Children 1st Acorns Nursery School

Nursery Educators Children 1st Acorns Nursery School Senior Early Years Educator

Nursery: Children 1st Acorns Nursery School Draycott Rd, Tean, Stoke-on-Trent ST10 4JJ

Hours: Full Time 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary: Up to £13.90 per hour, depending on experience and qualifications.

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

Early Years Educators are you ready for a Senior role?

To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life.

You’ll be joining Acorns team of Early years Educators, who have an incredibly important job of supporting children’s development. You’ll be a key part of every child’s journey, keeping our children safe, loved and inspired through play-based learning.

Day to day, you will deliver care to the children whilst also supervising your team.

You’ll identify areas for improvements whether that relates to learning and teaching techniques or, creating more stimulating experiences and environments. You will embrace inclusivity to ensure the individual needs of all those within your room are met.

You’ll be responsible 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.

• 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

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

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 Pay Captain

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 comes 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 thorough compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.