Nursery Assistant

Nursery: Bright Horizons Grove Lodge Day Nursery and Preschool

Salary: £21,794 - £22,171 (dependant on qualification/s and experience)

Location: Burgess Hill

We are looking for a full time, passionate Nursery Assistant to join our Bright Horizons Grove Lodge Day Nursery and Preschool.

Grove Lodge is located In Burgess Hill – Just walking distance down the road from the Nursery about 5-minute walk to the train station, and local busses drop off outside the Nursery (No: 271 & 272). Staff can access street parking close to the nursery which is free.

The local park is 15 minutes’ walk, as well as the local town where children go to explore the library to read stories and collect books in their local community.

What we can offer you

Our benefits include, but are not limited to;

• Above industry standard salary, with annual salary reviews
• Discounted childcare of 40% for first child
• Up to 33 days holiday per year, with the option to buy additional days
• Smart Health access, including 24/7 access to Virtual GP appointments, fitness programmes and mental health support
• Huge variety of discounts across high street brands, utilities, and days out
• Financial support through early access to wages, low interest debt consolidation loans and more
• Refer a Friend Bonus, including New York Trip for 2 prize draw entry
• Access to a wide selection of training programmes, supporting your individual career path, with career development opportunities across our network of nurseries
• Employee Appreciation through our quarterly recognition weeks and annual Awards of Excellence gala’s
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working

Why Bright Horizons?

We care for over 25,000 children across the UK, across our portfolio of over 300 nurseries, 98% of which are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. We’ve been voted Great Place to Work for the last 17 consecutive years, as well achieving Great Place for Wellbeing and Great Place for Women.

Since 2005, we have supported the lives of thousands of children through our Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, supporting families and children in crisis – something we could not achieve without our Bright Horizons colleagues ongoing volunteering and fundraising.

What you’ll be doing

• Working as part of a nursey team looking after babies and children up to the age of 5.
• Having daily adventures with our children through interactive play, activities, reading and helping them with their curious minds through the learning curriculum
• Communicating with parents daily on their child’s activities
• Provide a caring and supporting environment where the children feel safe and looked after
• Listening to the children’s needs and responding in the right way
• Creating play and learning opportunities that support the children’s learning

• Support Nursery Nurse colleagues encouraging their development towards key milestones
• Promote and ensure child welfare, protection, health and safety and safeguarding procedures and policies are followed at all times

What we’re looking for

• Previous experience working with children (Nursery Bank Staff, Nursery Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Nursery Practitioner, Early Years Educator, Nanny, Childminder or similar)
• Passion for making learning fun and engaging for each child
• Ability to build trust and strong working relationships with both colleagues and parents
• Ability to use a variety of techniques to clearly and successfully communicate with both children and adults
• Sound understanding of child protection and the safeguarding of children

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

We look forward to receiving your application!

If you experience any problems, please email europe.recruitment@brighthorizons.com and we will be happy to help.

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application that you disclose any information requested in respect of applicable convictions and cautions (including, as applicable any reprimands or final warnings). This post may be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, in which case applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act unless the conviction or caution is “protected” as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). Any such ‘protected’ conviction or caution is not subject to disclosure to employers, and cannot be taken into account. All guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found in the DBS filtering collection, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-filtering-guidance . The fact that a pending charge, conviction, caution, reprimand or final warning has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this role but any failure to disclose any such information will result in dismissal or disciplinary action.