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Working in a nursery requires patience, a nurturing personality and a true affinity with children. These roles carry great responsibility as parents are entrusting their child in your care. Nursery nurses work with children from birth to around seven years of age. They can work in a variety of settings, such as local authority or privately owned nurseries, and nursery or infant schools or abroad in holiday camps or hotel resorts for short or long periods of time. As a nursery nurse you would be responsible for educating the children in your care and helping them develop their social skills. This could involve:

• planning and supervising activities such as reading, arts and crafts, music and cooking
• observing and monitoring children, making sure they are safe
• working closely with parents and reporting any concerns
• keeping records and giving information to parents on their child's development.
• if you work with very young children and babies, your duties could also include feeding, changing and bathing them
• you could specialise in working with children who are physically disabled or have learning difficulties or mental health problems

You do not always need academic qualifications to start training as a nursery nurse. However, course providers and employers may prefer you to have a good general standard of education, possibly including three or four GCSEs (A-C) or similar.

To begin work as a nursery nurse, you will need a qualification see www.trainingsearch.co.uk

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