Qualified Nursery Practitioner

Footsteps Nursery Stratford

Permanent Monday - Friday I 40 hours per week - up to £13:61 p/h

Footsteps Stratford-upon-Avon offer a broad range of activities and resources for children to explore and expand their natural curiosity and to learn through play. The nursery love the great outdoors, and it nursery features open spaces for each of our age groups, and our children enjoy outdoor learning in our bespoke forest school facility.

What we're looking for:

• Deliver engaging learning experiences for a key group, supporting children's development and progress
  
• Work collaboratively to ensure children's safety, wellbeing, and high-quality learning environments
  
• Build strong partnerships with parents and contribute to positive outcomes for every child
  
• Assess, track, and report on children's development in line with EYFS
  
• Bring a fun, caring, and enthusiastic approach, with a commitment to your own professional development.
  

Requirements:

• Passion for working in childcare
  
• Sound knowledge of EYFS
  
• Relevant Level 3 qualification (e.g. NVQ, CACHE, BTEC, NNEB, EY Educator)
  
• Flexibility to work shifts between 7:30am-6:00pm ( up to 40 hours per week)
  

Why Join Us?

Annual leave: 24 days' holiday, plus bank holidays and an extra paid day off for your birthday

Childcare discount: 75% off nursery fees for team members

Wellbeing support: Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme helpline

Learning and development: Tailored training and development opportunities to support your career growth

Pension: Company pension scheme

Employee discounts: Access to Perkaboo employee discounts

Mentoring: Employee mentoring programme

Health and wellbeing: Dedicated health and wellbeing support

Refer a Friend scheme: Earn up to £750 through our referral programme

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.

Footsteps Nursery Stratford is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.