Early Years Practitioner Level 3

Early Years Practitioner (Level 3)

Location: Leiston

Salary: £27,000 per annum

Contract/Hours: Permanent Full-Time – 40 hours per week (12 months)

Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 18th Of October 2026

Benefits

• Time off to recharge - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Treat yourself: Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15,000 + retailers
• Salary Finance – access to financial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary
• Childcare Discount – A whopping 60% off childcare within our nurseries and out of school clubs
• Up to 3 Days Dependency Leave – to care for dependents in an emergency.
• Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Secure your future: Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover

We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know…

About Spring

Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright, engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team.

Join us and you can look forward to:

• A kind, caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing, both physical and mental.
• Flexible working – wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
• Lots of opportunities for training, learning, development, including gaining qualifications.
• Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.

A bit about the role

As a Level 3 practitioner, your support high quality early years care and education in a nurturing, play based environment, helping children learn, develop and thrive.

What you'll be doing

In the role of ROLE you'll be:

• Deliver engaging, age-appropriate activities in line with the EYFS
• Support children's learning, development and well-being through play
• Build positive relationships with children, parents and the team
• Observe, assess and contribute to children's learning journeys
• Maintain a safe, inclusive and caring environment
• Work as part of a team to ensure high standards of care and safeguarding

What we need from you

In the role of ROLE we're ideally looking for someone who has:

• A Level 3 early years and childcare qualification (NNEB, CACHE, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent)
• A passion for continuous learning and growth, Aligned with our core values and the Spring career pathway
• An understanding of children's development needs (0 to 5 years)
• A positive attitude and a commitment to excellence

A Bit about The Nursery

Spring Layfield is based at Layfield Primary School, caring for children aged 3 months to 4 years with a wrap around and holiday provision including breakfast and after school clubs for children up to 11 years.

Our two bright, child-centred rooms encourage independence and exploration, with free flow access to beautiful outdoor areas, a forest school, and allotment. We're proud of our strong partnership with the primary school being fully engaged with the local community.

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: Shannon Neander at Sign in to view email quoting reference 13768

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 to all groups.

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

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Don't meet every single requirement?

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 JD and Person Specification when applying.

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

Talent Pool: 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.

If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Partner

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

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