Lead Practitioner

Coombe Dingle, Bristol

Salary - £20,592– £21,112pa, plus £1000 higher education allowance, depending on qualification - Lead

We are currently recruiting Lead Practitioners to work at our Nursery in Coombe Dingle. We are a beautiful large setting based in Coombe Dingle, near Westbury on Trym, easily accessible, and we have been operating as a company for 10 years. We continually strive to do things better.

The Lead Practitioner is a development role, working as part of the room Management Team, with responsibility for the overall day to day running of the room, role modelling excellent practice and delegation of tasks.

You will work as a key member of the early year’s team delivering high quality, safe care and learning opportunities for all children based on their needs and interests.  To meet the obligations of a key person to children, evidencing child development progress and to effectively communicate this to parents or carers.

To be considered for this role you must hold an NVQ level 3 or equivalent Foundation Degree or BA in Early Years, with significant experience of working as a Childcare Practitioner.

What we offer you as a Lead Practitioner:

• £1000 recruitment bonus. £500 paid after your first month with us and the remaining £500 paid having successfully completed your probation. Please note should you leave the company within 12 months of starting you will be required to repay the bonus in full

• a child centric approach, we love the children to have as much fun and possible and to learn in the best environments

• a quality and professional environment. We are rated Outstanding with Ofsted and we help our Practitioners train and learn to this standard

• lovely people who work for Red Bus who are very team focused and work together

• a management team who listen and support and who importantly value the work our staff do in these important roles

• amazing environment for you and the children ! Fully resourced, continually changing, very much fun!

• significant learning and development opportunities for you to train and achieve your goals;

• a growing company with many career opportunities

• full time work on a 4.5 day week to give you a half day off,
• uniform
• easy parking
• company & staff events
• pension
• discounted childcare