Early Years Educator

About Early Years Ltd.; Runcorn; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare discount

Career progression

Pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Birthday leave

Sick pay enhanced

Bereavement leave

Referral bonus

Employee assistance

Job summary

The Alliance is recruiting an Early Years Educator to join the team at Brookvale Nursery in Runcorn. The role focuses on delivering high-quality inclusive early years education and care for children, with a supportive, family-centered setting.

You will be part of a friendly team, with significant training, progression opportunities, and staff benefits, including generous leave and wellbeing support.

Qualifications

• Minimum Level 3 Early Years Education and Childcare Qualification or equivalent.
• Proven post-qualification experience of working with children.

Responsibilities

• Provide creative and engaging learning opportunities for children.
• Be a proactive member of the team, providing a safe, stimulating, and inclusive environment.
• Support the nursery management team to deliver high-quality care and education in line with the setting’s policies and procedures.

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for Early Years Educators to join our team at Brookvale Nursery in Runcorn. Rated 9.2 by Ofsted and Good on Day Nurseries.

We are looking for skilled early years educators who will offer our children high quality inclusive early years education and care.

We take great pride in being a friendly, inclusive setting that put children and their families at the heart of our practice and provide excellent promotion and progression opportunities for our staff team.

What we offer:

The Alliance prides itself on being a supportive workplace and offers significant benefits for our team members including:

• 100% discount on childcare and early education places (applicable to staff working in our early years settings)
• Extensive training and career progression planning, including access to our Learning Management System (LMS)
• The Alliance has invested in FAMLY reducing paperwork and giving you more time to focus on the children.
• A generous workplace pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, with additional annual leave for long service.
• Birthday leave so you can have a day off for your birthday dedicated to you and your well being
• Enhanced sickness pay and paid bereavement leave
• A Recruitment Referral Payment Scheme, giving you an introductory payment of up to £300 if someone you have referred to the Alliance takes up a role in the charity.
• Access to our Employee Assistant Programme (EAP), which includes 24/7 helpline access, dedicated managers helpline, confidential counselling sessions delivered by accredited specialists, legal, debt and life management advice, discounts, and wellbeing content plus resources.
• A dedicated mental health First aider to support your mental well being

Job purpose:

As Early Years Educator, you will:

• provide creative and engaging learning opportunities for children.
• be a proactive member of the team, providing a safe, stimulating, and inclusive environment
• support the nursery management team to deliver high-quality care and education in line with the setting’s policies and procedures.

Requirements:

Successful applicants for the Early Years Educator position will need:

• a minimum Level 3 or above Early Years Education and Childcare Qualification or equivalent.
• proven post-qualification experience of working with children.

Also, you will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check, if your current certificate is not subscribed to the update service.

Hours per week: 40

Weeks per year: 52

Interview date: Wednesday 23rd September 2026