Role: Ref - Early Years Practitioner (aka Early Years Superhero)
Location: Norwich, Norfolk
Salary: Up to £26,499 per annum
Contract/Hours: Permanent Full Time Fun – 40 hours per week
Closing Date: Midnight of 23rd July 2025
Benefits:
- Time off to recharge - 33 Days leave per year
- 24/7 Confidential Helpline - speak to trained counsellors any time, 365 days a year, for emotional, wellbeing or mental health support.
- Enhanced Well-being -8 sessions In-Person, Phone, or Online Counselling or CBT
- Treat yourself - Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15,000 + retailers
- Childcare Discount – A whopping 60% off childcare within our nurseries and out of school clubs
- Up to 3 Days Dependency Leave – to care for dependents in an emergency.
- Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave
- Gain professional qualifications - with excellent training/development opportunities
- Salary Finance - access to financial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary
- Secure your future - Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
Why Spring Nurseries
Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is a new adventure. That's Spring Nursery! We're not just a nursery; we are a family dedicated to creating a joyful and nurturing environment where children thrive. As part of Action for Children, we're on a mission to provide outstanding early education that's accessible to all.
At Spring, we are committed to supporting your career growth! Check out our Spring Career Progression Map attached to this advert, which highlights the options for progression into a specialist role.
A day in the life of an Early Years Superhero:
Spring Thorpe Hamlet is 57-place nursery in the heart of Norwich for children ages 3-months to 5-years. We pride ourselves on the warm, ‘home from home' environment we provide, where children are encouraged and supported to become independent learners. Our highly dedicated staff take time to get to know parents and children to ensure all of their individual care and learning needs are met: our philosophy is to actively encourage the involvement of parents so we can achieve our aim of ensuring children grow to be confident, happy and resilient.
As an Early Years Practitioner (Level 3), you'll let the little ones explore, discover their creativity, and let their imaginations run wild in our bright engaging, and safe space. If you’re ready to make a difference and have a fun while doing it Spring Thorpe Hamlet is where you need to be.
Your mission (should you choose to accept it)
- Supervise and protect our children in the safe and stimulating environment
- Lead exciting preschool activities that spark creativity and curiosity
- Prepare children for the next big adventure: School
- Creating engaging learning experiences that help children shine
- Build strong relationships with parents/carers and families
- Meet each child's unique needs with love and attention
- Bring a positive attitude and make every day magical
What we need from you
In the role of Early Years Practitioner (Level 3), we're ideally looking for someone who has:
- A Level 3 Early Years and Childcare qualification (NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent)
- A passion for continuous learning and growth, aligned with our core values and the Spring career pathway
- A deep understanding of children's development needs (0 to 5 years)
- A positive attitude and a commitment to excellence
Ready to make a difference in the lives of children? Whether you're looking for a career change or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you!
Apply now and help us give children a healthy start in life!
Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected] quoting the above Reference.
We'll be happy to give you any support you require.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring Oscars we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.
Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the Job Description when applying.
We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.
Talent Pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.
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See below for further information about working with us:
Employee Reward Booklet
Spring Early Years Career Pathway
Job Description
