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School Nursery Nurse Employment Contract UK

Set responsive early-years practice around safe care, purposeful play and reliable family handovers.

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Job description

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

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Notice periods

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When to use this contract

Maintain safe and responsive care across the nursery day, deliver purposeful play and learning matched to children's needs, and deliver useful observation, key-person communication and transition support.

Workplace context: School, college or other agreed education premises and authorised off-site educational activities.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering qualification and suitability evidence. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering key-person, room and supervision duties. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering term-time, shift and training arrangements. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering safeguarding, intimate care and child information. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering safeguarding.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: Work within the Employer's documented responsibility for a key group, room deployment and routine parent updates, and identify who approves support plans, medication exceptions, safeguarding action and changes affecting staffing or provision. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the age range setting and key-person duties
  • the hours ratios and term-time arrangement
  • the personal-care food and medicine procedures
  • the observation assessment and record systems
  • the qualification safeguarding and first-aid expectations

Day-to-day operating brief

What Nursery Nurse work looks like in practice

A nursery nurse provides qualified early-years care and learning support, often with key-person and observation responsibilities. The contract should state the actual qualification basis, room role and safeguarding accountability without implying management authority that has not been assigned. Daily practice should link care routines with communication, physical development, language, exploration and relationships rather than treating observation as paperwork detached from play. The employee may notice a developmental or welfare concern, but should record what was observed and use the setting's referral route instead of presenting an informal diagnosis. Room transitions, key-person absence and end-of-day handovers need enough information to preserve continuity for young children.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Provide safe age-appropriate care and learning.
  • Prepare play environments and daily routines.
  • Observe development and contribute to planning.
  • Support meals rest toileting and personal care.
  • Record accidents safeguarding and family handovers.

A realistic working scenario

The nursery nurse may welcome children, plan and adapt play, support care routines, observe development, update parents through the approved route and raise welfare or additional-needs concerns with the room lead or safeguarding lead.

Outputs to agree

  • safe and responsive care across the nursery day
  • purposeful play and learning matched to children's needs
  • useful observation, key-person communication and transition support

Records and evidence

  • Attendance, collection and key-person records.
  • Learning observations and planning evidence.
  • Care, accident and medication records where allocated.
  • Safeguarding and parent-communication handovers.
  • Child records.
  • Attendance records.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Nursery Manager, Room Leader, SENCO or Early Years Lead. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • Work within the Employer's documented responsibility for a key group, room deployment and routine parent updates, and identify who approves support plans, medication exceptions, safeguarding action and changes affecting staffing or provision.
  • Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

  • Early-years record systems.
  • Learning observation tools.
  • Nursery communication systems.
  • Play and learning equipment.

Workplace context

  • School, college or other agreed education premises and authorised off-site educational activities.

Training and certification

  • Complete employer-required safeguarding training.

Contract priorities

  • qualification and suitability evidence
  • key-person, room and supervision duties
  • term-time, shift and training arrangements
  • safeguarding, intimate care and child information

Information the employer should prepare

  • the age range setting and key-person duties
  • the hours ratios and term-time arrangement
  • the personal-care food and medicine procedures
  • the observation assessment and record systems
  • the qualification safeguarding and first-aid expectations

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Maintained role evidence

The facts this Nursery Nurse contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for education work.

Work setting

School, college or other agreed education premises and authorised off-site educational activities.

Primary duties

  • Provide safe age-appropriate care and learning.
  • Prepare play environments and daily routines.
  • Observe development and contribute to planning.
  • Support meals rest toileting and personal care.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Early-years record systems.
  • Learning observation tools.
  • Nursery communication systems.
  • Play and learning equipment.

Governance focus

Ofsted context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering qualification and suitability evidence. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering key-person, room and supervision duties. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering term-time, shift and training arrangements.

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Role wording

Nursery Nurse duties

Maintain safe and responsive care across the nursery day, deliver purposeful play and learning matched to children's needs, and deliver useful observation, key-person communication and transition support.

Provide safe age-appropriate care and learning. Prepare play environments and daily routines. Observe development and contribute to planning. Support meals rest toileting and personal care. Record accidents safeguarding and family handovers.

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What is added to the finished contract

Work within the Employer's documented responsibility for a key group, room deployment and routine parent updates, and identify who approves support plans, medication exceptions, safeguarding action and changes affecting staffing or provision.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering qualification and suitability evidence.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering key-person, room and supervision duties.

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Frequently asked questions

Should a nursery nurse's key-person duties be in the contract?

Where the setting assigns a key group, describe observation, planning, communication and handover expectations and the supervision route, while keeping room-management or safeguarding decisions with the designated lead.

Does the title nursery nurse prove a required qualification?

No. The employer should verify the actual qualification, current suitability and whether it meets the requirements for the duties and staffing treatment intended in that setting.

Is personal care included?

State routines, dignity, training and recording expectations.

Can medicine be administered?

Only through the setting's authorised procedure.

Who speaks to families about development?

Define key-person and leadership responsibilities.

How are ratios handled?

Deployment must follow the setting's applicable staffing controls.

Can photographs be taken?

Only with approved devices, purpose and permissions.

What records are required?

Include attendance, care, observations, accidents and safeguarding.

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