Senior Nursery Practitioner

Bright Kids was established in 1999 and since has been delivering high quality childcare by promoting learning through stimulating, creative play activities. Due to our continuing growth we are currently in search of motivated, happy, enthusiastic individuals who can bring passion, creativity, laughter and learning into our authentic homely environments across the West Midlands to support our wonderful little Einsteins.

We are seeking a Senior Nursery Practitioner who is Level 3 (or above!) qualified in Early Years on a permanent basis for our setting in Studley, Warwickshire.

• Training, training and more training (seriously that is not meant to sound like lots of extra work but we really do care about your future career and therefore offer comprehensive learning and development plans and readily available access to a range of training courses).
• We care about you and your wellbeing! At Bright Kids, you are not just a number but an individual who is to be celebrated and that’s why we offer an excellent health cash plan to support your physical, mental and financial health such as gym discounts, access to counselling and advice lines a GP doctorline plus discounts on major high street brands with the shopping reward system. And the wellbeing doesn’t stop there! We also have wellbeing champions at all our sites to support our staff, signpost to more professional help and be a listening ear, as well as keeping us stocked up on healthy snacks and informing us on company wellbeing activities. We also have 2 trained mental health first aiders for that little extra support if needed.
• Flexible working. Yes we have to be open 51 weeks of the year and offer childcare services from 7.30am to 6pm Monday to Friday but we do appreciate the need for flexible hours. Therefore we are always open to flexible working arrangements where possible – just ask us!
• Quarterly Team Target awards. The passion and enthusiasm shown by our teams are what keeps us growing and the more children we get to care for, the more rewards our team gets! These rewards include team meals out, shopping vouchers and extra holidays!
• Plus all the usual extras like holidays, pensions, bonuses, uniform.

We are an established company and have been providing childcare services for over 26 years. As such we are pretty good at what we do and our sister training company MBK Early Years was born out of this expertise and knowledge, providing training and consultancy externally across the sector. This means our staff have access to high quality, up to date training from the basics required such as Paediatric First Aid to training that will broaden your knowledge such as Building Self-Regulation in Early Years and Delivering Awe and Wonder – Building Curiosity.

• Be level 3 qualified (or above) in Early Years.
• Have a passion for the development of children.
• Be a team player with a commitment to supporting the whole team.
• Have a great sense of creativity to develop an excellent range of activities for our children.
• Be prepared to go home at the end of the day covered in green paint as you have just made the biggest and best alien ever!
• Be prepared to have lots of fun and laugh all day long as well as having a masters degree in hugs.
• And go home with jaw ache every day from smiling too much.

While our positions are ideally full-time on a rotating shift pattern between 7.30am-6.00pm Monday to Friday, we are happy to discuss part time and flexible working pattern options. Salary: Up to £27,760.00 per annum (subject to age, experience and qualification held and includes attendance bonus scheme). Subsidised Childcare up to 50% off fees. The subsidised childcare offers 50% off childcare fees for fee paying staff members until funded hours are provided. At this point the discount becomes 25% off any remaining nursery fees after the funded hours are deducted. First month nursery fees are free of charge (please note if a successful probationary period is not completed, this monthly fee will be owed to the nursery).

Benefits: Health Cash Plan, Bonuses, Uniform, Company Pension, Flexible Working, Subsidised Childcare, Additional Birthday Holiday after 1 year, Long-service holiday entitlements available, Company events, Access to wellbeing and mental health first aiders, Comprehensive learning and development plans, training courses, Quarterly team target awards including team meals, shopping vouchers, additional holidays and team treats.

Successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check prior to commencement.

If this is the perfect job for you, please click apply and get your jaw muscles ready for all that smiling that’s about to happen!

Safeguarding Statement: Studley Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff and volunteers to understand and share this commitment. We have a shared commitment to develop a culture of respect, where discrimination is not tolerated. We welcome all applications, including those from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.