Early Years Practitioner/ Nursery Nurse

The successful candidate must have CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care and Education, Early Years Practitioner, BTEC National Diploma in Children's Care, Learning & Development or NVQ Level 3 Children's Care, Learning and Development.

Experience in a Nursery Nurse/Early Years Practitioner Role or similar environment would be desirable, along with confidence in planning activities for a variety of ages of children.

Confidence with IT skills is also desirable.

As the Nursery Nurse on duty you will be responsible for initiating suitable age appropriate activities for the inpatient children on the unit, support families and the nursing staff with babies and children on the unit on a daily basis.

You will be directly involved in health promotion for children such as our mini mouths matter campaign to promote health mouths in children, and healthy eating.

You will work with the other nursery nurses to help plan and create a child friendly atmosphere and appropriate displays for the unit.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?

Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Qualifications

Essential: - Level 3 Early Years Qualification or equivalent i.e. NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early years workforce

Experience & Knowledge

Essential: - Knowledge and understanding of child development

Desirable: - Knowledge and understanding of Child protection issues and reporting mechanism; - Ability to develop appropriate play strategies