Soldato
Hi guys.
I have been doing my job for over 8 months, which started out as a week in the school holidays and turned now into a full time job (More or less) My job title at the moment is 'Releif Nursery Nurse' and I go between 2 nurseries in Staffordshire (Same chain of course) working in all the rooms from babies upto the pre-school room and that is one thing I enjoy about my job, working with a variety of children at various ages and stages of development.. for the moment I am based in the baby room at our Rugeley nursery covering various holidays.
My wage as I am still 18 is around £4.70 an hour which is (so im told) well above the NMW for 18 year olds, and is due to rise to nearlly £6.00 when I reach 22. And occaisionally I get the odd quiet afternoon off or the entire day (The latter is rare for me these days) which is normally a monday, and as we have literally 11 Children in the nursery, I got this afternoon off.
The other day my mum asked me.. we were going on about something to do with the fact that my dad works full time and she said to me, your off again? and I do feel occasionally that she exagerates that, because I very rarely have any time off, because theres always need for me at one nursery or the other if one doesnt need me as our Staff bank is kept relitivley low to save the owner on wages Imagine, I am the only member on the cover bank that does the most work (40+ hours most weeks as my shifts start at 8 and end at 5:30)
But over the past couple of weeks I have been thinking to myself, will I still be in a job here when I reach 22? and honestly, I could not answer myself simply because I feel already that I may change to do something else when I get a bit older.. this has been brought on more so by my day today, I didnt feel 100% in my ability to manage my room whilst the senior staff were on their dinner break.. I a child who dislikes males, and being the only staff member in the room he was crying as soon as he saw me out of his cott then waking up a child next to him as a knock on.
So I get this one little one up, giving me the screaming act, so I placed him down in an attempt to affect some self soothing, as he was tired, I decided just to sit him down in the soft play area for a few mins and see if he calms down whilst I see to the 6 month old he had just woken up.
Now by this point it was around 20 past 12 and I was thinking okay, what do I do now? I have 2 babies crying lol, the one couldnt be helped as I wasnt sure if he was due anything (IE a bottle) as it was his first day, so I didnt know much about him... I found out that he was due a feed once the staff members returned. And that was that.
Now the training I have says I am atleast a Qualified Nursery Nurse with sufficiant training and knowledge to be left with more than one child for a period of time, I am qualied to CCE NVQ 2 Status... meaning that I can work in some establishments, bit is really a directed nursery qualification, and its all the College education I have... and today for the first time ever I felt doubt as to whether I am capable of doing my job simply because I felt I lacked in training that everyone else had, and I didnt (They are all Qualled to the LEvel 3 Qualification) and I felt stressed to the max.. I couldnt wait to get away at 1,and I have never felt like that before.. and I have been left on my own on countless occasions. I just feel that if I do one day decide to switch jobs, I have absolutley no idea what I would do...
Call this a bit of a stress outlet, but I dont know whether its just me lacking in confidence, the senior manager has told me before that I was very practical thinking and I knew most of the time what I was doing...
At the Rugeley nursery I do feel at times a little pressured by the staff as I dont have the closest of working relationships with them, as I am used to spending most of my time at the Stafford nursery and I have excellent friends there that I rarely get to see anymore, but when I am there I feel that everything comes a little more naturally and I actually have a fun day there.. I dont know what the problem is
I have been doing my job for over 8 months, which started out as a week in the school holidays and turned now into a full time job (More or less) My job title at the moment is 'Releif Nursery Nurse' and I go between 2 nurseries in Staffordshire (Same chain of course) working in all the rooms from babies upto the pre-school room and that is one thing I enjoy about my job, working with a variety of children at various ages and stages of development.. for the moment I am based in the baby room at our Rugeley nursery covering various holidays.
My wage as I am still 18 is around £4.70 an hour which is (so im told) well above the NMW for 18 year olds, and is due to rise to nearlly £6.00 when I reach 22. And occaisionally I get the odd quiet afternoon off or the entire day (The latter is rare for me these days) which is normally a monday, and as we have literally 11 Children in the nursery, I got this afternoon off.
The other day my mum asked me.. we were going on about something to do with the fact that my dad works full time and she said to me, your off again? and I do feel occasionally that she exagerates that, because I very rarely have any time off, because theres always need for me at one nursery or the other if one doesnt need me as our Staff bank is kept relitivley low to save the owner on wages Imagine, I am the only member on the cover bank that does the most work (40+ hours most weeks as my shifts start at 8 and end at 5:30)
But over the past couple of weeks I have been thinking to myself, will I still be in a job here when I reach 22? and honestly, I could not answer myself simply because I feel already that I may change to do something else when I get a bit older.. this has been brought on more so by my day today, I didnt feel 100% in my ability to manage my room whilst the senior staff were on their dinner break.. I a child who dislikes males, and being the only staff member in the room he was crying as soon as he saw me out of his cott then waking up a child next to him as a knock on.
So I get this one little one up, giving me the screaming act, so I placed him down in an attempt to affect some self soothing, as he was tired, I decided just to sit him down in the soft play area for a few mins and see if he calms down whilst I see to the 6 month old he had just woken up.
Now by this point it was around 20 past 12 and I was thinking okay, what do I do now? I have 2 babies crying lol, the one couldnt be helped as I wasnt sure if he was due anything (IE a bottle) as it was his first day, so I didnt know much about him... I found out that he was due a feed once the staff members returned. And that was that.
Now the training I have says I am atleast a Qualified Nursery Nurse with sufficiant training and knowledge to be left with more than one child for a period of time, I am qualied to CCE NVQ 2 Status... meaning that I can work in some establishments, bit is really a directed nursery qualification, and its all the College education I have... and today for the first time ever I felt doubt as to whether I am capable of doing my job simply because I felt I lacked in training that everyone else had, and I didnt (They are all Qualled to the LEvel 3 Qualification) and I felt stressed to the max.. I couldnt wait to get away at 1,and I have never felt like that before.. and I have been left on my own on countless occasions. I just feel that if I do one day decide to switch jobs, I have absolutley no idea what I would do...
Call this a bit of a stress outlet, but I dont know whether its just me lacking in confidence, the senior manager has told me before that I was very practical thinking and I knew most of the time what I was doing...
At the Rugeley nursery I do feel at times a little pressured by the staff as I dont have the closest of working relationships with them, as I am used to spending most of my time at the Stafford nursery and I have excellent friends there that I rarely get to see anymore, but when I am there I feel that everything comes a little more naturally and I actually have a fun day there.. I dont know what the problem is