Job Description
🍒 Nursery Third in Charge – Cherrywood Nursery
📍 Location: Cemetery Pales, Pirbright, GU24 0JT
🕒 Contract: Permanent | 34 hours per week
💰 Hourly Rate: £13.72
🎉 Welcome Bonus: £1,000 (paid after 6 months)
🎓 Qualification Bonus: £400 (paid after 6 months)
🌿 Lead with Heart at Cherrywood Nursery
Step into a leadership role where your experience and passion for early years education will truly shine. Cherrywood Nursery, located in the picturesque village of Pirbright, offers a modern, open-plan setting with exceptional facilities designed to spark curiosity and nurture development.
Our standout features include:
- A calming sensory room and exciting soft play area
- Expansive outdoor gardens with a vegetable patch, sensory garden, and outdoor learning spaces
- A dedicated outdoor classroom with climbing frames
- Five age-specific rooms with tailored resources
- A cosy sleep room and modern changing/toileting facilities
- On-site kitchen with fresh, homemade meals prepared daily
💖 Why You’ll Love Working With Us
- £1,000 Welcome Bonus – A warm and rewarding start
- £400 Qualification Bonus – Celebrate your Level 3 expertise after 6 months
- Generous Annual Leave – 24 days + your birthday off + bank holidays
- Childcare Discount – 75% off nursery fees for your own children
- Health & Wellbeing Support – Confidential helpline access
- Career Development – Tailored training and clear progression pathways
- Pension Scheme – Competitive and secure
- Referral Bonuses – Help us grow and earn rewards
- Free Onsite Parking
- Team Events & Celebrations – Socials, team-building, and fun throughout the year
- Career Progression Opportunities – Within a supportive and forward-thinking nursery group
🌈 Your Role as Nursery Third in Charge
- Lead by example, creating enriching experiences and environments for children
- Support the physical, emotional, and intellectual development of every child
- Guide and mentor staff, ensuring high-quality observations and learning journals via EyLog
- Promote a strong key person approach and help identify training needs
- Maintain accurate records using EyMan and ensure compliance with EYFS
- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of children, staff, and families at all times
- Act as a role model, demonstrating professionalism, consistency, and care
Note: Duties may evolve to meet the needs of the nursery.
🎓 What We’re Looking For
- ✅ Full and relevant Level 3 Childcare Qualification – Essential
- ✅ 1+ year experience in Early Years – Essential
- ➕ 6+ months in a senior role – Desirable
- ➕ Knowledge of EYFS & Ofsted standards – Desirable
- ➕ Montessori experience – Desirable
- ✅ Fluent in written and spoken English – Essential
🛡️ Safeguarding Commitment
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and thorough vetting procedures.
🌟 Ready to take the next step in your early years career? Apply now and become a key part of our Cherrywood family!
Cherrywood 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.