Early Years Graduate Leader
- ECCE, Leader, room leader
- Carndonagh
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Job Description
Job Title: Early Years Room Leader
Room Leader Reports to: Early Years Assistant Manager & Manager
Essential Qualifications Needed: QQI Level 7 or above in a relevant Early Years Qualification.
Starting Hourly Rate of Pay: €14.00-15.50
Hours Per Week: 40 hours per week. Roster to be set between 7am to 7pm daily
Benefits of Working With Us:
First aid training, manual handling and child protection training provided.
Weekly paid non-contact administration time provided.
Dedicated staff rooms and fully funded continuous professional development training.
Service profile:
Little Acorns Nursery cares for children aged 12 to 24 months. Little Acorns Montessori
Playschool provides a blended and child centred Montessori preschool for the children of
Northern Inishowen in Donegal. Our service also provides breakfast club and after school
care. Our state of the art premises includes CCTV cameras in every room including sleep
rooms and gardens to promote our service’s fully transparent care of each and every child
in our service.
Little Acorns Nursery, Montessori Playschool and Acorns After School has a strong vision
of professional love being given to all children and staff in our service. To ensure a high standard of physical, personal, emotional, social and intellectual care for all
Purpose of role:
To ensure a high standard of physical, personal, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in their care
To report to Manager and Assistant Manager
To give support to other team members within the wider service
To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all children can play, learn and develop.
Key Areas:
Work with children and support children’s education and development
Lead the planning of safe, creative and appropriate learning opportunities
Ensure early years room and equipment is kept in good working order
Liaise with Parents/Carers
Ensure all activity and practices in room adheres to Aistear best practice and
company policies and procedures.
To report regularly to the Manager and Assistant Manager and keep them updated
Duties & responsibilities:
To ensure interactions with and communications about team members are professional at all times.
Formulate and operate a programme of activities that meet the individual needs and interests
of children in your area in conjunction with other team members and the Manager.
To keep records of children’s development and learning journals, share this with
parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life.
Ensure learning journals are updated with accurate and relevant information about children’s
activities and development.
Support all staff to engage in good team working
Support team members to see out any training or support they may require to fulfil their roles
and responsibilities
Ensure all record keeping (including that of your team members) is accurate and up-to date
within your designated area, including learning journals of all children in you room, accident
forms and any other forms/records required for the child’s welfare, learning and development
(this includes sleep charts & daily records sheets for younger children).
Ensure room checks outdoor checks are conducted in line with service procedures and Health
and Safety requirements
Liaise with and support parents and other family members
To be involved in out of working hours activities e.g. training, staff meetings, room meetings,
parents evening, other service events.
Undertake and organise certain domestic jobs within the room e.g. preparation of snacks,
cleansing of equipment and other such duties and responsibilities of an equivalent nature as may
be determined from time to time by the Manager.
Work alongside the manager and staff team to ensure that the service philosophy is fulfilled.
Read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role as deemed
appropriate for the needs of young children.
To ensure confidentiality of all information received by all team members in your area.
To ensure that mealtimes are a time of pleasant social sharing and that sleeptime (where
appropriate) is a calming time.
To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communications with parents/carers to
facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs
To ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children
regardless of any disabilities family backgrounds or medical history
To be aware of the high profile of Little Acorns Nursery, Montessori and Acorns After School and
ensure all staff uphold its standards at all times, both within work hours and outside.
To complete wellbeing concern forms, to ensure that the Manager is informed of any children
which they have concerns about and to implement strategies in accordance with each child IEP
where applicable.
Leadership Responsibilities
- Overall to supervise the Early Years Room by example to others and thereby promote respect
for the role.
- Proactively contribute to effective team working and foster open and honest communication
amongst all employees within the service.
- Ensure that staff follow the requirements of the early years plans, long and medium term plans
plus the requirements of the Tusla, Aistear and Siolta.
- Work in partnership with early years professionals and agencies, for example Health Visitors and
SEN services.
- Ensure staff issues and complaints are dealt with promptly and accurately.
Conclusion
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of
the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. But,
this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties,
responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: €14.00-€15.50 per hour
Qualifications Required
Essential Qualifications: QQI level 7+ in Early Childhood Care Health and Education or equivalent.
Experience Required
3 Years in an Early Years setting.
Further Information
info@mylittleacorns.com
How to Apply
Please email CV to info@mylittleacorns.com