What is the difference between a nursery nurse and a nursery assistant?

Question

What is the difference between a nursery nurse and a nursery assistant?

Answer 1

qualifications that is what makes the differences

Answer 2

Nursery Nurse is higher up than a nursery assistant...an assistant also doesn't need the same formal qualifications. Nursery Nurses need level 3's in childcare.

Answer 3

Intelligence and pay

Answer 4

Nursery Nurses are qualified and been to college wheras nursery assistants are not qualified but may have just worked with kids and have the experience or maybe been on some training

Answer 5

Alot of employers don't really use nursery nurse as a job title anymore, it has been replaced by nursery assistant, cause people assume that cause you have nurse in your job title you have some medical training. But some employers use the assistant title for someone in training and the nurse title for someone who is fully qualified. Hope that helps.

Answer 6

A Nursery Nurse has a formal qualification - NNEB - which requires at least two years college training and she can run her own nursery, be left in charge of pre-school age children and can supervise non-qualified staff.  A nursery assistant usually has no formal qualification, needs to be supervised by  trained staff and assists the nursery teacher or nursery nurse in the nursery setting.

Of course,  Nursery Nurses can command a considerably higher salary than that of a Nursery Assistant .

Having said that, I have worked with excellent nursery assistants  who have been brilliant at their jobs, and with Nursery Nurses whose skill and commitment has left a lot to be desired  - so qualifications aren't everything!

Answer 7

the first one looks after their physical needs the second one assists a teacher with their educational needs