Job Title: Nursery Practitioner / Nursery Teacher
Location: South West London -Schools in Putney, SW15 & Southfields, SW19
Salary: £30,000 per annum (see below)
Job type: Full time, Monday – Friday; 7:15am-5:15pm / 8am-6pm / 8:30am-6:30pm (1 hour lunch break + 15 min coffee/tea break)
At Noddy’s Nursery School we aim to create a feeling of a home from home where your child can feel inspired, grow in confidence and receive the best level of care and attention.
Open from 7.20am until 6.30pm, 51 weeks a year, both of our nurseries take children from 3 months to 5 years either on a full-time basis or a minimum of 2 full days per week.
Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa’s at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK
Salaries: For experienced & qualified staff (Level 3 and above)
- £29,000/annum (Experienced Level 3 & above with >1year of experience)
- + £1,000 Performance Related Bonus
- Total salary + bonus = £30,000
- + £1,000 Sign on bonus if you apply directly to Noddy’s
We also employ unqualified staff wishing to study and those that have completed their L2, looking to study their L3.
For Level 2 qualified staff
- £23,000/annum
- + £1,000 Performance Related Bonus
- Total salary + bonus = £24,000
- + Paid for full training for Level 3
For unqualified staff
- £21,000/annum
- + £1,000 Performance Related Bonus
- Total salary + bonus = £22,000
- + Paid for full training for Level 2 / Level 3
Benefits:
- Holiday – 20 days per year, plus the week while we are closed for Christmas & New Year and 8 bank holidays – Approx. 32 days a year in total
- 1 day off every 2 weeks. That is an extra 26 days off per year! A total of 58 days off per year!
- Extra holiday accrued through loyalty – 1 extra day per year and per promotion
- We only promote internally. A Senior Nursery Teacher can earn up to £31,500 per year and Junior Managers £39,000 per year. We promoted 20 staff in the last 12 months!
- Full training provided including paediatric first aid, hundreds of online courses, support to upskill in certain areas such as special educational needs (SEN), child development, manager training courses etc.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- In house chefs and housekeepers meaning no washing up or preparing food. You can just focus on being a nursery teacher.
- Free mental health & wellbeing program for all staff from Health Assured
- Free tea, coffee, and other refreshments on your break.
- Stylish Noddy’s uniform provided
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Ensure that the high standards and philosophy of Noddy’s is always implemented in front of children, parents and other staff members.
- Ensure that you are following the Early Years Foundation Stage, using all relevant paperwork to plan, observe, track and move children forward to their next stage of development
- Being responsible for a key group of children, keeping an accurate record of their developments and achievements.
- Write termly learning journeys for each child in your key group.
- Being aware of each child’s individual care needs, including medical information, sleeping and dietary needs.
- Record the children’s sleep times, eating habits and bottle-feeds and undertake weekly observations.
- Preparation and completion of activities, both in the classroom and in the garden, to suit each child’s stage of development.
- Ensure that the children are safe and safeguarding procedures are always adhered to.
- Ensure children who are unwell are monitored in line with our sickness & temperature policies and that management are notified so arrangements can be made with the parents if they need to collect their child from Noddy’s.
More Specific Child Care tasks will be required in addition to this list.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Nursery Officer, Nursery Nurse, Child Carer, Nursery Manager, Senior Nursery Nurse, Childcare, Child, Nurse, Childcare, Nursery Assistant, Nursery, Pre-School Childcare, Childcare Assistant, Nursery Worker, Early Years, Educator, Childcare, Level 3, Children, Baby, Babies, EYFS, Early Years Teacher, Nursery Practitioner, Nursery Educator, Nursery Teacher, Early Years Educator, Early Years Teacher, early years practitioner, room leader, assistant room leader, teaching assistant will also be considered for this role.
