Join Our Nursery Family as a Room Lead!
Are you a confident, experienced, and passionate Early Years Practitioner ready for your next exciting step in your professional development?
At Stepping Stones Day Nursery, we are entering a truly special period of growth and development. As we continue to expand our Sprowston provision in partnership with Sparhawk Infant and Nursery School—welcoming younger children and growing our spaces—we are creating even more opportunities, enriching environments, and magical beginnings for the children and families we support. Alongside this, our much-loved Spixworth setting continues to thrive, making this a wonderfully exciting time to become part of our nursery family.
We are looking for dedicated Room Leads to take responsibility for leading a room team, supporting high-quality practice, and ensuring children experience a safe, nurturing, and inspiring environment where they can learn, grow, and flourish. Positions are available at both our Spixworth and Sprowston nurseries.
Are you ready to lead by example—guiding your team with confidence, sharing your expertise, and helping to create meaningful early learning experiences that spark curiosity, independence, and joy?
We are looking for a caring and motivated Room Lead who will:
- Lead and support a team to deliver high-quality care and education
- Plan and provide engaging, developmentally appropriate, child-led experiences
- Build strong, positive relationships with children, families, and professionals
- Support children’s individual needs, including early identification and inclusive practice
- Work closely with the Manager to maintain high standards, policies, and procedures
At Stepping Stones, we believe in creating a safe, stimulating, and joyful environment where every child can thrive—and where every member of our team is supported, valued, and encouraged to develop.
Could you be the person to lead one of our rooms and help make each milestone truly magical?
♥ What We’re Looking For ♥
We’d love to hear from you if you are:
- Experienced in Early Years practice, with the confidence to lead and support a room team across all developmental stages.
- Strong in your knowledge of the EYFS framework, able to guide others in tailoring learning to meet each child’s individual needs and interests.
- Creative and playful, with the ability to inspire high-quality, curiosity-led practice across your team.
- Committed to safeguarding and wellbeing, ensuring high standards are consistently upheld and every child feels safe, included, and valued.
- Confident in building strong partnerships with parents, supporting your team to communicate effectively and professionally.
- Enthusiastic, reliable, and proactive – a positive role model who leads with energy, warmth, and teamwork.
★ Your Role & Responsibilities ★
As a Room Leader , you will:
- Lead and support your room team, ensuring consistently high standards of care, learning, and practice.
- Take responsibility for Key Person practice within the room, overseeing observations, assessments, and each child’s developmental journey.
- Support and guide the planning and delivery of inspiring EYFS-based learning experiences across the team.
- Work closely with colleagues, children, families, and external professionals to ensure the best possible outcomes for every child.
- Champion inclusive practice, supporting children with SEN and additional needs, and guiding your team in doing the same.
- Create and maintain a nurturing, well-organised, and stimulating environment where children can grow in confidence, independence, and resilience.
- Contribute to the smooth running of the nursery, ensuring high standards of safety, organisation, and positive team culture within your room.
☺ What We Offer You ☺
At Stepping Stones, we value and support our staff — after all, you’re at the heart of everything we do!
- Competitive pay (permanent contract)
- Closed for 2 weeks over Christmas (aligned with Norfolk County Council school calendar).
- No parking charges.
- Staff days out & “treat days”.
- Career progression opportunities.
- Ongoing training & professional development.
- Workplace pension scheme
- Working hours are between 8.00am-5.15pm at Sprowston (Sparhawk).
- orking hours are between 8.00am-6.00pm at Spixworth with some 7.30am starts.
✔ Essential Requirements ✔
- Full & relevant Early Years Level 3 qualification (or above).
- Completion of Introduction to Safeguarding, Paediatric First Aid, Food Hygiene, Food Allergen and COSHH training as a minimum - these training courses will be provided by us
- Willingness to undertake further training to support and enhance your own professional development to support the children we work for
- Enhanced DBS check (with subscription to the Update Service) - the first year is provided by us
- Genuine passion for early years education and supporting young children.
➡ Why Join Us? ➡
At Stepping Stones, we’re more than just a nursery — we’re a community. Our ethos is built on kindness, creativity, and curiosity, with every child’s unique journey celebrated and supported. As part of our team, you’ll not only make a difference in children’s lives, but you’ll also be supported, appreciated, and encouraged to grow in your own career.
To find out more about us and to find our application form, visit: www.steppingstonesdaynursery.org/careers
If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply today and take the next step in your Early Years journey with us.
All job opportunities at Stepping Stones Day Nursery are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (under the Exemptions Order) due to the nature of our business.
Rigorous recruitment checks are carried out and successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and Update Service sign up.
Short listed candidate/s will be asked about relevant criminal records as part of pre-recruitment checks. If a relevant criminal record is disclosed, we will ensure an open and fair discussion takes place before making a final offer. Failure to disclose information that is then later revealed on a DBS check (criminal record check) could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment. After receiving the DBS check, we will discuss any matters revealed that have not been previously addressed, before reconsidering the conditional offer of employment.
Job Types: Permanent, Full-time
Pay: £13.75 per hour
Application question(s):
- Please indicate if you are interested in a position at our Spixworth or Sprowston nursery
- Please list the full title of your qualification
Work Location: In person
