Early Years Practitioner Level 3

Role: Ref 10983 - Early Years Practitioner Level 3

Location: Taunton, Somerset

Salary: Up to £26,499 per annum

Contract/Hours: Permanent Full Time - 40 hours per week

Closing date: Midnight on 9th April 2025

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
• 60% discount on childcare within our nurseries and clubs
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers' discounts

About Spring

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. Join us and you can look forward to:

• 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.

A bit about the nursery

We have three Spring nurseries in the Taunton area: Spring The Hollies, Spring Bishops Hull, and Spring Wellsprings.

Please note which location you'd prefer to work with in your Supporting Statement, if you have a preference.

Spring The Hollies is a 50-place nursery based in the centre of Taunton, Somerset which was purpose built, offering three well-resourced rooms and a fantastic spacious outdoor space for children aged 3-months to 5-years, all of which have been completely renovated in September 2024.

Spring Bishops Hull is a small and friendly setting next to Bishops Hull Primary School. Our team takes pride in creating a warm and welcoming environment for children of all aged 3 months - 5 years. We are a friendly bubbly team, who take pride in our jobs. We enjoy lots of outdoor play, and messy activities. We take pride in our parent relationships and enjoy hearing about home life from the children. At the end of the day, there is no better reward than making a difference in a child's life that will last for a lifetime.

Spring Wellsprings is an extension of the child's home - it has a relaxed and sociable environment. We promote an atmosphere which invokes a feeling of contentment, happiness, comfort, familiarity, reassurance and companionship. If you can't find us in the nursery, then you'll either find us at the dairy farm or walking to the park!

In the role of Early Years Practitioner Level 3, you'll be allowing the children to explore and discover their own creativity, individuality, and imagination within our bright, engaging and safe environments.

What you'll be doing

In the role of Early Years Practitioner Level 3, you'll be:

• Supervising children and keeping our active, flexible nursery environment safe and suited to their needs.
• Giving children a wide range of stimulating, safe and well-planned activities.
• Creating engaging, fun and informative learning opportunities, to help children make excellent progress in the Early Years Foundation Stage.
• Building solid relationships with parents / carers, families and professionals involved with the children.
• Meeting each of the children's individual needs, keeping accurate records and regularly communicating with parents / carers.
• Having a positive attitude, making every single day count for the children in our care.

What we need from you

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 e.g. NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education or equivalent which is essential for the role.
• A passion to learn and develop whether you are newly qualified or an experienced practitioner - specialist baby room training will be provided.
• Full understanding of children's emotional, physical, psychological and educational developmental needs from 0 to 5 years.
• A positive attitude with an unwavering commitment to service excellence to allow us to maintain our high standards.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

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.

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.