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Job overview

Woodlands Day Nursery is operated by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust to support the childcare needs of staff working at Frimley Park Hospital.

The nursery has up to 84 places consisting of 5 rooms that will cover the ages 3 months 5 years. and opens 6.45 -6.30.

The overview is to provide the following:-

•  Be responsible to the Nursery Manager for the delivery of full day care to children under 5 years, in accordance with the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage 2024.
• Be responsible to the Room Lead for ensuring the delivery of practices that support children’s progress, as outlined within the Early Years Outcomes, non-statutory guidance 2024.
• Contribute to cohesive team working practices, including key person system; identification, planning and implementation of own continued professional development (CPD); opportunities to further strengthen effective provision benefiting children and families.
• Be responsible for monitoring the Health and safety requirements in the Nursery, ensuring that processes are documented and assessed, risk assessments are completed and that the Nursery is compliant

Main duties of the job

• Using knowledge and understanding of child development theories, progressive learning and best working practices, contribute to and deliver individualised care and learning to children under five years within statutory and guiding principles described in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).2024
• To be responsible for key children’s observations, planning, assessments, to create children’s learning journey.
• To be responsible for producing formative and summative assessments of key children’s progress.
• Promote an ethos within the setting that values and celebrates diversity that enables all children and adults to make a positive contribution to nursery life.
• Contribute to practices including the key person system, that support partnership working between parents, practitioners and others in order to lay a secure foundation for children’s future learning and development.
• Liaise with Lead Practitioner and Inclusion Co-ordinator when early signs of individual needs that could lead to later difficulties have been identified. 
• To ensure the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND).
• Contribute to practices supporting individual children and families transitions into the nursery between rooms and to school or other setting.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.