Monkey Puzzle Stanway are looking for fantastic Level 3 Qualified Early Years Practitioners to join our nursery team and help to provide outstanding education and early years childcare for our children.
Are you looking for a career in childcare and have received your Level 3 qualification? Then we want to hear from you!
Monkey Puzzle Stanway knows that our staff team is our greatest resource. Every day they offer outstanding love, care and attention to our children. They show a real passion for what they deliver to our children and take enormous pride in what they do.
We want to offer exciting and diverse careers to all staff that are seeking them. Whatever your goals are within our internal teams or your personal career, we will assist you in achieving that goal and progress even further.
We also offer our staff access to a range of training routes to ensure they stay up to date with the latest guidance for care within our nurseries at all levels of staff, continuing to help them progress in their careers and build on their skills.
Monkey Puzzle Stanway is a fabulous place to work where your opinion, thoughts and special touch is what matters most and you will be generously rewarded for your capabilities, loyalty and dedication.
This role is a full-time position, 40 hours per week, with a competitive salary.
Find out more about our position below:
As part of Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries, you will be joining our caring, welcoming and supportive team. Our vision is to inspire change through excellence in childcare, creating a positive impact for generations to come.
For over 20 years, Monkey Puzzle has been providing children the highest quality of care with unlimited opportunities to grow, learn, develop and flourish in our safe and secure environments.
Early Years Practitioners spend most of their days supporting learning and delivering the curriculum to our children. Working in age group rooms, they interact and play with the children, helping them to develop and grow as they explore the world around them through both guided and child led activities.
Our Practitioners work under the guidance of senior staff. Working together, they provide the highest level of care and education for all children attending our nurseries, in line with our curriculum and guidance, ensuring that all our children are safe, learning and enjoying their time with us.
Monkey Puzzle Early Years Practitioners have the ability to communicate confidently with both parents and children and are able to work well within a team. They can show good verbal and written communication skills and be able to maintain confidentiality, knowing when to report issues of concern to a senior team member.
Our Practitioners work with a positive attitude and show a drive to learn whilst supporting children, parents, colleagues, and visitors daily. Being able to plan and organise their time will help them in their role, allowing them to show their creative ideas and inspire learning in our children.
The duties and responsibilities included in this job specification are not exhaustive or restrictive and can be reviewed at any time in the future, changes and other duties deemed relevant to this post may be added.
- You will be able to work closely with the nursery management team to support room-based staff
- You are able to promote a high standard of quality within the nursery
- You have fantastic organisation skills
- You are able to work as part of a team
- You have a positive attitude and creative ideas to inspire learning
- You have good verbal and written communication skills
- You will be able to establish and maintain professional positive working relationships with colleagues, parents and carers as well as outside agencies
- Minimum full and relevant Level 3 Early Years qualification
- Background in working to the Early Years Foundation Stage
- At least 1 year experience as a nursery practitioner or similar
- Experience of working and communicating with parents and carers
- Commitment to outdoor learning
- Mobile phone paid (max £35pcm)
- Life insurance paid (max £20pcm)
- Additional annual leave for birthday
- 20 driving lessons paid (50% value)
- £200pcm towards car finance
- £200pcm commute cost
- Childcare discount
- Access to free counselling services and employee assistance programme
- Company wide events
- A wellbeing focused leadership team
- Competitive salary
- 2 annual inset training days
- £1000 refer a friend scheme
- Terms and conditions apply.
- Food and Hygiene Level 2
- Prevent Duty
- FGM
- Safeguarding
- Paediatric First Aid
- SENDco
- Self-Regulation
Apply now for our Level 3 Early Years Practitioner position at Monkey Puzzle
If you think working at Monkey Puzzle Stanway is the perfect role for you, we would love to hear from you! Just fill out the short form below, attach a copy of your CV and tell us a little bit about yourself and why you want to work in childcare and Early Years education.