Early Years Learning in England

Nursery: Long Eaton, Nottingham/ Hybrid –
Hours: Full Time, Monday to Friday 40 hours
Salary: Up to £35,000 (dependent on experience and qualifications)
Benefits:
This position is part of Storal, a distinguished group of nurseries across England.
We pride ourselves on being the nursery group of choice for families and educators, fostering a community where everyone thrives through high standards and supportive collaboration.
As a
Learning & Practice Partner
, you will support the L&P Manager in creating, delivering, and evaluating high-quality learning experiences for early years educators across our nurseries.
You will act as a vital link between our nurseries, Learning & Practice, and People teams — ensuring training is
consistent, impactful, and aligned
with Storal\’s pedagogy, curriculum, and development pathways.
Meaningful Relationships
Building strong, trusted relationships is central to this role.
You will work closely with:
Educators and nursery managers
People and Education teams
Subject matter experts across the business
You will be the
primary point of contact for nurseries during visits
, supporting teams to identify strengths, gaps, and training needs, while ensuring learning content is accurate, relevant, and values-led.
What You\’ll Be Doing
Learning & Development
Gather videos, photos, and real practice examples to support digital and blended learning
Support the creation and ongoing development of online learning modules
Deliver engaging workshops, coaching sessions, and modelled practice
Support the mapping, monitoring, and progression of learning pathways
Quality & Impact
Share insights from nursery visits to inform training priorities
Evaluate the impact of training and gather meaningful feedback
Monitor mandatory training compliance and quality standards
Use Quality Visit and Storal Framework Audit trends to support performance improvement
Collaboration
Support Learning & Development events
Deputise for the L&P Manager when required
Objectives & Impact
Through your work, you will:
Ensure consistent, high-quality professional development across all settings
Strengthen educator confidence, skills, and pedagogy
Align training with
EYFS, Ofsted, and Storal\’s curriculum
Support continuous improvement using quality and audit data
Improve onboarding, retention, and foster a strong learning culture
What You\’ll Need
Early Years experience with strong
EYFS and Ofsted knowledge
Confidence delivering training, facilitating groups, and coaching educators
Experience supporting CPD or training programmes
Ability to create, gather, and adapt learning content
Strong communication, organisation, and relationship-building skills
Why Join Storal?
At Storal, learning is central to everything we do.
You\’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive community that values individuality, collaboration, and continuous growth — where your work directly impacts children, educators, and outcomes across our nurseries.
Benefits at a glance
For you -We get the basics right
enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain
Family matters –
Balance starts at home
Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)
Health & wellness –
Nourishing body & mind
Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more
Development –
Investing in your future
Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund
Our community –
Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.
We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge
We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.
And much much more
We care about our people.
Curious to know more?
We\’d love to tell you more about what makes Storal so special.
Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience.
We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously.
As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.
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