Early Years Practitioner

Early Years Practitioner (Level
3)

Location: Norwich

Salary
: up to £27,300 per annum

Contract/

Hours:

Permanent/Full Time – 40 hours per week.

Closing date: Midnight on the 3rd of September 2026

Benefits:

• Time off to recharge – 25 days per annum plus bank holidays
• Treat yourself: Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15,000 + retailers.
• Salary Finance – access to financial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary.
• Childcare Discount – A whopping 60% off childcare within our nurseries and out of school clubs
• Up to 3 Days Dependency Leave – to care for dependents in an emergency.
• Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity
  leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Secure your future: Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.

An opportunity for a qualified Early Years Practitioner to provide high-quality care, education and support to children within our nursery.

This role requires you to promote children’s learning and development through purposeful play and engaging experiences, while ensuring their individual needs are recognised and supported. You will maintain strong professional relationships with children, families and colleagues, contribute to accurate observations and learning records, and work in line with safeguarding, health and safety and Early Years Foundation Stage requirements.

We are looking for a Level 3 qualified practitioner who is reliable, professional and passionate about delivering high standards of practice and positive outcomes.

In the role of Early Years Practitioner (Level
3), we're ideally looking for someone who has:

• A Level 3 Early Years and Childcare qualification (NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 2 or 3 or equivalent)
• Experience in planning and delivering educational programmes for children aged 0 to 5, tailored to their individual needs and developmental stages.
• The ability to observe, guidance support less experienced colleagues, helping them to develop their skills.
• Experience applying effective communication techniques with children and their families.
• Knowledge of children's emotional, physical, psychological, and educational development from 0-5 years
• Awareness and understanding of special educational needs (SEN) and how these are supported in an early year setting.

Spring Thorp Hamlet is a warm, welcoming setting in Norwich, rated Good by Ofsted. With the care for children aged 3 months to five years, our setting offers bright and spacious indoor learning areas, well-resourced nursery rooms, and a secure outdoor environment that encourages exploration, creativity, and physical development including a separate forest school area encouraging independence, exploration and a love of nature.

Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright, engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team.

• A kind, caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing, both physical and mental.
• Flexible working – wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
• Lots of opportunities for training, learning, development, including gaining qualifications.
• Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.

Ready to make a difference in the lives of children? Whether you're looking for a career change or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you!

At Spring Oscars we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.

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