Senior Nursery Practitioner

Nursery Room Leader 

Monday - Friday - Full-Time - 40 hours per week

Hourly rate: £14.20 per hour  

About Us:

Join our warm and welcoming team at Footsteps Nursery Stratford, where we care for children in a nurturing, nature-inspired environment. With a spacious garden, forest school sessions, and hands-on activities, we create enriching experiences that spark curiosity and support every stage of development. We value our staff too, offering free lunches, a supportive atmosphere, and opportunities to grow within our dedicated team.

Role Overview:
As a Room Leader at our nursery, you will be responsible for overseeing the care and development of our children, working closely with a team of skilled practitioners. You will create a nurturing and safe environment for children, ensuring their physical, emotional, social, and intellectual growth.

Support a key person approach, fostering secure attachments and monitoring children’s progress through high-quality records (EyLog/EyMan)
Guide and support colleagues’ development while maintaining a positive, collaborative team environment
Build strong partnerships with parents, encouraging engagement and sharing children’s development
Lead by example with professionalism, consistency, and respect across the nursery
Ensure EYFS compliance, safeguarding, and high standards of health, safety, and welfare
Promote outdoor learning and apply a strong understanding of child development in practice

Requirements

Essential Qualifications & Skills:

Full and relevant Level 3 qualification in Childcare (Essential)

Previous experience working with pre-school

A passion for the outdoors and outdoor learning, with an enthusiasm for forest school activities

Strong understanding of child development and the ability to provide purposeful learning experiences

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, particularly in working with parents and colleagues

Knowledge of and commitment to safeguarding and child protection

Benefits

Why Join Us?

At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

· Annual leave: 24 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and an extra paid day off for your birthday
· Childcare discount: 75% off nursery fees for team members
· Wellbeing support: Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme helpline
· Learning and development: Tailored training and development opportunities to support your career growth
· Pension: Company pension scheme
· Employee discounts: Access to Perkaboo employee discounts
· Mentoring: Employee mentoring programme
· Health and wellbeing: Dedicated health and wellbeing support
· Refer a Friend scheme: Earn up to £750 through our referral programme

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 Stratford 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