Senior Early Years Educator (Nursery Room Leader)

Storal; Leicester; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£1,000 Welcome Bonus

Enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, and

PayCaptain advance pay option

Childcare Discount + Funding

Compassionate leave & enhanced MATERN/

Job summary

Storal is staffing a Senior Early Years Educator (Nursery Room Leader) at Birstall Nursery in Leicester. You will lead a team, deliver care to children, and foster safe, play-based learning.

With Level 3+ in early years and EYFS expertise, you will drive quality, supervise staff, maintain records, and collaborate with management to run the nursery. A £1,000 welcome bonus is offered.

Qualifications

• A Level 3 or above qualification within early years.
• Proven experience working as an Early Years Educator (Nursery Nurse/Practitioner).
• Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS.
• Excellent communication skills with both children and adults.
• Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together.

Responsibilities

• Deliver care to the children while supervising your team.
• Identify areas for improvements in learning and teaching techniques or creating more stimulating experiences.
• Ensure all record keeping requirements are regularly completed and conduct team appraisals.
• Work with other Room Leads and management to ensure the successful running of the nursery.

Skills

Communication skills

EYFS knowledge

Team supervision

Education

Level 3 or above in early years

Job description

Nursery - Children 1st Birstall Nursery School by Storal

Address - 1 Park Road, Birstall, Leicester LE4 3AX

Salary - £15 per hour

Hours - Full Time, Monday to Friday

Qualification - Must hold a Level 3 or above in early years

£1,000 Welcome Bonus

Remarkable Futures Start Here

Early Years Educators are you ready for a Senior role?

You’ll be joining BIRSTALL NURSERY as a key part of every child’s journey, keeping our children safe, loved and inspired through play-based learning.

Our nurseries are warm and nurturing environments that not only support children to be ready for school, but also equip them with all the life skills they need to flourish and succeed

How you’ll spend your time here

Day to day, you willdeliver care to the children whilst alsosupervising your team.

You’ll identify areas for improvements whether that relates tolearning and teaching techniques orcreating morestimulatingexperiences and environments. You will embrace inclusivity to ensure the individual needs of all those within your room are met.

You’ll beresponsible for ensuring all record keeping requirements are regularly completed, as well as conducting your team appraisals. As the Senior Early Years Educator (Nursery Room Leader) you will work in partnership with other Room Leads and the management team to ensure the successful running of the nursery.

We’d love to talk to you if you have the following

• A Level 3 or above qualification within early years
• Proven experience working as an Early Years Educator (Nursery Nurse/Practitioner)
• Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS
• Excellent communication skills with both children and adults
• Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together

Benefits for You

£1,000 Welcome Bonus

• For you - We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and you can access your pay before payday with PayCaptain
• Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity leave
• Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets
• Development - Investing in your future with micro-learning, financial stability tools & the Storal Support Fund
• Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team member app and Storal Awards

Storal sets the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.