Role: Ref 10410 - Early Years Practitioner Level 2 (or Level 3) Location: Braintree, Essex Salary: Up To £25,400 per annum (depending on qualifications/experience) Contract/Hours: Permanent Full Time - 40 hours per week Closing date: Midnight on 29th November 2024 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 We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Spring.
Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know… 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 role Spring Seesaw is an open plan purpose-built nursery which caters for up to 49 children from 0-5 years of age, situated within central Braintree close to the town centre, adjacent to John Bunyan Infant and Junior School.
Spring Seesaw caters for children with additional needs and pride ourselves in providing an inclusive service with support from our highly trained SENCO worker, with friendly and welcoming staff who are highly qualified, and passionate about the children's development.
When you join us, you'll be part of a passionate and creative team committed to giving the highest standards of care and education and helping children to find their feet - making friends, having fun and sparking their imaginations through play.
In the role of Early Years Practitioner Level 2, you'll be allowing the children to explore and discover their own creativity, individuality, and imagination within our bright, engaging and safe environments.
It goes without saying that you need to love being around children and will have the ambition to make a direct and positive impact on their young lives.
What you'll be doing In the role of Early Years Practitioner Level 2, you'll be: - Working as part of a team creating an environment in which children's individual needs are met and high standards of care are provided.
- Working alongside Level 3 practitioners in supporting children's development, participating, planning and setting up activities for a range of children.
- Developing successful relationships with children and their families.
- Observing and tracking children's development and share this with parent/carers and other professionals.
- Supporting children during mealtimes and toilet training.
What we need from you In the role of Early Years Practitioner Level 2, we're ideally looking for someone who has: - Level 2 qualification in Childcare and Education or equivalent.
If you already have a Level 3 qualification do also get in touch.
- Safeguarding Level 2 or ability to achieve.
- Experience working in an early year's childcare setting or a setting working with children.
- A thorough current working knowledge of children's emotional, physical, psychological and educational developmental needs from 0 to 5 years.
- A commitment to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users and have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
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.
Good luck!
We can't wait to hear from you.
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.