drjobs Senior Early Years Practitioner

Senior Early Years Practitioner

Employer Active

1 Vacancy
drjobs

Job Alert

You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Valid email field required
Send jobs
Send me jobs like this
drjobs

Job Alert

You will be updated with latest job alerts via email

Valid email field required
Send jobs
Job Location drjobs

Exeter - UK

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

drjobs

Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Description

Role: Ref 11630 Senior Early Years Practitioner

Location: Exeter Devon

Salary:Up to 27200 per annum

Contract/Hours:Permanent Full Time 40 hours per week

Closing date: Midnight on 30th July

Benefits:

  • 25 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
  • 60% discount on childcare within our nurseries and clubs
  • Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
  • Flexible maternity adoption and paternity packages
  • Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
  • Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15000 national retailers discounts

Were thrilled that youre considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes and well tell you what you need to know


About Spring

Spring offers award-winning childcare services as part of the national charity Action for Children. Its our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn have fun and make friends in our bright engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team. Join us and you can look forward to:

  • A kind caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing both physical and mental.
  • Flexible working wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
  • Lots of opportunities for training learning development including gaining qualifications.
  • Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.

About the nursery

Spring Cedars is an established nursery in Exeter with a home from home environment. We cater for 46 children per day from babies to 4 years with a dedicated and highly qualified team who are passionate about childrens well-being. We work together to create a fun learning environment that encourages children to be curious discover and grow through the provision of natural and open-ended resources.

We are looking to expand our team with the right candidate who will play a vital role in shaping young minds and creating a nurturing environment where our children flourish.

We are looking for someone to join our impassioned and supportive team this is a nursery where career progression is supported and encouraged.

About the role

When you join us youll be part of a passionate and creative team committed to giving the highest standards of care and education and helping children to find their feet making friends having fun and sparking their imaginations through play.

In the role of Senior Early Years Practitioner youll be allowing the children to explore and discover their own creativity individuality and imagination within our bright engaging and safe environments. It goes without saying that you need to love being around children and will have the ambition to make a direct and positive impact on their young lives.

What youll be doing

In the role of Senior Early Years Practitioner youll be:

  • Leading the staff within the room on providing learning programmes for individual or groups of children appropriate to their needs and developmental stages in accordance with Early Years legislation and guidance.
  • Ensuring the compliance and application of nursery policies and procedures and relevant legislative requirements informing management immediately of any instances of non-compliance or variations in practices.
  • Contributing to and participating in the wider nursery management through leading on specific areas of development within the nursery as directed by the Nursery Manager.
  • Preparing and supervising dedicated areas/rooms within the setting on specific working patterns through planning monitoring of outcomes managing ratio of children and the provision of a stimulating and appropriate range of activities whilst ensuring health and care needs are met.

What we need from you

In the role of Senior Early Years Practitioner were ideally looking for someone who has:

  • Level 3 early years and childcare qualification e.g. NNEB CACHE NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education.
  • A thorough knowledge of childrens developmental needs from 0 to 5 years.
  • Experience working and leading in an early year setting.
  • Strong planning observation and reflection of children and their learning.
  • Effective communication skills across multiple age groups.
  • Paediatric First Aid qualification.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey wed love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Good luck! We cant wait to hear from you.

Contact: If you need support with your application please contact our Recruitment Team at quoting the above Reference.

Well be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion

At Spring Oscars were dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We arecommittedto safer recruitment practices to protectourservice users; therefore all applicants are expected tohaveanunderstandingof andcommitmenttosafeguarding best-practice.

Dont meet every single requirement

If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with the job description wed love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role or another role within the Action for Children family.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for thisrole.

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details CV Supporting Statement & Information Equality & Diversity Submission & Declaration please refer to the Job Description when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.


Talent Pool:Were sure youve got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If youre unsuccessful this time around wed like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if youd rather we didnt do that.

Want to know more about Spring and Oscars

Check out our socials onX (Twitter) LinkedinFacebookor Youtube.

See below for further information about working with us:

Employee Reward Booklet

Spring Early Years Career Pathway

Job Description




Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type

Full-Time

About Company

Report This Job
Disclaimer: Drjobpro.com is only a platform that connects job seekers and employers. Applicants are advised to conduct their own independent research into the credentials of the prospective employer.We always make certain that our clients do not endorse any request for money payments, thus we advise against sharing any personal or bank-related information with any third party. If you suspect fraud or malpractice, please contact us via contact us page.