Yaldaz Aydan Mehmed

Work history

The Village Nursery

Manchester , Trafford Park

02.2015 - 06.2023

Increased accessibility to training workshops and materials by catering to specific requests.
Produced training and supportive materials tailored to organisational needs.
Analysed training requirements at individual, team and organisational level.
Planned training schedules, prepared materials and booked necessary rooms and facilities.
Attended various trainings, created PowerPoints and made them accessible to all staff members.
Followed new staff members' induction process and ensured that they have accessibility and the time to familiarize themselves in setting's policies and procedures.
Supported students in their placements and ensured that they can find the materials needed to complete their studies.
Created a mentoring system, ensuring that all new staff and staff that need support have a mentor, which will carry out meetings with them up until there is no need for more.
Mentored staff members and reviewed their progress. Ensured members of staff know that mentoring it's an on-going process which can be pick up again whenever there is a need for one.
Assessed training needs across the whole setting and planned if there will be beneficial of one holistic training is carried out on a certain aspect with the whole team or whether few smaller trainings will be better to smaller groups of staff members.
Communicated with staff to find out individual interests of development and looked for trainings that can support them in taking further steps in own development.

Village Nursery

Manchester , Trafford Park

02.2015 - 06.2020

Plan and delegate the day to day nursery aspects within the the toddler room.
Ensure fun and age appropriate activities are carried out for the children under mine and my staff care.
Follow up on children's development and provide with stimulating environment enabling the progression of their next steps.
Write individual holistic developmental reports and carry out parental meetings to share and discuss those.
Plan and carry out meetings with individual staff to discuss performance and areas of achievements and areas for further development.
Support staff with carrying out Developmental Logs, which reflect on own trainings, areas of interest and possible routines for continues development.
Carry out room meetings to discuss planning, room improvements and record staff's input and ideas.
Ensure open communication between all staff members and resolve any disagreements if any have occurred.

The Village Nursery

Manchester , Trafford Park

02.2015 - 06.2020

Maintained team-oriented atmosphere with open communication and quick conflict resolution.
Tracked employee performance, assessed daily output and implemented corrective actions to close gaps.
Attended various trainings to be able to support staff members with better understanding of setting's policies and procedures.
Created and followed up records of staff members and their revision of policies and procedures.
Planned the staff around the nursery accordingly to needs in individual rooms and created opportunities for staff members to have time to sit outside their rooms and read policies, catch up on work, follow up individual planning.
Ensuring the staff ratios are always met and extra support is provided whenever needed.
Trained in using setting's system "Connect" to log details of new children and to mark children's absences.
Responsible in opening and closing the nursery in managers/deputy's absence.
Cooperated with individual staff members in their areas of responsibilities, such as "health and safety" co-ordinator in ensuring that members have their most up-to-date knowledge.
Carried out show arounds of the setting to new possible parents. Highlighting the outstanding practices throughout and discussing their questions/worries in the transaction ahead of them.

Academy 4 Kids

London , Whetstone

10.2009 - 07.2014

Supported ongoing occupancy growth and retention strategies by actively promoting nursery to prospective and current customers.
Owned safeguarding activities for 40 preschool children and promoted health, safety and welfare of children and staff members.
Promoted compliance with EYFS curriculum requirements and integration of British values in learning and play.
Enforced and raised awareness of nursery's policies and procedures in team of 6.
Ensured child records were consistently up-to-date, accessible to nursery team and maintained to high standard.
Led observations and assessments of learning and development of 12 children termly.
Planned and facilitated stimulating range of age-appropriate activities for 2 to 5 year olds, including creative play and arts and crafts.
Ensured full compliance to internal policies and procedures in alignment with external legislation and regulations of governing bodies.
Led, mentored and inspired team of 6 by providing constructive feedback in regular 1:1s, supervisions and appraisals.
As a SENCO: observed individual children and created Individual Learning Plans for children with additional needs.
Worked alongside multi-agency professionals to ensure that children are fully supported in meeting their full potential.
Supported key people in creating next steps for the children under their care.
Carried out meetings with staff and parents to ensure continuality in care and consistency for the child at the setting and at home.