Early Years Learning & Practice Partner

Nursery: Long Eaton, Nottingham/ Hybrid -
Hours: Full Time, Monday to Friday 40 hours
Salary: Up to £35,000 (dependent on experience and qualifications)
Benefits:

This position is part of Storal, a distinguished group of nurseries across England. We pride ourselves on being the nursery group of choice for families and educators, fostering a community where everyone thrives through high standards and supportive collaboration.

As a Learning & Practice Partner, you will support the L&P Manager in creating, delivering, and evaluating high-quality learning experiences for early years educators across our nurseries.

You will act as a vital link between our nurseries, Learning & Practice, and People teams - ensuring training is consistent, impactful, and aligned with Storal's pedagogy, curriculum, and development pathways.

Meaningful Relationships

Building strong, trusted relationships is central to this role. You will work closely with:

• Educators and nursery managers

• People and Education teams

• Subject matter experts across the business

You will be the primary point of contact for nurseries during visits, supporting teams to identify strengths, gaps, and training needs, while ensuring learning content is accurate, relevant, and values-led.

What You'll Be Doing Learning & Development

• Gather videos, photos, and real practice examples to support digital and blended learning

• Support the creation and ongoing development of online learning modules

• Deliver engaging workshops, coaching sessions, and modelled practice

• Support the mapping, monitoring, and progression of learning pathways

Quality & Impact

• Share insights from nursery visits to inform training priorities

• Evaluate the impact of training and gather meaningful feedback

• Monitor mandatory training compliance and quality standards

• Use Quality Visit and Storal Framework Audit trends to support performance improvement

Collaboration

• Support Learning & Development events

• Deputise for the L&P Manager when required

Objectives & Impact

Through your work, you will:

1. Ensure consistent, high-quality professional development across all settings

2. Strengthen educator confidence, skills, and pedagogy

3. Align training with EYFS, Ofsted, and Storal's curriculum

4. Support continuous improvement using quality and audit data

5. Improve onboarding, retention, and foster a strong learning culture

What You'll Need

• Early Years experience with strong EYFS and Ofsted knowledge

• Confidence delivering training, facilitating groups, and coaching educators

• Experience supporting CPD or training programmes

• Ability to create, gather, and adapt learning content

• Strong communication, organisation, and relationship-building skills

Why Join Storal?

At Storal, learning is central to everything we do. You'll be part of a supportive, inclusive community that values individuality, collaboration, and continuous growth - where your work directly impacts children, educators, and outcomes across our nurseries.

Benefits at a glance

For you -We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain

Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more

Development - Investing in your future Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

Our community - Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge

We partner with world leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much much more

We care about our people.

Curious to know more?

We'd love to tell you more about what makes Storal so special.

Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.