Early Years Practitioner Level 3

Role: Ref 12255 - Early Years Practitioner Level 3

Location: Sandwich Kent

Salary:Up to£25,400 per annum

Contract/Hours:Permanent Full Time - 40 hours per week

Closing date: Midnight on 5th July 2024

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• 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 role

Spring St Barts is an established nursery in Sandwich for over 20 years providing high quality education for children up to the age of 11 across both nursery and out of school setting. The nursery is located in a beautiful grade 2 listed manor house situated within an acre of land, with a Forest School on one of our gardens. We have dedicated Physical Activity and Nutritional coordinator, as well as staff trained in Boogie Mites, providing children learning opportunities through music and movement, and offer Baby Ballet sessions for all ages. We are looking for someone to join our impassioned and supportive team this is a nursery where career progression is supported and encouraged.

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

About you

In the role of Early Years Practitioner Level 3 we're ideally looking for someone who has:

• A Level 3Early 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 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.

Application Process

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration - please refer to the JD and Person Specification when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

Talent Pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.