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Early Years Educator
Loughborough University Nursery
Full time position working 37.5 hours per week, flexible working between 7.30am and 6pm
Rate of pay - £11.40 per hour
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a paid leave day for your birthday, free access to our on-site gym facilities at Burleigh Springs, free meal on shift, free car parking & enrolment into company pension scheme.
We have a unique opportunity for a Level 3 practitioner experienced in implementing the EYFS to join our amazing team. The ideal person must love working with children, be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, trustworthy, conscientious and a desire to continually develop their skills.
A current paediatric First Aid qualification is preferable. In return, you will receive a competitive salary, the opportunity to enhance your skill set with our employee training and development programme.
About Us
Loughborough University Nursery offers a 100-place nursery for children aged 0-5 years for university staff, students and the local community. Creating a place where children love to be. Our vision is simple…to build a worldclass nursery that consistently delivers fabulous learning, play and fun.
We bring families and children together. For our families this means delivering an exemplary service that respects and honours the needs of every child, celebrating their contribution and building on our key values of care, education and play.
For our team, that means celebrating individuality, striving to identify talent, and giving everybody the opportunity to grow. We provide a safe, inclusive, and fun environment built on our key value of kindness.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expect our employees to share this commitment. Successful appointment is subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check.
If you would like to come and meet the team and look around the nursery, please contact Jo Thomson on nursery@lboro.ac.uk
We are part of the Imago Venues family and we contribute to making Imago Venues a fabulous place to work. We care about our people and we’re kind to each other. We’re ambitious, ethical, sustainable and, most importantly, we’re accountable.
To apply for the position please log onto the Imago Venues website and select the current vacancies page. To find out more about the role click here
Closing date: 22nd January 2024
Loughborough University Nursery is an equal opportunities employer