Early years education occupations Work, Jobs in Witham, Ess (with Salaries)

Senior Early Years Practitioner
Spring Nurseries —Witham
- Up to £28,000 a year
- Full-time
- Communication skills
- School
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
9d
Nursery Practitioner Level 2 / Level 3 - Term-time only 26.5 hours / week
Rivenstars (part of the Second Steps Group) —Rivenhall
- From £12.85 an hour
- Part-time
- Childcare
- English
- Working with children
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay
Quick apply
Nursery Apprentice
Honeybear House Day Nursery —Witham
- From £8 an hour
- Full-time
- Childcare
- In-person
- School
Quick apply
Unqualified Early Years Educator
Kinderzimmer UK —Chelmsford
- Up to £27,040 a year
- Full-time
- Childcare
- Business development
- Preschool
- Employee discount
- Bereavement leave
Quick apply
9d
Nursery Practitioner - Level 3
Family First Nurseries —Colchester
- £13.58 an hour
- Part-time
- English
- Preschool
- Free parking
- Annual leave
Nursery Bank Staff
Family First Nurseries —Witham
- English
Early Years Educator
Kinderzimmer UK —Chelmsford
- Up to £28,655.42 a year
- Full-time
- Childcare
- Management
- Working with children
- Employee discount
- Bereavement leave
Quick apply
9d
Forest School Practitioner
Hillside Gems Nursery & Preschool —Chelmsford
- £14.55 an hour
- Part-time
- Childcare
- Working with children
- Preschool
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Quick apply
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Team Leader
Grandir UK —Writtle
- £27,872 - £30,992 a year
- Full-time
- Preschool
- School
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Quick apply
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Qualified Early Years Bank Staff
Bright Horizons —Chelmsford
- From £13.94 an hour
- Working with children
- Preschool
Quick apply
10d
Early Years Practitioner
Storal —Chelmsford
- £13.61 - £14.21 an hour
- 8 hour shift
- Employee discount
- Sick pay
Quick apply
Nursery Practitioner
Little Doves Day Nursery —Colchester
- From £12.80 an hour
- Childcare
- Free parking
- Paid training
Quick apply
Early Years Apprentice
Grandir UK —Writtle
- £8.00 - £8.40 an hour
- Full-time
- School
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Quick apply
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Early Years Practitioner
Tiny Treasures Day Nursery —Brentwood
- £27,268 - £29,069 a year
- Part-time
- Childcare
- English
- In-person
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
Quick apply
14d
Early Years Practitioner Level 2
Spring Nurseries —Braintree
- £12.75 an hour
- Part-time
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
9d
Relief Nursery Practitioner
Busy Bees —Braintree
- £8.50 - £12.75 an hour
- Full-time
- Free parking
- Employee assistance programme
10d
Early Years Practitioner (Baby & Toddler)
Tots and Teepees Day Nursery —Glemsford
- £12.71 - £13.00 an hour
- Part-time
- Preschool
- In-person
- Communication skills
- Free parking
Quick apply
11d
Early Years Educator
Storal —Sudbury
- £12.71 - £13.30 an hour
- Part-time
- Sick pay
Quick apply
Deputy Childcare Manager
The Bloom Childcare Group —Colchester
- From £14.50 an hour
- Full-time
- Childcare
- English
- Preschool
- Employee discount
Quick apply
Early Years Practitioner
Lexden Lodge Kindergarten —Colchester
- From £12.21 an hour
- Full-time
- Childcare
- English
- In-person
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Employee discount
Quick apply
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Senior Early Years Practitioner

Spring Nurseries -
Witham

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Job details

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

Benefits

Annual leave
Employee discount

Qualifications

NVQ
Paediatric First Aid Certification
Level 3 in Early Years & Childcare
Communication skills

Full job description

Location: Witham

Salary: up to £28,000 per annum

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

Closing date: Midnight on the 17th of July 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 Harlequin , is a 37-place nursery care for children from birth to 5 years, offering full-day sessions and wrap around care with breakfast and after-school fun. It offers a home-from-home environment where children are encouraged to play, explore, and grow at their own pace, guided by caring practitioners who help them become confident, curious learners.

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 13359.

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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