Senior Nursery Practitioner

Nuffield Health Brentwood; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare charity as a Senior Nursery Practitioner in Gloucester. You will manage a small team, delivering high-quality education and care while promoting health and wellbeing for young children. This role offers a competitive salary, benefits including gym membership, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Free Gym membership

Discount off Nuffy Bear Day Nurseries

Company Pension Scheme

Training and Development opportunities

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Qualified to NVQ Level 3 in childcare studies or equivalent.
• Experience working in a nursery setting with children.
• Preferred paediatric first aid qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team ensuring high standards.
• Deliver care and education to children aged 3 months to 5 years.
• Implement current legislation and safeguarding policies.

Skills

Team Leadership

Communication

Child Development

Health and Wellbeing Promotion

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Childcare Studies or equivalent

Tools

DBS Check

Job description

Senior Nursery Practitioner

Gloucester FWC | Childcare | Permanent | Full time

Up to £28,643.63 per annum, depending on experience

40 hours per week

Our Nuffy Bear Day Nursery is seeking a Senior Early years Educator/Senior Nursery Nurse to be based at our nursery located in our Nuffield Health gym.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of the brilliant nurseries inside the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. We’re looking for the right person to join us here and help ensure the best mix of high-quality care, learning and play.

As a Senior Early Years Educator it’s important that you’re qualified to NVQ Level 3 in childcare studies (or equivalent) and you have experience of working in a nursery setting.

As a Senior Practitioner, you will:

• Lead a small team, ensuring the highest standards are maintained
• Help deliver full day care, sessional care and pre-school for ages 3 months to 5 years
• Promote health and wellbeing, helping children achieve the best possible start in life
• Ensure that learning is linked to every child’s development
• Maintain great communication with parents, carers and external professionals
• Be aware of and implement current legislation, know and implement safeguarding policies and procedures

The Person

To succeed as a Senior Nursery Practitioner, you will need:

• Will be qualified to a NVQ Level 3 in childcare studies or equivalent
• Have experience in a Nursery setting, and have work with children
• Preferred paediatric first aid qualifications
• All candidate will require an enhanced DBS

Helping you feel good.

We promise that we will support you with training opportunities, career development options and our unique health & wellbeing focused benefits package.

This includes:

• Free Gym membership across all our Fitness & Wellbeing clubs,

• Discount off Nuffy Bear Day Nurseries.
• Company Pension Scheme
• Training and Development opportunities

We will also offer a range of lifestyle and financial wellbeing benefits. We want to help you live well and get the balance right in life, so we will give you 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and this will increase as you build your career with us, plus much more.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as wereceive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.