Job Description

Location:

Winlaton, Blaydon on Tyne

Salary:

26,300 - 27,200 pro rata (depending on experience)

Contract/Hours:

Permanent/Part Time - 20 hours per week

Closing date:

Midnight on the 11 th of February 2026

Benefits:

Time off to recharge

- 25 days plus bank holidays

24/7 Confidential Helpline

- speak to trained counsellors any time, 365 days a year, for emotional, wellbeing or mental health support.

Enhanced Wellbeing

-8 sessions In-Person, Phone, or Online Counselling or CBT

Treat yourself

- Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15,000 & retailers

Childcare Discount

- Enjoy 60% off childcare within our nurseries and out of school clubs

Up to 3 Days Dependency Leave

- to care for dependents in an emergency. Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave

Gain professional qualifications

- with excellent training/development opportunities

Salary Finance

- access to financial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary

Secure your future

- Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover

Why Spring Nurseries

Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is new adventure. At Spring Nurseries, where more than a collection of settings, we are a family, dedicated to nurturing children to thrive and supporting staff through a clear career pathway.

About the nursery

Spring Blaydon is a small, cosy nursery set within the grounds of a local primary school, offering a warm and welcoming environment where children feel safe, valued and ready to learn. The team plays a strong emphasis on storytelling, songs and rhymes, creating a language rich setting that supports early communication and the love of learning from the very start.


The team work closely together to provide a nurturing, play based curriculum where every child is encouraged to explore, develop independence and thrive at their own pace.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Early Years Practitioner to play key leadership role within our nursery. In this position, you'll support the development, well-being in care of children across the setting while guiding and inspiring colleagues around you.


As Senior Practitioner, you'll take responsibility for the day-to-day running of your designated room, ensuring a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment where every child can thrive.


You'll be a role model for best practise, supporting staff development and maintaining high standards of care and education in line with the regulatory requirements and on nursery values.

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. 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.

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

Contact:

If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at RecruitmentService@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 12540 .


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.

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 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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