Job Description
🌟 Join Our Team as a Level 3 Nursery Practitioner! 🌟
Location: Ellingham House Day Nursery, Hampshire
Salary: £13.74 per hour
Hours:Â Full Time (40 hours per week)
Are you passionate about early years education and looking for a role in a truly inspiring setting? Ellingham House Day Nursery offers a unique opportunity to work in a beautiful Georgian country house nestled on the edge of the New Forest National Park. With excellent commuter links via Salisbury Road and free onsite parking, getting here is easy—and once you arrive, you won’t want to leave!
🌳 A Magical Place to Work
Set within 2.5 acres of stunning lawns and woodland, our nursery provides children with endless opportunities to explore nature, build confidence, and develop physical skills in our much-loved ‘bear cave’. We’re also home to two adorable Valais Blacknose sheep—Baarbara and Soozie—who help children learn about animal care in a safe and engaging way.
Our recently refurbished rooms are thoughtfully designed to create a warm, nurturing, and homely environment for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
💖 Why You’ll Love Working With Us
We believe in celebrating and rewarding our team’s dedication. Here’s what you can expect:
- £750 Welcome Bonus – A warm start to your journey with us
- Up to £400 Qualification Recognition Bonus – Paid after just 6 months for Level 3 Practitioners
- Generous Annual Leave – 24 days + your birthday off + bank holidays
- 75% Childcare Discount – For your little ones
- Health & Wellbeing Support – Confidential employee assistance helpline
- Tailored Learning & Development – Grow your career with us
- Company Pension Scheme – Secure your future
- Referral Bonuses – Help us grow our team
- Free Onsite Parking
- Fun Company Events – Team-building, socials, and celebrations
- Clear Career Progression Pathways
🧸 Your Role
As a Level 3 Nursery Practitioner, you’ll:
- Provide high-quality care and education tailored to each child’s needs
- Plan and deliver engaging, age-appropriate activities
- Create a safe, stimulating environment for learning and play
- Work collaboratively with your team and contribute to a positive culture
- Support children’s physical, emotional, and social development
- Ensure compliance with health & safety and safeguarding policies
✅ What We’re Looking For
- Level 3 Childcare Qualification (essential)
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- 1+ year experience in Early Years (desirable)
- Knowledge of EYFS framework and regulatory requirements (desirable)
We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and thorough vetting procedures.
Ellingham 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!
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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.