Senior Early Years Educator
Stockingford Maintained Nursery SchoolEarly Years
Status
Live Now
Date Listed21 September 2026
ContractFULL_TIME
Listing TypeDfE_TV
About This Role
- Relevant Level 3 Early Years or equivalent childcare Qualification
- Knowledge/understanding of the Foundation Stage Curriculum
- Understand schools policies and how they relate to local and national framework/policies
- A commitment to further professional development
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Experience of working with children within 0-5 age group
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Able to relate well to children and adults
- Have experience of ICT as a learning/communication tool
- Have good communications skills
- Have good listening skills
- Be patient
- Able to work effectively in a team and to work on own initiative as appropriate
- Able to take responsibility for an area of learning within the nursery
- Able to supervise and train NVQ or work experience students
- Have good organisational skills
- Able to take responsibility for an area of the curriculum
- Able to organise and lead activities for parents and/or younger children
- Able to lead staff team INSET
- Be sensitive to the needs of children
- Be flexible and adaptable
- Be trustworthy and discreet, maintain confidentiality
- Be able to establish clear boundaries
- Have a good sense of humour
- Have good interpersonal skills
- Be able to work sensitively with colleagues and a range of professionals and children
- Be able to exercise initiative and independent action
- Be pro-active in offering ideas and contribute to whole school review
- Have confidence to review own performance and that of others (e.g. students)
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Demonstrate creativity and imagination, showing an
ability to adapt teaching styles to the needs of groups or individual children