Job Description

Little Stars Pre-School at Staunton and Corse Academy, requires an excellent Early Years Practitioner to work within our educational setting and join our enthusiastic, hardworking team of highly skilled and experienced Early Years Practitioners.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced practitioner to join us in the running of a nursery and pre-school facility for 2, 3 and 4 year olds.

This is a chance to join a highly experienced and professional team with the aim of providing an excellent early years setting for local children. The successful candidate will be passionate about working in early years, supporting a team and someone who relishes the challenge of keeping practice current and relevant. Experience of supporting children effectively in an early years setting is essential to this role, as is the ability to be committed, enthusiastic, organised, efficient, flexible and friendly. Also, essential to this role is the ability to support children's social, emotional and mental health needs.

The desired candidate must be passionate about children's learning and development, have excellent communication skills, enjoy getting messy and embrace all aspects of learning indoors and outdoors, whatever the weather. A successful applicant must have a keen belief in a child centred approach and learning through play. They will share our passion for providing a creative curriculum and will share our love of child initiated open-ended investigation and exploration.

A level 3 early years qualification (NNEB, NVQ2, BTEC or equivalent) is an essential requirement. All applicants must have at least 1-year experience working within an early years setting.

The post will initially be for three days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday). Term time only excluding inset days with a view to claim additional hours where needed. There may also be an option to potentially support the other nursery/pre school settings with the Trust. This will be a fixed term contract until 31/08/26 which may be extended.

Further details and an application form can be obtained from https://www.primaryquest.co.uk/vacancies or vacancies@primaryquest.co.uk and completed application forms can be returned to admin@stauntoncorse.gloucs.sch.uk

The closing date for applications Friday 6th February 2026 and interviews will take place Monday 9th February.

Primary QuEST is committed to safeguarding children. We expect all staff to share this commitment and the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. As part of our recruitment process, we carry out online searches as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help to identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with an applicant at interview. You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 13.05-13.47 per hour

Expected hours: 19.5 per week

Work Location: In person