Level Three Early Years Educator

ISC group; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

The Rise Nursery at St Peter’s School York is opening in January 2027 and will operate 50 weeks a year, providing care for babies and children aged 6 months to 3 years. The post of Level Three Early Years Educator involves creating a safe, language-rich learning environment and working closely with families and colleagues.

You will join a teacher-led setting with a focus on curiosity, play, and the Reggio Emilia Inspired approach, supported by in-house training and a dedicated Nursery Manager.

Responsibilities

• Create a safe, stimulating, language-rich and child-led learning environment where babies and children thrive.
• Plan ‘in the moment’ in response to the play of babies and young children expanding the learning possibilities in creative and exciting ways.
• Be a devoted, compassionate and attuned keyperson.
• Assess and support children’s learning milestones and share these through our focus child approach with parents.
• Fully engage with our training programme and Curiosity Approach and Reggio Emilia Inspired philosophy.
• Be a committed, positive and collaborative member of the team, supporting new staff in the team and being a great team player.
• Offer thoughtful, unhurried and reassuring communication with parents and carers and build positive relationships with families.

Job description

Post: Level Three Early Years Educator

Department: The Rise Nursery

Responsible to: The Nursery Manager

Salary: £27,867 p.a. (Point 3 on the Support Pay Scale)

Working hours: 8am – 6pm, four days a week

Start date: January 2027 (with two weeks of in‑house training with our Nursery Manager prior to the Rise opening)

The Rise Nursery is part of St Peter’s School York and is due to open as a registered setting in January 2027. We will be open 50 weeks a year and offer exceptional childcare and education to babies and children aged 6 months- 3 years, with staffing of ratio plus one in each room. Our Nursery is planned and led by a qualified and highly experienced EYFS teacher and offers something very special to our families. We will have three beautifully and intentionally resourced rooms for our Wrens (youngest babies), Robins (older babies) and Finches (2–3-year-olds). We also have a separate kitchen and dining room, a library/sensory space and a large art studio with activities planned by our Atelierista.

Outside we have a beautiful large walled nursery garden, Forest School plus acres of school grounds and local parks and attractions to visit. Nurturing and respecting the individuality of every child is at the heart of all we do; we want our children to have the freedom to explore their own ideas and fascinations, and for practitioners to be calm and connected, responding to the children with joy, expertise, creativity and care.

The Rise will be a wonderful Teacher‑led nursery with a separate dining room, art studio and library and beautiful light‑filled children’s rooms in a large historic house. It will have support from a variety of School services to support the staff with focusing on the children. This will include Housekeeping services to ensure practitioners do not need to complete laundry, cleaning or washing up as well as other functions to support our staff.

What Your Role Involves: As a valued member of our team you will:

Create a safe, stimulating, language-rich and child‑led learning environment where babies and children thrive.

Plan ‘in the moment’ in response to the play of babies and young children expanding the learning possibilities in creative and exciting ways.

Be a devoted, compassionate and attuned keyperson.

Assess and support children’s learning milestones and share these through our focus child approach with parents.

Fully engage with our training programme and Curiosity Approach and Reggio Emilia Inspired philosophy.

Be a committed, positive and collaborative member of the team, supporting new staff in the team and being a great team player.

Offer thoughtful, unhurried and reassuring communication with parents and carers and build positive relationships with families.

General

1. Health & Safety - You have a legal duty to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of others and you are expected to be familiar with, and adhere to, St Peter’s School’s Health and Safety policy.

2. School values – You have a duty to ensure your work, communication and approach conforms to the school’s core values and mission. You will need to be aware and comply with school rules, policies and procedures at all times including, but not limited to, those relating to safeguarding, conduct, equality and data protection.

St Peter's School strives to be diverse and inclusive. We encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the school. The school is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and pupils. This means that employees are treated fairly, irrespective of sexual orientation, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, gender, marital status or other reason. The post holder is expected to always comply with the provisions set out in law and the St Peter's policies on equality and diversity.

The school is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Note: This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities associated with the post. The post holder will be expected to comply with any reasonable request to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.

This job description may be amended at any time.