Early Year Educator - Full Time

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Are you looking to be valued and part of a team that supports your ideas and experiences? Where every day you can bring new ideas and practices to your team and feel valued and respected. We offer extensive support and noncontact time to ensure you can practice to your full potential. We understand that educators are the forefront of the service and provide intensive induction training and mentorship from your first day to ensure you feel comfortable and settled in the service. Apply today and come and have a chat with us and see what we can offer. We are a one off service which allows us to focus on and support our staff in the building.

Early Day is a busy family-friendly creche We strive to offer parents and children a home-to-home environment. We have an exceptional outdoor area and outdoor classrooms and indoor. We strive for quality care and enriched relationships with both our children and parents. Management is conscious of always mentoring and supporting new staff. We enjoy passing on our skills and knowledge to new educators of the service and love to see new ideas and experiences brought to the team.

POSITION: Early Days Educator

Salary: Depends on experience/Competitive

REPORTS TO: Crèche Manager

QUALIFICATION: At least 1 year working in childcare. And must have QQI level 5 or above.

Contact – Tanya Montgomery/Jackie Lennon- Please send an updated CV with all relevant experience, qualifications and references

JOB PURPOSE

To work as part of a team to ensure quality care to the children in the service and to work alongside the educators in your room to ensure a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach.

We highly regard play-based emergent curriculum as a fundamental aspect of the role as it underpins our ethos of Early Days. Each educator is allocated 1.5 hours of non-contact time a week and undergoes monthly supervisions with management to ensure you are supported and the quality and standard expected of Early Days staff are practiced. Each room holds weekly room meetings and sets goals and delegates tasks for each member ensuring a teamwork approach. We have regular staff incentive nights and staff appreciation. We invite the parents in each term for various parents evenings to encourage partnerships with parents. We promote regular staff CPD and online workshops. We focus our staff meetings on reflective practice and a collaborative approach to supporting one another. We offer extra days off in the year at quiet times in the service to give back to our staff.

DUTIES:

General

• Ensuring compliance with Pre-School Regulations & Tulsa QRFs.
• Delivery of consistent, high-quality standards of care, working with the team and management
• Have a sound knowledge of play-based emergent curriculum and how to implement it on a daily in your practice.
• Liaise with parents and ensure relationships and communications between parents are open, friendly, constructive.
• Maintain all required records as part of our policies and procedures.
• To ensure that learning stories are practised and to record any significant development for each child and to ensure that this is reflective of the overall planning with your team.
• Have a sound knowledge and understanding of policies and procedures in the sector.
• To provide an environment that promotes fairness, respect and equality and dignity to the children.
• Be a motivated individual who is conscious that the learning environment is always changing and adapting to the children’s interests and needs.
• Identify and provide support for individual children for supports.

Other Duties

• Participate in relevant training
• Attend meetings and prepare reports
• Report any concerns to the manager and help provide solutions
• Thorough understanding of all policies and procedures in the service and ensure compliance with them in all operations
• Keep up to date with all Health and Safety requirements as stipulated by the HSW Act 2005.
• Ensure compliance with the Child Care (pre-school) regulation 2016, the Child care Act 1991 and all other relevant legislation and regulations.
• Co-operate with the Tulsa and DES pre-school inspector etc when required
• Ensure compliance with the Dept of Health and Childcare Guidelines -

Qualities and skills required for this role

• Excellent time management skills
• experience in communicating to parents, staff and children and outside agencies such as Tulsa and the DES.
• Good organisational skills
• Have a sound knowledge of the child Care Regulations, Health and Safety, First Aid and Human Resources Issues
• Be an active listener.
• Knowledge of best practises for a childcare setting
• Willing to contribute your skills and knowledge to the team
• Be a caring, trustworthy and friendly person
• Demonstrate respect to children, staff and parents alike

Please note that all roles in Early Days Crèche are flexible and therefore likely to change. This job description will be reviewed regularly and may be amended in line with changing roles or responsibilities.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to €15 - 18.5 per hour Depending on expereice and qualification

Schedule:

• 40 Hour work shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Clane, Clane, CO. Kildare: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• FETAC/QQI Level 6/7/8 (required)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: €15.00-€18.50 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Bike to work scheme
• Childcare
• Company events
• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person