Early Years Practitioner

Les Petites Etoiles – West Hampstead

Salary: £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

7 weeks of paid holiday

Les Petites Etoiles is a bilingual group of nurseries offering a curriculum based on the Early Years foundation stage, the Montessori method and the French framework. Our staff are kind, responsive and excellent role models for the children in our settings.

Who are we looking for

You will be working mainly in the toddler room (18 months to 2.5 years) but we expect our candidates to be flexible to cover in other rooms.
We are looking for experienced practitioners with an NVQ Level 3 in childcare or above.

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 with 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