Cover Early Years Educator

St Peter’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment by always complying with the school’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and Procedures. The successful applicant will be required to undergo statutory pre-employment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Post:
Cover Early Years Educator

Department:
The Rise Nursery

Responsible to:
The Nursery Manager

At St Peter’s School York, we are wishing to appoint a Cover Early Years Educator to join our highly skilled and supportive team. We are looking for a caring, creative and hard-working individual who ideally has relevant previous experience of working with children and a strong commitment to becoming an excellent practitioner in the future.

The Rise Nursery is part of St Peter’s School York and is due to open as a registered setting in January 2027. We will be open 50 weeks a year and offer exceptional childcare and education to babies and children aged 6 months- 3 years. Our Nursery is planned and led by a qualified and highly experienced EYFS teacher and offers something very special to our families.

We will have three beautifully and intentionally resourced rooms for our Wrens (youngest babies), Robins (older babies) and Finches (2-3 year olds). We also have a separate kitchen and dining room, a library/sensory space and a large art studio led by a full time art specialist. Outside we have a beautiful large walled nursery garden, Forest School plus acres of school grounds and local parks and attractions to visit.

Nurturing and respecting the individuality of every child is at the heart of all we do; we want our children to have the freedom to explore their own ideas and fascinations, and for practitioners to be calm and connected responding to the children with joy, expertise, creativity and care.

From September – January you will be working in our current Nursery setting at St Peter’s School with the Finches class (2-3 year olds) before moving to the Rise Nursery in January.

The Rise will be a wonderful Teacher-led nursery with a separate dining room, art studio and library and beautiful light-filled children’s rooms in a large historic house. It will have support from a variety of School services to support the staff with focusing on the children. This will include Housekeeping services to ensure practitioners do not need to complete laundry, cleaning or washing up as well as other functions to support our staff.

As a valued member of our team, you’ll:

• Help create a safe, stimulating, language-rich and child-led learning environment where babies and children thrive
• Plan 'in the moment' in response to the play of babies and young children expanding the learning possibilities in creative and exciting ways
• Be a devoted, compassionate and attuned keyperson
• Assess and support children’s learning milestones and share these through our focus child approach with parents
• Fully engage with our training programme and Curiosity Approach and Reggio Emilia Inspired philosophy
• Be a committed, positive and collaborative member of the team and a great team player
• Offer thoughtful, unhurried and reassuring communication with parents and carers and build positive relationships with families