviews: w/c 19/26 September 2022

Start date: October 2022 - exact date to be confirmed

The role will be 35 weeks (to include a week of INSETs) and eight weeks working as a Mini Zone Camp Leader during holidays

Nursery Practitioner (term time only and a week of INSET)

8am-4pm: Monday to Wednesday 

8am-3pm: Thursday and Friday

30 minute unpaid break each day

Actual Salary: £14,377 per annum (£10.10 per hour)

Afterschool Club Manager (term time only)

4pm-6pm: Wednesday

3pm-6pm: Thursday and Friday

£11.10 per hour

Mini Zone Camp Leader - eight weeks during holidays (1 week October half term, 1 week at Christmas, 1 week Easter, 5 weeks summer)

8am-5.30pm: Monday to Thursday

8am-4pm: Friday

30 minute unpaid break each day

Salary to be paid a month in arrears after each holiday club pro-rata'd 

The full Job description and Person Specification is attached.

Applicants must be able:

• To promote the philosophy of ‘learning through play’.
• To work within the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum framework.
• To plan prepare and participate in a range of activities that promote each child’s physical, intellectual and emotional needs to enable each child to reach their full potential.
• To participate in creating a child’s learning journey.
• To implement activities which encourage linguistic and social interaction between the children and other adults.
• To communicate with parents/carers about the day to day needs of the children by fostering parental involvement and encouraging positive parenting skills.
• To help children acquire self-help skills including dressing, feeding, toilet training and an awareness of personal hygiene.
• To attend staff and department meetings as appropriate.
• To help ensure that the nursery meets safety and hygiene requirements and to report any issues to a senior member of staff.
• To be aware of and comply with the school to Child Protection Policy, Confidentiality Procedures and other Nursery Policies.
• To keep up-to-date with the developments in childcare and parent education through regular training as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Full and relevant minimum Level 3 Early Years Educator/Child Care related Qualification         
• GCSEs A-C in English Language and Maths (or equivalent)
• Paediatric First Aid Qualification

Experience

• Experience or knowledge of working in a school environment
• Experience of supporting working with young children

Skills

• Good oral and written English
• Administrative competence
• Good listening skills
• Ability to communicate confidently and professionally with pupils, staff, parents
• Confident use of ICT
• Excellent organisational skills

Personal Qualities

• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• High levels of personal and professional integrity
• High degrees of self-confidence, personal energy and dynamism
• Personal warmth, good rapport with pupils, colleagues and parents
• Appropriate levels of personal presentation
• The ability to see the best in everything
• Team player
• Flexibility    

You must also have evidence of the right to work in the UK (i.e. Passport or working visa). Applications will be assessed in order of receipt and candidates may be interviewed before the closing date. The School reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made so please apply without delay.

Banstead Preparatory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check as well as other relevant pre-employment checks including satisfactory references and medical clearance.

United Learning

We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.