Lead Early Years Educator

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Lead Early Years Educator (Third in Charge)

Children 1st Shepshed Nursery School, 55 Forest Street, Shepshed, Loughborough LE12 9BZ

Lead Early Years Educator (Third in Charge)

Full Time, 40 Hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary starting from £14.25ph

Hi, I’m Amy, the Nursery Manager at Shepshed.

I’ve proudly been part of the Shepshed team for my entire 18-year childcare career—starting as a Nursery Nurse in the baby room and now, for the past 4 years, having the privilege of leading this incredible team as Manager.

My wonderful team is truly dedicated to delivering the highest quality of care and education, supporting each and every child to reach their full potential.

Our beautiful building and extensive gardens provide the perfect backdrop for a rich, engaging learning experience. With dedicated spaces for all age groups—including a unique outdoor classroom, planting areas, and opportunities for wildlife exploration—we nurture curiosity and spark imagination every day. Our children explore inspiring environments including our baking room, cosy story space, a home corner and large construction area.

Our newly refurbished baby room offers a calm, cosy, and nurturing space where our caring team follows each baby’s individual routine, creating a home-from-home environment right from the start.

We are looking for a passionate and ambitious Lead Early Years Educator (Third in Charge) who will work in partnership with the educator team to ensure the successful running of the nursery.

This nursery is part of Storal, a group of nurseries across England. It is our vision at Storal to be the nursery group that every family and educator wants to be part of. Our values are built around creating this environment for teams and children. We believe in high standards, praising each other, pulling together as a team whilst actively helping others to grow and that’s only the beginning of the story. We do what we say we do and if you align with this approach, then a Storal nursery is the place for you.

About the job:

Encourage a love of learning through high quality teaching under the EYFS framework

Ensure all children are kept safe and have rich stimulating experiences

Build relationships with the team to create an inspiring working environment

Leads, motivates and inspires the educator team

Be the third in command in the nursery after the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager

Identifying areas of change and implementing

About you:

Level 3 or above qualification within early years

Minimum of 6 months experience as an Early Years Educator (Nursery Nurse/Practitioner) or with children under the age of 5

Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS

Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together

What we can offer you:

Benefits at a glance

For you -We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain

Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more

Development - Investing in your future Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge

We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much much more

Storal is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employees will be subject to background checks, enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

EYED