Early Years Educator

Royal Devon; Exeter; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Blue Light Card

Health Service Discounts

Salary Sacrifice

Car Lease

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work

Onsite Nursery Exeter

Job summary

Royal Devon in Exeter runs an NHS nursery on site, delivering high-quality care in a welcoming environment for children aged 0–5.

This permanent role supports a busy team, ensuring clean, safe spaces for learning and play, while offering a competitive salary, generous leave, and a range of staff benefits.

Join us to help NHS colleagues and their families, with flexible working schemes and ongoing development opportunities at the Wonford site.

Job description

It’s set on our Wonford site in a purpose built, spacious building and generous outdoor spaces – a perfect setting for fun, play, and learning! Which is reflected in our Ofsted Outstanding Provider rating and the happy children who attend from 3 months to 5 years old.

Our mission is to ensure that children’s wellbeing and development is central to all that we do .

We promote learning in a fun, stimulating, language-rich environment, nurtured through play and meaningful interactions; following children’s interests to motivate and inspire them to become active learners.

We recognise the importance of the roles that our parents have in supporting the NHS , so it is important to us that our parents can attend their place of work, knowing that their child’s individual needs are met, and that they are being cared and supported to learn and develop to meet their full potential, in a way that is unique to them.

About the Role

For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.

More detail about the role

Are you an experienced Room Lead ready for a new challenge or an Early Years Educator looking for the next step in your career ? Join our Ofsted Outstanding rated First Steps NHS Nursery team !

We’d love to hear from Early Years Educators with a passion for nurturing and developing children and your colleagues as they grow . In return, we offer a rewarding career , working in amazing facilities, where you can make a difference to the children of NHS colleagues, plus you’ll receive a brilliant package of benefits .

We care for up to 129 children a day in five rooms with access to our different outdoor play spaces which include:

• a large Astroturf area
• a spacious woodland area
• Breakfast club 7.00am – 8.00am
• Core hours are 8.00am – 6.00pm

As a Room Lead , Early Years Educator , you’ll use your creative flare and organisation skills to support your team to deliver a brilliant programme of fun , inclusive , learning activities for the children around their interests and care needs .

Drawing upon your knowledge of the Foundation Stage curriculum to develop theskills of the team within your room. You’ll encourage the use of our fantastic outdoor spaces to benefit the children by experiencing different environments and developing their sense of the world and themselves.

The working day is extremely rewarding and involves both child and adult led learning opportunities with the children. Examples of these activities including sharing stories, dressing up, ‘ messy play ’, games, and above all, instilling a sense of fun !

• Be part of the team that creates a nurturing environment and delivers high standards of care and education
• Plan , implement and evaluate activities to support the care and development of children attending our nursery
• Encourage best practices and the development of staff knowledge and skills
• Ensure safeguarding standards are maintained
• Support to all other Childcare Services provision as required

A b o u t y o u

We’d love to hear from Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more

It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.

Looking after you is important to us.

We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.

If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.

You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.

We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.

This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.

Salary is not the only financial benefit

You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:

• National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
• Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
• Car lease schemes.
• The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
• Cycle to work scheme

These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.

• Salary Band 3: £25,760- £27,476 per annum pro rata + 10% RRP up to 31st March 2027
• Frequency Annual
• Vacancy Reference 185-63303-14156
• Contract Type Permanent
• Closing Date 17 September, 2026
• Job Category Cleaning & Facilities