Role: Ref 11014 - Early Years Practitioner Unqualified
Location: Norwich, Norfolk
Salary: £12.21 per hour
Contract/Hours: Casual (Shifts worked between 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday) - pick and choose when you work, around your study, family, retirement or home life!
Closing date: Midnight on 11h April 2025
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 15,000 national retailers' discounts
We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know…
About Spring
Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. It's 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.
A bit about the nursery
Spring Thorpe Hamlet is 57-place nursery in the heart of Norwich for children ages 3-months to 5-years. We pride ourselves on the warm, 'home from home' environment we provide, where children are encouraged and supported to become independent learners. Our highly dedicated staff take time to get to know parents and children to ensure all of their individual care and learning needs are met: our philosophy is to actively encourage the involvement of parents so we can achieve our aim of ensuring children grow to be confident, happy and resilient.
A bit about the role
We're looking for dedicated enthusiastic individuals to join our team. This role is perfect for someone flexible who can help cover a few hour blocks, especially during lunchtimes 11:30-14.30. The responsibilities include supervising and supporting children during mealtimes, assisting with meal preparation, and engaging children in plan learning activities to promote their development.
Experience with young children is preferred along with a passion for early childhood education flexibility to work on short notice is essential.
What you'll be doing
In the role of Early Years Practitioner Unqualified you'll be:
* Supervising the children and keep our active, flexible nursery environment safe and suited to their needs.
* Giving children a wide range of stimulating, safe and well-planned activities.
* Creating engaging, fun, and informative learning opportunities, helping the children make excellent progress and meet the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
* Building solid relationships with parents / carers, families and professionals involved with the children.
* Meeting each of the children's individual needs, keeping accurate records and regularly communicating with parents / carers.
* Having a positive attitude, making each day count for the children in our care.
What we need from you
In the role of Early Years Practitioner Unqualified, we're ideally looking for someone who has:
* A passion to learn and develop whether you are new to the sector or an experienced practitioner.
* Experience working with children in an early years or childcare environment.
* Understanding of children's emotional, physical, psychological, and educational developmental needs from 0 to 5 years.
* A positive attitude with an unwavering commitment to service excellence to allow us to maintain our high standards.
* A willingness to complete further childcare training & qualifications.
Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.
We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.
Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.
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 within 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.