Spring

Early Years Practitioner Level 3

Langport

£28.7k/yr

Posted about 13 hours ago

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Early Years Practitioner (Qualified)

Location: Langport, Somerset

Salary: up to £28,663 per annum

Contract/Hours: Permanent/Full Time – 40 hours per week. (part time applications considered)

Closing date: Midnight on the 13th of August 2026

Benefits:

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Professional qualifications and excellent training
Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
Up to 5% employer contribution and life assurance cover
Blue Light Card eligibility with discounts at 15,000 national retailers

About the role

As a qualified Early Years Practitioner, you’ll play a key role in the nursery’s daily routine, leading your room to deliver high quality early years education and care for all children. You will plan, implement and review engaging activities that promote learning and development in line with the EYFS, ensuring every child thrives in a safe, stimulating, and inclusive environment.

In this role, you will support and guide other practitioners’ model best practice, and help maintain strong, positive partnership with parents and carers. You'll be responsible for completing accurate and up-to-date observations assessments and records.

In this role, you will:

Support children's learning and development through planned activities and spontaneous play opportunities.
Build warm, professional relationships with children, parents, and colleagues.
Observe, assess, and record children's progress in line with the EYFS.
Help create a safe, stimulating, an inclusive environment.
Contribute to daily routines, including mealtimes, personal care, and transitions.
Work as part of a team to maintain high standards of care, safeguarding and well-being.

What we need from you

In the role of Early Years Practitioner (qualified), we're ideally looking for someone who has:

Level 3 early years and childcare qualification e.g., NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education.
A thorough knowledge of children's developmental needs from 0 to 5 years.
Experience working and leading in an early year setting.
Strong planning, observation and reflection of children and their learning.
Effective communication skills across multiple age groups.
Paediatric First Aid qualification.

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About the nursery

Located in the heart of Langport, Spring The Levels offers a warm calm and a safe and stimulating environment for children aged 3 months to five years.

A setting within a vibrant children centre, who are passionate about nurturing curiosity, confidence and creativity through play-based learning.

As a Senior practitioner, you’ll join our dynamic team, working together to support each child’s learning to ensure each day is fun and engaging.

Why Spring Nurseries

Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is new adventure. At Spring Nurseries, we're more than a collection of settings, we are a family, dedicated to nurturing children to thrive and supporting staff through a clear career pathway.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.

Contact

If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at RecruitmentService@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13433.

We'll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

At Spring Oscars we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity for all groups.

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

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If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the Job Description when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

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We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather, we didn't do that.