Early Years Practitioner

Role: Ref 11119 - Early Years Practitioner

Location: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear

Salary: Up to £26,499 per annum

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Full Time - 40 hours per week (September 2026)

Closing date: Midnight on 24th 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

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.

About the nursery

Spring Blaydon is a 54-place stimulating, caring and nurturing nursery, which provides high-quality care and education for children from 0 months to 5 years, situated in Park Head school with outstanding views over the surrounding rural area of Winlaton. We are a dedicated and highly qualified team who are passionate about children's well-being. We are looking for a confident candidate to join our nursery, it goes without saying that you need to love being around children and will have the ambition to make a direct and positive impact on their young lives.

In the role of Early Years Practitioner, you'll be allowing the children to explore and discover their own creativity, individuality, and imagination within our bright, engaging and safe environments.

What you'll be doing

• 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

• 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.

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.