We are currently hiring a Teacher Assistant for our client, a well-established nursery in Abu Dhabi. This full-time role is ideal for educators with a strong background in early childhood education who are committed to creating a nurturing learning environment for young children.
Responsibilities:
- Assisting children in their learning and play activities
- Encouraging children to follow the supervisors’ instructions.
- Helping to encourage and maintain children’s positive behaviour.
- Preparing materials and resources for daily arts and crafts activities, helping to create displays of children’s work, photocopying and other tasks.
- Assisting supervisors with maintaining children’s records as directed – Client’s feedback application, learning journals, toileting and sleep records etc.
- Assisting at events, holiday camps and during afternoon club as required.
- Assisting with and/or delivering certain aspects of the nursery supervisor’s lesson plan/activities if she is absent (only when directed by management.)
- Attending training and CPD sessions as required.
- Assisting parents at drop off/pick up time – collecting children’s personal items together, ensuring faces are clean, hair and clothes are tidy, nappy has been changed/they have been to the toilet and reminding parents to sign in/out.
- Taking children to the toilet, washing their hands and changing nappies as directed by the nursery nurse following induction training.
- Helping children at meal and break times
- Heating food where necessary using relevant health and safety guidelines.
- Assisting children with aprons, opening lunchboxes and taking their seats.
- Feeding children where necessary and encouraging them to feed themselves.
- Ensuring all snack/lunch items belonging to each child are kept safe, organised and packed away again after use.
- Cleaning up after meal times – packing away leftover food into lunchboxes (to be returned home), wiping tables, sweeping the floor, taking out rubbish.
- Checking that children have not been given prohibited foods – nuts etc.
- Cleaning duties
· Helping to maintain a safe, secure and clean environment for learning and play.
· Daily cleaning duties and weekly deep clean as scheduled by the cleaning supervisor.
- Administration
· Ensure compliance with all Quality, Health and Safety and Environmental (QHSE) policies and procedures
· Follow established Company’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)
- General Tasks
Perform any other duties and responsibilities as designated by the Nursery Manager
Minimum Qualifications:
- UAE attested A Levels or equivalent high school leavers’ qualifications and at least 2 years’ experience
- Or CACHE Level 2 (preferred)
- First Aid
- Fire Marshall
Minimum Experience:
- 2 years of experience in similar field (if candidate does not hold the CACHE Level 2 qualification)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent