Senior Early Years Practitioner in Bere Alston

Location: Winlaton, Blaydon on Tyne

Salary: £27,300 per annum pro rata (depending on experience)

Contract/Hours: Permanent/Part Time – 20 hours per week

Benefits:

• Time off to recharge – 25 days plus bank holidays
• 24/7 Confidential Helpline – speak to trained counsellors any time, 365 days a year, for emotional, wellbeing or mental health support.
• Enhanced Wellbeing – 8 sessions In-Person, Phone, or Online Counselling or CBT
• Treat yourself – Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15,000 & retailers
• Childcare Discount – Enjoy 60% off childcare within our nurseries and out of school clubs
• Up to 3 Days Dependency Leave – to care for dependents in an emergency.
• Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave
• Gain professional qualifications – with excellent training/development opportunities
• Salary Finance – access to financial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary
• Secure your future – Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover

About the nursery:

Spring Blaydon is a small, cosy nursery set within the grounds of a local primary school, offering a warm and welcoming environment where children feel safe, valued and ready to learn. The team plays a strong emphasis on storytelling, songs and rhymes, creating a language rich setting that supports early communication and the love of learning from the very start. The team work closely together to provide a nurturing, play based curriculum where every child is encouraged to explore, develop independence and thrive at their own pace.

About the role:

We're looking for a Senior Early Years Practitioner to play a key leadership role within our nursery. In this position, you'll support the development, well-being in care of children across the setting while guiding and inspiring colleagues around you. As Senior Practitioner, you'll take responsibility for the day-to-day running of your designated room, ensuring a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment where every child can thrive. You'll be a role model for best practice, supporting staff development and maintaining high standards of care and education in line with the regulatory requirements and on nursery values.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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:

• Level 3 early years and childcare qualification e.g., NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education.
• A thorough knowledge of children's 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, we'd love to hear from you.

If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at RecruitmentService@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13165.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion:

At Spring Oscars we’re 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 in this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles. We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.