Early Years Officer (Nursery Nurse)

The Oldham College is looking for:

Early Years Officer (Nursery Nurse) - Term time 38 weeks

The Role:

We are looking to appoint a qualified (Level 3), caring and enthusiastic individual to join our team at Butterflies. You should have at least 3 years post qualifying experience in an early years setting. You will be required to work as a team and individually to provide a safe, stimulating and caring environment, encouraging children to learn. As a keyworker you will actively contribute to the planning and delivery of the Early Years Curriculum.

Butterflies Nursery aims to be a provider of outstanding Early Years Care and Education.

We have a really great opportunity for a full time, term time, experienced Early Years Officer to join our Butterflies team.

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With a “good” Ofsted rating, a Silver “TEF” assessment for our higher education provision, one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

Claire Johnson, Childcare Development Manager, says “Butterflies nursery aims to provide a quality childcare service catering for each individual child’s needs, in a safe stimulating environment.

Our qualified staff team encourage children to grow and develop, whilst giving parents the security and peace of mind that they are safe, happy and well cared for.

If you feel you have the skills to encourage children to learn and develop through fun and exciting activities, we would love to hear from you”.

Oldham College is a medium sized general further education college, with a turnover of almost £25m. It has one main campus in the centre of town, and this in the third phases of a £40m redevelopment which began in 2012. Higher education is taught on a second, dedicated campus, a short walk away. The College delivers a full range of work related education and training, including 16-18 programmes of study, T levels, apprenticeships, adult learning and higher education. It has over 5000 full-time students and 600 undergraduates.

The College is in the top quartile for 16-18 programmes of study and English GCSE resits, and in apprenticeship provision, but is the second highest performing provider Greater Manchester. The quality of its higher education provision is better than many established universities.

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, our colleagues have access to numerous benefits and facilities:

· Generous Pension Scheme

· Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform

· Very generous holiday entitlement

· Employee Assistance Scheme

· Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision

· Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)

· Free confidential counselling service

· Staff recognition awards

· Subsidised car parking

· On-site Day Nursery

· On-site hair and beauty salon and The Grange Theatre both offering staff discounts

To apply, please send your CV and supporting statement directly to recruitment@oldham.ac.uk