Centre Assistant (Stonecroft Nursery) – Maternity Cover

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: SC1B
Salary: £27,345 – £27,729 per annum (pro rata)
Contract Type: Part Time, Permanent (Maternity Cover for 6 months to 1 year)
The role is 16 hours over 5 days. The hours are 11.15 – 2.30pm
Closing Date: Sunday 1st June 2025
Interview Date: Thursday 12th June 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

Stonecroft is a Haringey Council maintained Nursery that has recently been rated “Outstanding” for a second time by Ofsted. Stonecroft is an innovative nursery with friendly, hardworking and motivated staff who provide childcare and education for families in our diverse local community. Stonecroft has an exciting Reggio inspired environment for children to grow and reach their full potential. We are looking for a Centre Assistant to work within the nursery in supporting children aged 2 years to rising 5 year olds during their play and through maintaining a healthy, safe and clean play environment for children and services users.

A Centre assistant works as part of a team ensuring that the building is a bright, welcoming hygienic space, which is well resourced and safely managed. The Centre Assistant supports the Nursery team throughout the day and plays a pivotal role at meal times.
We are excited to find a new team members to join our experienced team for the next exciting phase of our development. This will be a great opportunity for you to be part of our vision in being a beacon of outstanding childcare and education in the Local Authority.

About You

• You are an enthusiastic individual with a passion for working with young children and taking care of their hygiene and safety needs. You will be a good flexible and dynamic team player. Any experience or qualification up to level 2 in working with children and young people welcome but not essential, and with a willingness to develop, train and progress.
• Be an inspirational role model to children and be passionate about team working.
• Be a good communicator.
• Be an advocate for equal opportunities.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.
Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk