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September 16, 2024

Early Days Creche and Day Care Centre

Clane

PART TIME

Early year educator - Part time

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 or the forefront of the service and provide 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.
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 pre-school room
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. Prefer level 7/8
Contact – Tanya Montgomery- 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 practised. 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.
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: Part-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to €13 -15.50 per hour
Schedule:

Maximum 5 hour shift in the AM
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 5/6/7/8 (required)

Job Type: Part-time
Pay: €14.00-€17.00 per hour
Expected hours: 8.00 – 14.00 per week
Benefits:

Company events
On-site parking

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

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