Co-founder and planning force behind digital planning brand plannermum.com. Wife-&-husband team, helping families spend more time on the things that matter. Not on chaos.• Planner and product conception• Social media management and engagement• Networking and brand ambassador outreach

In addition to previous role responsibilities include:• Liaising with parents regarding settling-in visits for their children.• Attending meetings with specialists and parents in relation to SEND.• Managing the day to ensure the smooth running of the room.• Keeping paperwork up-to-date and ensuring other key workers in the room are on top of their workload, liaising with management if time out of numbers is needed.

Responsibilities included:• Assessing childrens’ developmental needs using observations to log them in their online learning journals. • Planning fun, engaging and purposeful activities in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage and childrens' next steps (including planning in the moment).• Supervising children and ensuring their safety.• Creating and maintaining partnerships with parents.

Responsibilities included:• Mentoring staff across the nursery, supporting new staff, apprentices and existing staff that require guidance. Organising and leading mentor meetings and advising room leaders on how to support their staff.• Carrying out 8-weekly one-to-ones with all childcare staff.• Carrying out annual staff appraisals.• Completing risk assessments and reviews, for example, maternity risk assessments, probation reviews etc.• Preparing for and leading whole staff team meetings monthly.• Admissions – from the initial enquiries to visits and then booking in the children on the eyLog system.• Interviewing potential staff members alongside the nursery manager and/or owner.• Ensuring that the highest standards are maintained across the nursery in all aspects of what we do.• Designated Safeguarding Lead.• Checking, publishing and then analysing developmental tracking to ensure early intervention if needed.• Making myself available for parents/carers to discuss any issues they may have with care or development. Greeting parents every morning.• Managing team morale, dealing with issues on the floor, and ensuring staff feel valued and heard.

Total People is a leading provider of quality apprenticeships, work-based training and study programmes. Offering qualifications in over 30 different vocational sectors, training programmes are structured yet flexible, designed to meet the needs of both the learner and employer.Responsibilities included:• Helping to recruit learners and create and maintain good relationships with placement settings.• Participating in promotional and marketing aspects of the sector.• Undertaking initial assessment of learners.• Delivering childcare knowledge and theory to apprentices at level 1, level 2 and level 3.• Supporting learners with their learning and reviewing their progress.• Ensuring the learning environment and resources meet learners’ individual needs.• Assessing work produced by learners and ensuring they meet the standards of the qualification.• Maintaining records and tracking.• Attending team and standardisation meetings. • Keeping knowledge of childcare up-to-date.

Responsibilities included:• Handling fees.• Key Holder.• Taking part in the setting’s Self Evaluation Form.• Writing and reviewing policies in relation to the Early Years Foundation Stage.• Giving support and guidance to colleagues in relation to their work or studies.

In addition to the above role responsibilities included:• Risk Assessing areas of the setting where accidents have occurred and making changes if required.• Ensuring that each room has a risk assessment completed daily.• Risk assessing all areas of the setting annually and reviewing them regularly throughout the year.

In addition to previous role responsibilities included:• Keeping paperwork up-to-date.• Managing the day-to-day running of the room.

Responsibilities included:• Assessing childrens’ developmental needs using observations and logging them in their files.• Planning fun, engaging and purposeful activities in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage and childrens' next steps.• Supervising children and ensuring their safety.• Creating and maintaining partnerships with parents.