Nursery Assistant

Nursery : Lavender Lodge Montessori Nursery

Job Type : Full Time / Permanent / 40 hours per week

Salary: £19,870 - £20,384 (depending on experience and qualifications) + benefits to include high street discounts!

Location: Burgess Hill, RH15

If you are creative, enthusiastic, and have a passion for teaching and developing little minds – our Nursery Assistant opportunity would be perfect for you.

Why Bright Horizons?

We care for over 10,000 children across the UK, across our portfolio of over 300 nurseries, 98% of which are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. We’re on a mission to change the future for children, families, and the people we work with, and are committed to progressive working values like flexibility, work-life balance, and wellbeing.

Lavender Lodge Nursery is l ocated In Burgess Hill– Walking distance down the road from the Nursery about 15-minutes to local train station. Local buses are easily accessible for No: 35A & 35C.

The children have access to a Mud kitchen, outdoor water play and beautiful natural tree that provides shade in the summer months all day long.

The local park is located close to the setting where children have planned time to go and visit to explore their community.

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 can offer you

Our benefits include, but are not limited to;

• £19,870 - £20,384 (dependant on qualification/s and experience)

• Career development opportunities across our network of nurseries

• Opportunity to complete a qualification in Early Years if desired

• Amazing discounts, ranging from childcare to high-street, to utility and days out!

• Quarterly Employee Appreciation Weeks – with treats for all the team

• External helpline with professional counsellors – supporting your wellbeing 24 hours a day.

• Access to our extensive library of training and qualifications, to support your continuous development

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.