Extra-Curricular & Specialist Career Pathways

Tops Nursery INCO Lead

Inclusion Co-ordinator:

The INCO role has been created from amalgamating the SENCO & Behaviour Management rep lead roles

SENCO: Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator:

SENCO representatives have a legal duty to follow the SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) code of practice. This is crucial for early year’s settings in supporting early identification and intervention for children with special educational needs and will be a useful contact for parents if they were to have any concerns about their child’s development. The role of the SENCO involves ensuring all practitioners in the nursery understand their responsibilities to children with SEN and the setting’s approach to identifying and meeting SEND Code of practice.

Behaviour Management Representative:

Tops Day Nurseries aims to provide a safe environment for all children where they understand the clear and appropriate boundaries that are set for their behaviour, and their personal, social and emotional development is supported. Each of our nurseries have a named person who has overall responsibility for developing positive behaviour. The behaviour representative complies with the Early Years Foundation Stage’s guidance in managing behaviour and following a behaviour log for children of all ages.

Qualifications & Experience

• Required:

  •Level 3 Early Years SENCO Qualification

  •Level 3 Early Years Educator Childcare Diploma

  •Level 2 Diploma in Team Leading

  •Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health

  •Awareness of Mental Health Problems

  •Understanding Autism

  •Understanding Behaviour That Challenges

  •Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties 

  •Bullying and Harassment Training

  •Early Talk Boost Training

   

• Essential attributes:

  1. Displays a strong commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.
  2. Values and respects the perspectives and needs of children and others.
  3. Works collaboratively, supporting colleagues both within the organization and in external partnerships.
  4. Appreciates and embraces diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.
  5. Shows resilience and remains effective under pressure.
  6. Manages time efficiently and adheres to organizational processes and procedures to meet role standards.
  7. Committed to continuous personal and professional development and able to reflect on and learn from past experiences.

• What We Expect:

  The Tops and Aspire Team Member Checklist! 

Tops Nursery ENCO Lead

Equality Needs Coordinator:

At Tops we believe in valuing and celebrating the diversity within our community. We aim to develop good practice and positive attitudes in the early years, and encourage an anti-discriminatory approach to the world in general, and other human beings in particular. Within all of our Nurseries we have a Equality Needs co-ordinator, whom is responsible for ensuring that all children have equal opportunities to learn, develop and grow.

Qualifications & Experience

• Required:

  •Level 2 Diploma in Team Leading

  •Level 3 Diploma in Early Years Educator Childcare

  •Level 3 Management Diploma

  •Bullying and Harassment Training

  •Unconscious Bias Training

  •Prevent duty Training

   

   

• Essential Attributes:

  1. Displays a strong commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.
  2. Values and respects the perspectives and needs of children and others.
  3. Works collaboratively, supporting colleagues both within the organization and in external partnerships.
  4. Appreciates and embraces diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.
  5. Shows resilience and remains effective under pressure.
  6. Manages time efficiently and adheres to organizational processes and procedures to meet role standards.
  7. Committed to continuous personal and professional development and able to reflect on and learn from past experiences.

• What We Expect:

  The Tops and Aspire Team Member Checklist! 

Tops Forest School Lead

As a Forest School leader, you will be responsible in planning, preparing and delivering a range of Forest School sessions. You will need to ensure the environment is stimulating and appropriate including layout, display of resources, displays and equal opportunities. You will also need to contribute to a programme of activities that meet the individual needs and interests of children and the Early Years Framework.

To inquire about our Forest School vacancies, please click here.

Qualifications & Experience

• Required:

  •2 year’s childcare experience

  •Level 2 Diploma in Team Leading

  •Level 3 Forest School

  •Level 3 Diploma in Early Years Educator Childcare

  •Level 5 Diploma for the Early Years Senior Practitioner

   

• Essential attributes:

  1. Displays a strong commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.
  2. Values and respects the perspectives and needs of children and others.
  3. Works collaboratively, supporting colleagues both within the organization and in external partnerships.
  4. Appreciates and embraces diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.
  5. Shows resilience and remains effective under pressure.
  6. Manages time efficiently and adheres to organizational processes and procedures to meet role standards.
  7. Committed to continuous personal and professional development and able to reflect on and learn from past experiences.

• What We Expect:

  The Tops and Aspire Team Member Checklist! 

Tops Extra-Curricular Representative

As the Extra-Curricular Representative, you will be responsible for the overall implementation of the extra curricular activates within the setting.

Your Role Will Include:
• Producing and maintaining action plans for the extra curricular activities across the setting, taking into account quality and diversity when planning the activities.
• Working with the Nursery Manager to create and monitor bookings for activities, and subsequently monitoring and checking that all activities are running effectively and providing positive outcomes for the children.
• Ensuring that there are the appropriate resources to carry out the extra curricular activities in the setting.
• Communicating with the families that access the service promoting all of the extra curricular activities, offering advice and information within the nursery on any of the extra curricular activities– making it clear how you can be contacted.
• Promoting the extra-curricular activities to all staff, including meeting with new staff during their induction.

The H&S aspect of the role will include producing Risk Assessments, Health & Safety checks, and Cleaning Records.

Qualifications & Experience

• Required:

  Level 2 Childcare Diploma

  Undertake Tops yoga training

  Undertake Tops Boogie Mites training

  Any other additional training i.e.

  • Improving personal exercise, health and nutrition training
  • Understanding children and young people’s mental health

  Level 2 Team Leading Diploma

  Level 3 Management Diploma

   

• Essential attributes:

  1. Displays a strong commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.
  2. Values and respects the perspectives and needs of children and others.
  3. Works collaboratively, supporting colleagues both within the organization and in external partnerships.
  4. Appreciates and embraces diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.
  5. Shows resilience and remains effective under pressure.
  6. Manages time efficiently and adheres to organizational processes and procedures to meet role standards.
  7. Committed to continuous personal and professional development and able to reflect on and learn from past experiences.

   

• What We Expect:

  The Tops and Aspire Team Member Checklist! 

Tops Outdoor Lead

Tops has a strong ethos of encouraging children to take safe risks (ie climbing trees) which lends itself to development. The nursery’s outdoor area should be an environment that engages children’s play offering thought-provoking, stimulating activities for the children to extend their learning and development.

The role will require you to work in conjunction with management and colleagues at the setting to ensure that the outdoor space is one that children and colleagues can enjoy and benefit from, as well as ensuring the outdoor area at the nursery is developed in line with the Tops sustainable ethos.

The outdoor environment must be exciting, thought provoking, investigative and covers the 7 areas of learning and development; providing a space for the children’s physical activities i.e. daily mile, climbing, Boogie Mites etc., as well as having areas that the children can use for sleeping, performing yoga and quiet reflection.

The role will also require you to liaise with the nursery’s Gardening rep and the Health & Safety and Maintenance teams to ensure the garden remains seasonally appropriate, fit for purpose, and clear of any damaged or broken resources.

Qualifications & Experience

• Required:

  1 year’s childcare experience

  NVQ Level 2 Childcare Diploma
  NVQ Level 3 Early Years Educator Childcare Diploma
  Level 2 Team Leading Diploma
  Level 3 Management Diploma
  Life experience – camping, forest school, outdoor play certificate

   

• Essential attributes:

  1. Displays a strong commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.
  2. Values and respects the perspectives and needs of children and others.
  3. Works collaboratively, supporting colleagues both within the organization and in external partnerships.
  4. Appreciates and embraces diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.
  5. Shows resilience and remains effective under pressure.
  6. Manages time efficiently and adheres to organizational processes and procedures to meet role standards.
  7. Committed to continuous personal and professional development and able to reflect on and learn from past experiences.

• What We Expect:

  The Tops and Aspire Team Member Checklist! 

Tops Gardening Rep

This role will require you to work with different teams across Tops; the setting’s Manager, colleagues and Outdoor Lead, and the Health & Safety and Maintenance teams to ensure the nursery’s outdoor area is an environment that engages the children through risk-taking, thought-provoking, stimulating activity areas for the children to extend their learning and development.

Working with the Maintenance team, you will ensure continuous growing and gardening so that the outdoor area is fit for purpose and that resources are maintained and stored safely so that the correct clothing, tools and equipment are available when required.

You will assist the Nursery Manager with gardening checks and role model, coach and teach colleagues how to look after planted areas.

Collaborating with the Outdoor Lead to produce actions for gardening and ensuring there are flowers, fruit and vegetables being grown and to ensure they are being watered regularly. You will promote equality and accessibility to all to enable others to access planting and plant maintenance activities.

Qualifications & Experience

• Required:

  1 year’s childcare experience

  NVQ Level 2 Childcare Diploma
  NVQ Level 3 Early Years Educator Childcare Diploma
  Level 2 Team Leading Diploma
  Life experience – gardening

   

• Essential attributes:

  1. Displays a strong commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.
  2. Values and respects the perspectives and needs of children and others.
  3. Works collaboratively, supporting colleagues both within the organization and in external partnerships.
  4. Appreciates and embraces diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.
  5. Shows resilience and remains effective under pressure.
  6. Manages time efficiently and adheres to organizational processes and procedures to meet role standards.
  7. Committed to continuous personal and professional development and able to reflect on and learn from past experiences.

• What We Expect:

  The Tops and Aspire Team Member Checklist!