• Title Senior Childcarer
  • Setting Day Nursery / Nursery School
  • Role Room Leader / Team Leader / Senior Nursery Nurse
  • Salary £25,651 to £32,651 per annum
  • Hours Full Time
  • Location Chertsey, Surrey

Job Summary

Date posted: 25 February 2025

Level 3 Childcare Practitioners £25,651 to £32,651 - Rainbow Nursery at Almners Priory, Chertsey

Rainbow Nursery & Preschool is a family owned nursery comprising ten classes in two beautiful buildings. Set in five fabulous acres, we place a strong emphasis on the outdoors, offering gardens for different age groups, a farm, planting allotments, a galleon ship, telly tubby hill, maze, double-decker bus and more. There are three under 2s rooms for our littlest ones, two for our 2 year old Discoverers and five preschool classrooms for our little Explorers and Voyagers.

Our vision is To Nurture, To Inspire, To Have Fun! Early Years are so precious and important - what you do here sets up a child for life, so come visit us and see the Rainbow family in action.

Rainbow, at Almners Priory since 2002, has a strong management and senior team to provide you with professional support and development. Our Rainbow level 3 Practitioners have opportunities to progress to Room Leader and management roles. We support further qualifications eg Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner, Degrees in Early Years, Diploma in Autism and encourage our team to let their own unique skills and talents shine through.

Benefits of working at Rainbow, Almners Priory, Chertsey include:

  • Highly rewarding salary
  • 28 days paid holidays including Bank Holidays & Christmas shut-down, increasing with length of service
  • Free and extensive development programme
  • Free onsite parking
  • Paid overtime, training, meetings and sparkle days
  • 40% discount for staff children's place
  • Pension scheme
  • Fun events, at work and outside of work
  • Flexible - work 4 or 5 days

The job is suitable for candidates in the following roles: Childcare Practitioner, Early Years Practitioner, Nursery Nurse, Nursery Practitioner, Nursery Teacher, Early Years Educator, Room Leader, Room Supervisor, Room Manager.

Following interview, a conditional job offer is made to successful applicants, dependent upon a clear Enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks and where applicable, receipt of 'right to work in the UK' documentation. This job is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Rainbow is an Equal Opportunities employer.

Skills / Qualifications:

  • Level 3 EYE qualification or equivalent 2 years' experience in a childcare setting as a Practitioner
  • Educator
  • Childcarer
  • Teacher Enthusiasm for this vital
  • inspirational role in a child's life A kind
  • caring
  • positive attitude making every child feel secure Proven experience of great team-work A reliable mode of transport as we are not well served by public transport