Creche Assistant - Streatham Ice & Leisure Centre

Creche Assistant - Streatham Ice & Leisure Centre


Crche Assistant

 

Based: Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre

 

Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre is looking for a casual Crche Assistant to provide a safe, stimulating, educational and fun environment for children attending Crche at Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre in Lambeth. Our creche provide childcare and welfare for children of up to five years of age as well as providing support to their families, so it's imperative that the facilities and surroundings provide a clean, safe and welcoming environment.

 

High-quality care, education and a safe, yet enjoyable environment are of the utmost importance in our Centres, so your commitment to provide fun structured sessions and activities in line with GLL's Crche Play and Learn brand will be key. Good understanding of the challenges faced when working with children of different ages, abilities and cultures will be needed as you'll provide a welcoming and stimulating environment in order to deliver high quality childcare.

 

You'll have childcare experience covering differing age groups in various settings with a minimum NVQ/CACHE Level 2 in Childcare (or equivalent) with a First Aid at Work qualification. It will be beneficial to have knowledge of Birth to Three Matters, Foundation Stages, Ofsted and Health & Safety legislation as well as the qualities that parents and guardians expect from childcare provision. It goes without saying that you'll be friendly and approachable as well as being imaginative, creative and a positive role model to the children that you supervise.

 

In return, we offer a range of benefits that you'd expect from the UK's largest leisure provider:

Pension schemes

Discounted membership at our leisure centres

Career pathways

Ongoing training and development to help you to be the best

 

If you're passionate and committed about what you do and believe in our social ethos of accessibility and affordability to all, then apply now.

 

The welfare and safety of the children in our care is of the utmost importance to us at GLL. We follow safer recruitment procedures to ensure that our staff are checked and appropriate to work with children and young people. Therefore we'll require you to complete an enhance DBS check before you will be allowed to start work.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location. About UsBetter Children's Centres are run by GLL, the UK's largest leisure and cultural services provider and one of the first and largest leisure social enterprises. Our aim is to get more people, more active, more of the time whilst making leisure and community facilities accessible and affordable. We partner with local authorities to run leisure centres, swimming pools, libraries, children's centres, spas, events spaces and world-class sporting venues such as the Copper Box Arena and London Aquatics Centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - all under our Better brand. As a not-for-profit organisation, we're different. Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are an Investors in People Silver Award employer.

GLL is an equal opportunities employer.