Early Years Practitioner - Preschool

Les Petites Etoiles – Paddington

£25,985 to £29,945 (Please note, the higher salary bands are for people with level 6 and many years experience).

38 hours per week - Monday to Friday only

No sponsorship offered

7 weeks of paid holiday

Located a short walk from Paddington station Les Petites Etoiles is a private bilingual nursery offering a curriculum based on the Early Years foundation stage, the Montessori method and the French framework. We admit children to Les Petites Etoiles Paddington from 6 months until they are 4 years old.

Who are we looking for?

You will be working in our Montessori preschool room, where children are aged 18 months to 4 years.
We are only looking for experienced practitioners with an NVQ Level 3 in childcare or above. Preferred if Montessori diploma.

Benefits

• Sick pay

• High-quality training, including 8 paid inset days per year. During the year we invite some of the UK’s best trainers to deliver training to the team, and we are keen to pay for longer courses our staff are interested in.

• Termly Prizes

• Trip after 10 years

• Events

• Help for Bike Purchase

• Well-being program

• Free independent counselling service

• Free lunches (our food is homemade, organic and delicious!)

Safeguarding

Children and young people should never experience abuse of any kind.

We have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and young people, to keep them safe and to practise in a way that protects them.

All references will be thoroughly checked and we will apply for a DBS update service as well as a DBS equivalent from any country the applicant was in prior to the UK and within the last 5 years.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants equally without regard to age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

* on successful completion of probation