Nursery & Crèche
Creche Assistant
Creche Assistant
Nuffield Health Milton Keynes FWC | Childcare | Permanent | Part time
£26,166.40 per annum (pro rata)
8 hours per week
Our Milton Keynes crèche currently has an opportunity for a Creche Assistant. Continue your journey with us whilst we’ll support you to be your best.
As a Creche Assistant, you’ll make sure the care and education we provide promotes health, growth and development. Caring for a small group of children, you’ll help them to achieve the best possible start in life. You’ll love your career at Nuffield Health. Our unique approach to connected healthcare brings great advantages to our members and patients. It also creates amazing opportunities for you to find professional fulfilment.
Across hospitals, clinics and medical centres, Fitness and Wellbeing Clubs, and specialist services including physiotherapy, we offer total, personalised health and wellbeing. What’s more, as Britain’s largest not for profit healthcare provider, we invest every penny in services and staff. Our big plans for change and growth include lots of support for your professional development. And we offer more time and scope for you to make a difference.
As Creche Assistant, you will create a safe, secure and stimulating creche environment - one where children can explore their potential. You’ll consider their physical, emotional, intellectual, social and psychological development. You’ll do it through play and education, always keeping up with the latest changes in childcare legislation. We’ll give you opportunities to train in new techniques and approaches. But to join us, you’ll need proven experience in creche environment.
You'll be qualified to NNEB, NVQ Level 3, BTEC. Ideally, you'll also have EYPS, Paediatric First Aid. Most importantly, you are passionate about creating great experiences for children and their families.
As a Creche Assistant, you will:
Take reasonable care of yourself and others while complying with Health and Safety policy at all times.
Create a safe, clean, tidy, secure and stimulating Crèche environment – one where children can fully explore their potential.
Consider children’s physical, emotional, intellectual, social and psychological development through play and education.
Provide equipment for play and education.
Ensure Crèche is safe, clean and tidy at all times.
Liaise with parents and carers regularly in an informative and appropriate manner.
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.
It starts with you.
Rewards & Benefits
Helping you be and feel your best.
Annual Leave
25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.
Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan
Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.
*eligibility criteria applies.
Financial Wellbeing
A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.
Gym Membership
Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.
Online GP
Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.
Physiotherapy
Free access to our unique Physiotherapy Triage Services and discounted virtual and face-to-face treatment.
Relevant Stories
Sharing memorable experiences.
Lovely memories
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Pride 2023
At Nuffield Health, we welcome everyone. That's why we are proud to support Pride 2023 and the LGBTQIA+ community, with diversity and inclusivity for all at the heart of all we stand for. We hear from members of our LGBTQIA+ Equity forum, Jay Morris, Jacqs Harper and Hope Reeves.
International Women's Day 2023
To celebrate international women's day, we have interviewed women across the charity who have shared their thoughts with us, which you will see throughout the week and in stories.
It starts with marching for Pride
To mark LGBTQ+ History Month, and as part of the ongoing awareness activity of our Equity Forum, we asked Jay Morris, Learning and Development Specialist for Nursing at Nuffield Health and member of our Equity Forum, what LGBTQ+ History Month means to him and what we can do to support our LBGTQ+ friends and colleagues.
Hints & Tips
Help with your application.
Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.
Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview.
CV
Think about the skills and qualities asked for in the job description and show how you’ve applied those same skills and qualities in other roles. Focus on the things that will make us want to see more of you.
Covering email
Your CV will contain details about why you’d be a good fit for the role, but it’s well worth adding a short, snappy paragraph pulling out the two or three most compelling reasons as to why you’d be perfect for the job in your covering email..
Video interview
The video interview lasts 15-20 minutes if you get to this stage. On the day, look the part, be aware of your surroundings and practice your answers to feel prepared. Most of all, relax and be yourself.
DBS Checks
Some of our roles require a DBS check and they are processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of the recruitment process. These checks are to assist employers in making safer recruitment decisions. However, a check is just one part of robust recruitment practice.
Documents
You could be asked to provide proof of vaccinations as part of our Occupational Health pre-employment screening. We know it can be time consuming to get this information if you don’t already have it to hand, so we encourage you to start preparing this information to avoid any delays to the onboarding process.
Your current studies
If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact careers@nuffieldhealth.com