Join Our Passionate Team at Footsteps Nursery Fazeley – Where Every Day is an Adventure in Learning!
Are you a nurturing and enthusiastic childcare professional ready to make a real difference in little lives? We’re on the lookout for a dedicated Early Years Level 3 Practitioner to become part of our warm and welcoming team at Footsteps Nursery Fazeleyy.
Salary: £27,060.8 per annum ( £13.01 per hour)
Hours: 35 - 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, All year round
This beautiful purpose-built nursery, rated Good by Ofsted (March 2022), is set within a converted barn complex, boasting fully air-conditioned rooms, an all-weather outdoor play area and onsite forest school facilities, overlooking a picturesque landscape.
At Family First, we believe happy teams create happy children. That’s why we offer:
· £400 Qualification Bonus – for Level 3 Practitioners, paid after just 6 months!*
· Extra Time Off – 24 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off – all paid!
· 75% Childcare Discount – because we care for your little ones too
· Wellbeing Support – confidential helpline for life’s ups and downs
· Career Development – personalised training and growth opportunities
· Refer a Friend Bonus – earn up to £750!*
*Terms apply. Some benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
Your Role as a Nursery Practitioner:
As a valued member of our team, you’ll:
· Create engaging, age-appropriate learning experiences
· Ensure EYFS standards are met with care and creativity
· Promote a clean, safe, and nurturing environment
· Build strong bonds with children and families through our key person approach
· Collaborate with your team in regular meetings and ongoing development
What We’re Looking For:
· A Level 3 Childcare Qualification – essential
· Fluent in spoken and written English
· 1+ year of Early Years experience – desirable
· Knowledge of EYFS and safeguarding – desirable
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you’re passionate about early years education and want to be part of a team where everyone matters, we’d love to hear from you!
Apply today and start your journey with Footsteps Nursery Fazeley, where every day is a chance to inspire, nurture, and grow.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.
Footsteps Nursery Fazeley 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
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!
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.