Early Years Practitioner Level 3 (10432) Taunton, England
Salary: GBP24300 - GBP25400 per annum
Role: Ref 10432 – Early Years Practitioner Level 3
Location: Taunton, Somerset
Salary: Up to £25,400 per annum
Contract/Hours: Permanent Full Time – 40 hours per week (Part Time and Casual also available)
Closing date: Midnight on 4th December 2024
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
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.
A bit about the role
Spring Wellsprings is a 45-place nursery offering affordable, high-quality childcare in Somerset. At Spring Nursery Wellsprings, the team ensures children feel happy and settled, offering a huge variety of activities, opportunities to grow and socialise. The nursery prides itself on creating child-led opportunities for babies and children to learn, develop confidence and have fun providing high-quality childcare.
What you’ll be doing
In the role of Early Years Practitioner Level 3, you'll be:
* Supervising children and keeping 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, to help children make excellent progress in 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 every single day count for the children in our care.
What we need from you
In the role of Early Years Practitioner Level 3, we're ideally looking for someone who has:
* A Level 3 Early Years and Childcare qualification e.g. NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education or equivalent which is essential for the role.
* A passion to learn and develop whether you are newly qualified or an experienced practitioner.
* Full 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.
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.
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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