Co-op Childcare Careers and Employment

Got my level 3 in childcare through working here great place to work only left to have my child , they looked after their staff and the team all helped each other.

Work for this company is very stressful and no rewording, without to mention the management is unprofessional and there is a lack on listening and solving issue

My experience was poor. The workload expectations were massive, expected to work miricals without support. I was expected without notice to assist in childcare aspects I was not comfortable with, untrained for and arguably was not part of my job description; however according to management is contractually obliged ( small print ambiguously placed under reasonable request ) and diciplineries enforced if non compliant. Even though working with children who fall into the catagory of being vulnerable and strict policies regarding illness, if you are to follow policy and be socially responsible and legaly compliant you are rewarded with disciplinary proceedings and never ending probations due to a "three month rolling" system of illness monitoring.

One of the worst companies to work for. Bad management and unorganised to say the least. All they are bothered about is giving disciplinarys to staff for not following rules which are not made clear and change regularly and staff are just expected to know. Underpaid for the work load expected from you. Not a positive environment to work in!

I feel very supported in my nursery and have recently started virtually attending the managers' meetings too. You can tell from these meetings all the work that is carried out higher up.

In my nursery, I feel part of a team and know that I have a say. I love working with the children and have found the transition from senior practitioner to Room Manager a little tricky at times, but my manager has helped me to work on this.