Nursery World - My working life ... Ski creche manager

Working abroad in a holiday resort is quite a different experience
from providing nursery care in the UK. Grant Rivers tells Gabriella
Jozwiak about his role overseeing provision during the ski season.

Grant Rivers is a childcare manager for skiing holiday company LeSki. In November, he began the 2014 ski season at La Tania resort in the French Alps, where he will stay until April 2015.

'A normal skiing holiday is one week long,' he says. 'Guests arrive on Sunday when the creche is shut. On Monday morning I go to our three chalets to meet the families and make sure they're happy. At 8:30am I have a short meeting with my team of four qualified staff about the week ahead. We set up the purpose-built room, and I go to collect the children, or the parents bring them in before they leave for a day of skiing.

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