Room Leader (Senior Practitioner)

If you are offered a Room Leader (Senior Practitioner) role, you will receive a £500 recruitment bonus after successfully completing your 3 month probation period. 

Acorn Nursery in Brafield-on-the-Green, Northamptonshire, is seeking an inspirational Room Leader (Senior) with a minimum Level 3 qualification in Early Years, with Level 6 or graduate qualifications desirable. This full-time role involves leading the Oaks room for 3-4-year-olds, ensuring high standards of care, learning, and development in line with the EYFS framework.

The nursery, established in 1997, offers a warm, child-centered environment with exceptional outdoor learning opportunities, including Forest School sessions. As part of Acorn, a Top 20 DayNurseries group, employees benefit from extensive training, career progression, a competitive salary, enhanced pension contributions, and a 65% childcare discount.

Key responsibilities include providing high-quality care and education, creating an enabling environment, building strong parent partnerships, supporting colleagues, and ensuring the smooth daily running of the nursery. The role also involves deputizing for the manager or deputy when required and upholding Acorn’s values.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about outdoor learning and creative play, with experience in Early Years education, a strong understanding of the EYFS and safeguarding procedures, and previous leadership experience in a preschool setting being advantageous. The position requires flexibility for early (from 7:15 am) and late shifts (until 6:15 pm).

Successful applications will need to provide ‘right to work in the UK’ documentation and undertake a DBS check. 

Acorn Childcare is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Benefits

Working at Acorn

As a thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to making Acorn a safe, nurturing and fun place for our children to be, we offer:

• Payscales that are competitive, transparent and reviewed annually
• 65% Childcare discount
• Generous family leave 
• Christmas closure 
• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays (and the option to buy more) 
• 4 dedicated training days and individual development plans
• Enhanced pension scheme 
• Cyclescheme 
• Techscheme 
• Length of Service awards 
• Summer and Christmas parties
• Pay advances 
• Employee assistance wellbeing programme