Senior Early Years Practitioner

Storal; Sudbury; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance related bonus

50% childcare discount

Wellness day

Welcome bonus

Job summary

Storal's Sunshine Nursery School in Sudbury is seeking a Senior Early Years Educator (Nursery Room Leader) to guide a room and support the team in a play-based learning environment.

You'll deliver care to children, supervise staff, and drive improvements in teaching and record-keeping, ensuring safeguarding and EYFS compliance while partnering with the management team.

Qualifications

• A Level 3+ qualification in early years.
• Proven experience as an Early Years Educator.
• Knowledge of the EYFS framework.
• Excellent communication with children and adults.

Responsibilities

• Deliver care to children while supervising your team.
• Identify areas for improvement in learning techniques and experiences.
• Support inclusivity and meet individual needs in your room.
• Ensure record-keeping and conduct team appraisals.
• Collaborate with management to run the nursery effectively.

Skills

Early Years experience

Education

Level 3 (or above) in Early Years

Job description

Nursery: Sunshine Nursery School, 8 Warner Way, Chilton Industrial Estate, Sudbury, CO10 2GG

Hours: Full Time, Monday-Friday

Salary: Up to £14 per hour (depends on qualification and qualification)

Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much much more

Welcome Bonus: £1000

Remarkable Futures Start HereEarly Years Educators are you ready for a Senior role?

You’ll be joining Sunshine 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

• 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

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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.
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