Education, Childcare


Company:	Community Family Services Ltd
Salary:	Not specified
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Liverpool, L5 4QT
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Jul 2026
Closing date:	17 Aug 2026

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Summary

Job Title: Early Years Practitioner

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week Monday - Friday shifts

Salary: Meets national minimum wage

Location: Everton

Early Years Practitioner Job Description

Community Family Services are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expect ALL staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Purpose of Post

• The role of the Early Years Practitioner is to provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting

• To give support to staff within the setting.

• To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.

• To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met.

Responsible to:

Nursery Manager/Deputy Manager/Directors

Main Duties:

• To effectively deliver the EYFS ensuring that the individual needs and interest of children in the setting are met (in conjunction with other team members)

• To keep records of your key children’s development and learning journeys and share with parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life.

• To prepare written planning sheets that reflect the children’s developmental needs

• Support all staff and engage in a good staff team.

• To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs.

• To ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children having an awareness of any disabilities, family cultures and medical histories.

• To advise manager/deputy of any concerns, e.g. over children, parents, the safety of the environment, preserving confidentiality as necessary.

• To be involved in out of working hours activities, e.g. training, monthly staff meetings, summer fayre,etc

• To be flexible within working practices of the setting, undertaking other responsible duties where needed, such as domestic tasks, preparation of snack meals, cleaning, cleansing of equipment, etc.

• To work alongside the manager/deputy and staff team to ensure that the setting’s philosophy is fulfilled.

• To read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role and the safe running of the setting.

• To develop your role within the team, especially with regard to being a key person

• To keep completely confidential any information regarding the children, their families or other staff that is acquired as part of the job.

• To be aware of the high profile of the setting and to uphold its standards at all times, both in work hours and outside.

• To support management, Staff, students and volunteers.

• To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.

• To undertake and lead on additional responsibilities such as SENCO, training co-ordinator, safeguarding Officer etc

The duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added. This job description may be reviewed in the future.

This post requires a DBS check as there may be periods of unsupervised access to children. An Enhanced DBS and satisfactory references would be obtained prior to commencement of employment.

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