Job Title: Nursery Officer - La Moye School
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
Salary Range: £39,022.48 to £43,154.75
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: Yes
Advert Closing Date:28/02/2025
By joining the Government of Jersey and wider Jersey Public Services, you'll be proud of what you can achieve – both for yourself and the people of Jersey. You'll enjoy a broader scope that allows you to express yourself, in a smaller setting that means you see the positive results of your impact every day. You'll have a diversity of opportunities that stretch and challenge you, with all the personal and professional support you need. Most of all, in our open, welcoming environment, your voice matters, enabling you to build a rewarding career.
Job Overview
La Moye School is seeking to recruit a Nursery Officer to work within our aspirational and inclusive school. The successful candidate will have experience working in Early Years, a thorough understanding of child development, and an enthusiasm for helping every child reach their potential. They will be driven to ensure equity and success for all learners by catering for their interests through a rich, engaging and dynamic provision.
Job Purpose
La Moye School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share the commitment.
- To provide the teaching staff with appropriate support in the planning, implementation and monitoring of education programmes to enable access to learning of students and to assist the teacher in the management of students and the classroom.
- To provide the teaching staff with appropriate support in the planning, implementation and monitoring of special educational programmes to meet the needs of individuals or small groups with special educational needs. To support the physical welfare of the students, both in an integrated and extraction situation and supervise medication as prescribed by a physician.
Job Specific Outcomes
Although the postholder will be working under the guidance of a teacher, there will be occasions when they need to make decisions and use their initiative. They must be flexible and able to cope with changing situations within the classroom. Be patient but firm, remain calm and deal with others in a tactful and sensitive manner. Working within a team, the postholder will need to share ideas and information as well as accept advice. They must have the ability to build good working relationships with both adults and children
Nursery Officers are expected to undertake their own programmes (which have been planned with the class teacher or Educational Needs Co-ordinator) with groups or individual students. Weekly meetings will be held with the class teacher or Educational Needs Co-ordinator.
Work with particular groups of students to carry out specific programmes. These may not necessarily take place in the classroom. The types of programmes could include computer based programmes or early literacy support for which the postholder would have specific training.
- Ensure that the necessary differentiated resources are in place to undertake these specific programmes.
- Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom.
Qualifications
- Numeracy/literacy skills to a minimum of level 2 standard
- NVQ 3 or equivalent qualification or Diploma in Childcare Education at Level 3 plus 2 years relevant experience
- Training in at least two relevant strategies eg literacy and/or in particular curriculum or learning area e.g. bi-lingual, sign language Level 2, dyslexia etc.
- Appropriate First Aid training
Knowledge
- Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation
- Working knowledge of curriculum and other relevant learning programmes/strategies
- Understanding of principles of child development and learning processes
- Knowledge of Health and Safety
- Have an understanding of the range of support services/providers/agencies.
Technical Work Based Skills
- Can use ICT effectively to support learning
- Use of other equipment technology – video, photocopier
- Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
- Ability to relate well to children and adults
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these
- Ability to plan effective actions for students who require support to progress their learning or who require specific support to facilitate their accessing of learning opportunities.
- The ability to communicate at all levels while exercising a high degree of confidentiality is essential.
Experience
- Working with or caring for children of relevant age
- 2 years experience in working with students
Across the Government of Jersey and public service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wider range of opportunities – to work with recognised experts across teams, learn new skills and develop their careers. We actively look to recruit people from different backgrounds, with diverse perspectives. This creates a richer, more varied environment, where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new opportunities, so you can develop an exciting and rewarding career.
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