Salary: £10.09 per hour

Perks: We have some of the best employment terms and benefits package in the sector, including generous leave entitlement, paid time off to deal with family emergencies and paid maternity leave - as well as lots of benefits to save you and your family money and to save for your future. Check out more on our careers portal.

Contract/Hours: Full-Time, Part-Time, Flexible Hours, Permanent Contract - simply specify in your application how many hours you'd like to work a week!

Location: Marlow, Bucks

We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know…

About Spring

We are proud to be part of the Action for Children family, a national children's charity and our success in Spring makes a difference. With over 150 years of experience in caring for children and young people, we are an award-winning quality and ethical provider. We believe all children deserve the best early start in life. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We are looking to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright and engaging settings.

If you're looking to work for a multi-award winning childcare provider and to be part of a team of professional Early Years staff, then why not take a break and read on?

What you'll be doing

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

• Supervising the children and keep our active, flexible nursery environment safe and suited to their needs
• Giving children a wide range of stimulating, safe and well-planned activities
• Creating engaging, fun and informative learning opportunities, helping the children make excellent progress and meet the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
• Building solid relationships with parents / carers, families and professionals involved with the children
• Meeting each of the children's individual needs, keeping accurate records and regularly communicating with parents / carers
• Having a positive attitude, making every single day count for the children in our care

What we need from you

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

• A Level 3 Early Years and Childcare qualification e.g. NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education or equivalent is desirable but not essential
• A passion to learn and develop whether you are newly qualified or an experienced practitioner.
• Full understanding of children's emotional, physical, psychological and educational developmental needs from 0 to 5 years
• A positive attitude with an unwavering commitment to service excellence to allow us to maintain our high standards

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life. Given this and how having a diverse workforce enriches the lives of the children and young people we work with we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion and welcome applications from everyone. We value and celebrate the diversity of those that work with us and as an inclusive workplace we want all our current and future staff to feel able to be themselves in the workplace.

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.

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

Apply here.