Senior nursery practitioner Work, Jobs in Essex (with Salaries)

Senior Early Years Practitioner
Spring Nurseries —Braintree
- Up to £28,000 a year
- Full-time
- Management
- Experience working with children
- Mentoring
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Senior Nursery Room Leader
Busy Bees —Braintree
- £14.30 an hour
- Full-time
- Supervising experience
- Mentoring
- Organisational skills
- Free parking
- Employee assistance programme
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Nursery Deputy Manager
Charlies House Childminding and Nursery —Braintree
- From £25,420 a year
- Temporary
- Supervising experience
- Experience working with children
- Mentoring
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
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Nursery Practitioner - Level 3
Family First Nurseries —Witham
- £25,421 - £25,426 a year
- Part-time
- English
- Experience working with children
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Quick apply
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Primary Teacher (Reception Class)
Howe Green House School —Bishop's Stortford
- Up to £48,880 a year
- Full-time
- Management
- Experience working with children
- Preschool
- Free parking
Quick apply
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Nursery Practitioner Level 3 SEN Specialist
Busy Bees —Stansted
- £14.90 an hour
- Part-time
- Experience working with children
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Senior Nursery Practitioner
The Old Station Nursery - Granta Park —Cambridge
- £33,030 a year
- Full-time
- Experience working with children
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Free parking
- Employee discount
Quick apply
Senior Early Years Educator
Storal —Brentwood
- Up to £14.68 an hour
- Monday to Friday
- Experience working with children
- Team management
- Communication skills
- Employee discount
- Sick pay
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Senior Early Years Practitioner
Storal —Sudbury
- Up to £14 an hour
- Monday to Friday
- Experience working with children
- Team management
- Communication skills
- Employee discount
- Sick pay
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Nursery Leader Full Time Temporary
Philosophy Education —Clacton-on-Sea
- £120 - £150 a day
- Full-time
- Childcare
- Management
- School
Nursery Room Leader
Fledgelings Day Nursery —Romford
- From £13.50 an hour
- Full-time
- Team management
- In-person
- Leadership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Annual leave
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Senior Early Years Practitioner

Spring Nurseries -
Braintree

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
Up to £28,000 a year
10 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Employee discount

Qualifications

Care record keeping
SEN support in early years settings
Management
Early Years pupil support
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework
Early Years Foundation Stage activity planning
Experience working with children
Mentoring
NVQ
Early years foundation stage teaching
Paediatric First Aid Certification
Level 3 in Early Years & Childcare
Communication skills
Early years education experience
Nursery experience

Full job description

Location: Braintree, Essex

Salary: up to £28,000 per annum

Contract/Hours: Permanent/Full Time – 40 hours per week

Closing date: Midnight on the 31st of August 2026

Benefits:

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Professional qualifications and excellent training
Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
Up to 5% employer contribution and life assurance cover
Blue Light Card eligibility with discounts at 15,000 national retailers

About the role

As a Senior Early Years Practitioner, you’ll play a key role in the nursery’s daily routine, leading your room to deliver high quality early years education and care for all children. You will plan, implement and review engaging activities that promote learning and development in line with the EYFS, ensuring every child thrives in a safe, stimulating, and inclusive environment.

In this role, you will support and guide other practitioners’ model best practise, and help maintain strong, positive partnership with parents and carers. You'll be responsible for completing accurate and up-to-date observations assessments and records.

What you’ll be doing

In the role of Senior Early Years Practitioner, you'll be:

Leading the staff within the room on providing learning programmes for individual or groups of children appropriate to their needs and developmental stages in accordance with Early Years legislation and guidance.
Support children with emerging or established special educational needs, working closely with family’s staff external agencies and professionals to ensure each child's needs are understood and met
Ensuring the compliance and application of nursery policies and procedures and relevant legislative requirements, informing management immediately of any instances of non-compliance or variations in practices.
Contributing to and participating in the wider nursery management through leading on specific areas of development within the nursery, as directed by the Nursery Manager.
Preparing and supervising dedicated areas/rooms within the setting on specific working patterns through planning, monitoring of outcomes, managing ratio of children, and the provision of a stimulating and appropriate range of activities whilst ensuring health and care needs are met.

What we need from you

In the role of Senior Early Years Practitioner, we're ideally looking for someone who has:

Level 3 early years and childcare qualification e.g., NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education.
A thorough knowledge of children's developmental needs from 0 to 5 years.
Experience working and leading in an early year setting.
Strong planning, observation and reflection of children and their learning.
Effective communication skills across multiple age groups.
Paediatric First Aid qualification.

About the nursery

Spring Carousel is a beautiful nursery providing exceptional early years education for children aged 6 months to five years. The nursery is set in a bright, welcoming environment with a fantastic outdoor space where children can play, explore and learn in nature throughout the seasons.

As a Senior practitioner, you’ll join our dynamic team, working together to support each child’s learning to ensure each day is fun and engaging.

Why Spring Nurseries

At Spring Nurseries, you’ll be part of a supportive and purpose-driven team committed to delivering exceptional early years education. We invest in our staff through ongoing training, development opportunities and career progression, creating an environment where both children and colleagues can thrive.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.

Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected] quoting reference 13574.

We'll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

At Spring Oscars we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best practice.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the Job Description when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

Talent Pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather, we didn't do that.

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