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Nursery Practitioner - Level 2

£12.63 hourly

Family First Nursery Group
Totton, UK
22 Oct, 2025

Full time Early Years Practitioner/Nursery Nurse Nursery Assistant/Early Years Assistant

Job Description

🌈 Level 2 Nursery Practitioner – Totton Day Nursery

Location: High Street, Totton (3-minute walk from the train station)
Contract: 4 days week role up to 32 hours per week
Salary: £12.63 per hour

Are you a nurturing, enthusiastic Early Years Practitioner looking to grow your career in a supportive and inspiring environment? Join our vibrant team at Totton Day Nursery, where every day is filled with discovery, development, and outdoor adventures!

🏡 About Us

Totton Day Nursery is a purpose-built setting designed to spark imagination and curiosity. Our spacious rooms are flooded with natural light, and each playroom opens directly onto our beautiful gardens—perfect for free-flow play and exploration. With all-weather protection, outdoor learning happens rain or shine!

We’re proud of our exceptional apprentice programme, offering high-quality training and clear progression pathways across our Southampton nurseries. Whether you're just starting out or looking to advance, we’re here to support your journey.

🌟 Why You’ll Love Working With Us

We believe happy staff make happy children. That’s why we offer:

£1000 Welcome Bonus to kickstart your journey with us
£400 Qualification Recognition Bonus after 6 months for Level 3 Practitioners
Generous Annual Leave: 24 days + your birthday off + bank holidays
Childcare Discount: 75% off nursery fees for team members
Health & Wellbeing Support: Confidential helpline access
Career Development: Tailored training and progression opportunities
Pension Scheme: Competitive contributions for your future
Referral Bonuses: Help us grow and earn rewards
Free Onsite Parking
Team Events: Socials, celebrations, and team-building fun
Staff Treats & Relaxation: Enjoy a fully equipped staff room and regular appreciation surprises

🎯 What You’ll Be Doing

As a Level 2 Nursery Practitioner, you will:

Create engaging, age-appropriate activities and learning environments
Promote cleanliness, hygiene, and safety throughout the nursery
Support the key person approach, building secure relationships with children
Collaborate with your team to ensure smooth daily operations
Participate in team meetings and contribute to continuous improvement
Uphold the EYFS framework and nursery policies

✅ What You’ll Need

Level 2 or 3 Childcare Qualification – Essential
Experience with under 2s – Essential
Fluent English (written and spoken) – Essential
1+ Year in Early Years – Desirable
Knowledge of EYFS & Safeguarding – Desirable

🛡️ Our Commitment to Safeguarding

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and thorough vetting procedures.

If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact in a warm, welcoming nursery where your growth is supported and celebrated, apply today and become part of the Totton Day Nursery family!

🌈 Level 2 Nursery Practitioner – Totton Day Nursery

Location: High Street, Totton (3-minute walk from the train station)
Contract: Full-Time, 38 hours per week
Salary: £12.63 per hour

🏡 About Us

🌟 Why You’ll Love Working With Us

We believe happy staff make happy children. That’s why we offer:

Generous Annual Leave: 24 days + your birthday off + bank holidays
Childcare Discount: 75% off nursery fees for team members
Health & Wellbeing Support: Confidential helpline access
Career Development: Tailored training and progression opportunities
Pension Scheme: Competitive contributions for your future
Referral Bonuses: Help us grow and earn rewards
Free Onsite Parking
Team Events: Socials, celebrations, and team-building fun
Staff Treats & Relaxation: Enjoy a fully equipped staff room and regular appreciation surprises

🎯 What You’ll Be Doing

As a Level 2 Nursery Practitioner, you will:

Create engaging, age-appropriate activities and learning environments
Promote cleanliness, hygiene, and safety throughout the nursery
Support the key person approach, building secure relationships with children
Collaborate with your team to ensure smooth daily operations
Participate in team meetings and contribute to continuous improvement
Uphold the EYFS framework and nursery policies

✅ What You’ll Need

Level 2 or 3 Childcare Qualification – Essential
Experience with under 2s – Essential
Fluent English (written and spoken) – Essential
1+ Year in Early Years – Desirable
Knowledge of EYFS & Safeguarding – Desirable

🛡️ Our Commitment to Safeguarding

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and thorough vetting procedures.

If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact in a warm, welcoming nursery where your growth is supported and celebrated, apply today and become part of the Totton Day Nursery family!

The Play Away Day Nursery - Totton 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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Play Away Day Nurseries - Totton

About Family First Nursery Group

Why Join Us?

Established in 2019, we are UK’s fastest growing childcare provider and it’s our ambition to grow further by acquiring well run local nurseries that provide outstanding quality childcare and we strive to provide an enjoyable working environment for all our team. Whether you are working in one of our nurseries, or as part of our support team, you’ll feel part of the family. It’s always been like this, it’s in our DNA.

If you love childcare as much as we do, you’ll fit right in. We know that choosing your next career move is a big step, but fear not – our people are our most important asset and we make a big deal when it comes to taking care of you!

What Makes us Different?

From humble beginnings with a very small team, Family First began its journey with just 4 nurseries within London and has grown to 100 nurseries across the UK. Although we have grown, we have stayed true to our values, ensuring the highest possible standard of childcare, with a passion for developing our teams.

Our people are passionate about creating a special environment for all of the children within our care to flourish. Whilst there’s lots of hard work involved, to ensure that all our children are provided with the best possible standard of care, it’s the fact that we all love working with children, believe in what we do and have a lot of fun doing it that really helps us pull together, to create the highest quality of childcare that we’ve become famous for.

It’s the reason that parents choose to trust us with their children; because when you enjoy caring for children and seeing them develop into wonderful young people as much as we do, the feeling to have enriched someone’s early years journey is truly overwhelming.

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