Job Description
🏡 Early Years Practitioner – Drayton House Nursery School
📍 Guildford | Full-Time (40 hours/week) | Permanent
💰 Salary: From £29,100 per annum
🕒 All year round | Part-time may be considered
Are you a passionate Level 3 Early Years Practitioner looking to make a meaningful impact in a nurturing, high-quality setting?
Join Drayton House Nursery School, a well-established nursery set in a beautiful Georgian house, where tradition meets excellence in early education. Since 1943, we’ve been providing outstanding care for children aged 6 months to 5 years, with small class sizes, a warm and friendly atmosphere, and a strong reputation among local schools.
Our mascot, Berty the dog, adds a special charm to our nursery life — making every day a little brighter for children and staff alike!
💖 Why You’ll Love Working With Us:
- £1000 Welcome Bonus – a warm start to your journey with us
- £400 Qualification Recognition Bonus – paid after just 6 months
- Generous Annual Leave – 24 days + your birthday off + bank holidays
- 75% Childcare Discount – for your own little ones
- Health & Wellbeing Support – confidential helpline available
- Tailored Career Development – training and progression opportunities
- Company Pension Scheme – secure your future
- Referral Bonuses – for bringing great people into our team
- Team Events & Celebrations – because we believe in fun and connection
- Career Progression Opportunities – grow with us!
🌈 Your Role:
As an Early Years Practitioner, you will:
- Plan and deliver engaging, age-appropriate activities
- Support children’s physical, emotional, and social development
- Act as a key worker, building strong relationships with children and families
- Collaborate with your team to uphold our high standards of care and education
🎓 What We’re Looking For:
- Level 3 or above Early Years Qualification – Essential
- Fluent in written and spoken English – Essential
- 1+ year experience in Early Years – Desirable
- Knowledge of EYFS & regulatory requirements – Desirable
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and thorough vetting procedures.
Drayton House 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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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.