Early Years Practitioner

If you are offered an EYP role, you will receive a £300 recruitment bonus after successfully completing your 3 month probation period. 

Set in a small village in Northants, the nursery is truly part of the village community with close links to the local school. Our nursery is a welcoming environment where children can thrive. We embrace the outdoors, making full use of our garden with its stream, pond and growing beds which is further enhanced with regular visits to our own Forest school and community allotment.  We are looking for inspirational Level 3 qualified Early Years Practitioner to join our nursery in Stanwick, Northamptonshire. The role will be working in our Acorn room with the under 2 year olds. 

The role will be 40 hours per week, working 4 days per week, between Monday to Friday. working between 07.30 and 18.15.

We’re proud to be one of the leading childcare providers in Milton Keynes, Northampton and Bedford with over 35 years’ experience who specialise in nature pedagogy and promoting the professional development of our employees. We believe that childcare needs a personal touch, and our nurseries and out-of-school clubs offer flexibility and individuality with a homely feel. As a not-for-profit organisation, we place our children’s well-being at the heart of our work.

We very much welcome candidates that are looking to progress their personal career development. The ideal candidate will be passionate, motivated and enthusiastic about outdoor learning and creative play, as well as a good working knowledge and practice of the EYFS and safeguarding procedures.

Role:

• To support a holistic approach to the curriculum
• To ensure basic care needs of individual children are met
• To ensure a high level of well-being among children
• To have a good understanding of Acorn’s ethos, values, policies and procedures and that they are reflected in daily practice
• A good working knowledge and practice of the EYFS and safeguarding procedures
• To assist in the smooth day to day running of your group
• To carry out tasks as requested

Successful applicants must be able to provide ‘right to work in the UK’ documentation, provide two satisfactory references and undertake an enhanced DBS check prior to commencing employment.

Benefits

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