Bank Early Years Nursery Practitioner

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit enthusiastic, self-motivated and compassionate people to work on our nursery bank.Our bank service aims to supply appropriately skilled staff to cover temporary shortages across the organisation. Joining the bank provides you with the flexibility to choose your own working hours with a competitive rate of pay and weekly payments available. It can also provide the opportunity to gain experience with the trust as a precursor to permanent employment., The nursery aims to support the recruitment and retention of staff within the Trust and as such provides full day care for 54 children aged from 6 months up to 5 years. The post holder will be required to work as part of a team providing effective childcare in line with Trust and Nursery policies. The post holder will be required to assist with the care of children on a daily basis meeting their individual needs e.g. Feeding, changing, emotional support and educational development opportunities in line with the Early Foundation Stage Framework.

We are looking for kind, caring and compassionate people who share our values. Successful applicants will have or be working towards an NVQ Level 2/3 in childcare or equivalent and have a passion to work with young children with excellent communication skills.

The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.