Job Description
🍒 Level 3 Early Years Practitioner – Cherrywood Nursery
📍 Location: Cemetery Pales, Pirbright, GU24 0JT
🕒 Contract: Full-Time (40 hours/week) | Permanent | Part-time options available
💰 Salary: Up to £29,326.70 per annum (based on qualifications and experience)
🎉 Welcome Bonus: £1,000 (paid after 6 months)
🎓 Qualification Bonus: £400 (paid after 6 months)
Cherrywood Nursery is nestled in the charming village of Pirbright, offering a modern, open-plan setting where creativity, care, and nature come together. Our exceptional facilities include:
- A calming sensory room and exciting soft play area
- Expansive outdoor gardens with a vegetable patch, sensory garden, and outdoor learning spaces
- A dedicated outdoor classroom with climbing frames to support gross motor development
- Five age-specific rooms with tailored resources
- A cosy sleep room and modern changing/toileting facilities
- An on-site kitchen with two caterers serving fresh, homemade meals daily
- £1,000 Welcome Bonus – A warm and rewarding start to your journey
- £400 Qualification Bonus – Celebrate your Level 3 expertise after just 6 months
- Generous Annual Leave – 24 days + your birthday off + bank holidays
- Childcare Discount – 75% off nursery fees for your own children
- Health & Wellbeing Support – Confidential helpline access
- Career Development – Tailored training and clear progression pathways
- Pension Scheme – Competitive and secure
- Referral Bonuses – Help us grow and earn rewards
- Free Onsite Parking
- Team Events & Celebrations – Socials, team-building, and fun throughout the year
- Career Progression Opportunities – Within a growing nursery group
- Deliver high-quality care and education tailored to each child’s individual needs
- Plan and implement engaging, age-appropriate activities
- Act as a key person, building strong relationships with children and families
- Collaborate with your team to maintain a safe, stimulating, and inclusive environment
- Follow nursery policies and procedures, including safeguarding and health & safety
- Support children’s physical, emotional, and social development through play and interaction
- ✅ Full and relevant Level 3 Childcare Qualification – Essential
- ✅ Fluent in written and spoken English – Essential
- ➕ 1+ year experience in Early Years – Desirable
- ➕ Knowledge of EYFS & regulatory requirements – Desirable
🛡️ Safeguarding Commitment
We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and thorough vetting procedures.
🌟 Ready to make a meaningful impact in early years education? Apply now and become part of our Cherrywood family!
Cherrywood is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.
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