Senior Early Years Practitioner

Senior Early Years Practitioner (Room Lead)

Location:Witham

Salary:up to 28000 per annum

Contract/Hours:Permanent/Full Time 40 hours per week

Closing date:Midnight on the 22^nd May 2026

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leaveplusbank holidays
• Professional qualifications and excellent training
• Flexible maternity adoption and paternity packages
• Up to5% employer contributionandlife assurance cover
• Blue Light Card eligibility withdiscounts at15000 national retailers

About the role

As a Senior Early Years Practitioner youll play a key role in the nurserys daily routine leading your room to deliver high quality early years education and care for all children. You will plan implement and review engaging activities that promote learning and development in line with the EYFS ensuring every child thrives in a safe stimulating and inclusive environment.

In this role you will support and guide other practitioners model best practise and help maintain strong positive partnership with parents and carers. Youll be responsible for completing accurate and up-to-date observations assessments and records.

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.
• Support children with emerging or established special educational needs working closely with familys staff external agencies and professionals to ensure each childs needs are understood and met
• 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.

About the nursery

Spring Harlequin is a 37-place nursery care for children from birth to 7 years offering full-day sessions and wrap around care with breakfast and after-school fun. It offers a home-from-home environment where children are encouraged to play explore and grow at their own pace guided by caring practitioners who help them become confident curious learners.

As a Senior practitioner youll join our dynamic team working together to support each childs learning to ensure each day is fun and engaging.

Why Spring Nurseries

Imagine a place where laughter echoes imaginations run wild and every day is new adventure. At Spring Nurseries where more than a collection of settings we are a family dedicated to nurturing children to thrive and supporting staff through a clear career pathway.

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 RecruitmentService@quoting reference 13098 .

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.

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See below for further information about working with us:

Employee Reward Booklet

Spring Early Years Career Pathway

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