Nursery Practitioner
Strode College
Somerset
- New
- Salary:
- £23,086 per annum pro rata (actual salary £19,168 per annum).
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2025
Job overview
Fixed Term Maternity Cover
Are you passionate and have an enthusiastic approach to early years? If so, we would love to hear from you. Strode College Day Nursery are looking to appoint a Nursery Practitioner to join our Ofsted ‘Good’ rated day nursery.
You will be passionate and talented and be able to work creatively to stimulate and engage the children. You will have a minimum Level 3 childcare qualification or working towards a Level 3. Knowledge of working ‘in the moment’ and maintaining a child centred and therapeutic approach is essential. SENCO experience is also desirable. Benefits include Local Government Pension scheme, friendly working environment, training/education opportunities, and access to whole college facilities.
Please see our Facebook page ‘Strode College Day Nursery’ to gain a better understanding of the ethos and approach to our nursery.
Strode College has a local and national reputation for excellence due to the outstanding quality of our teaching and support and the resulting high levels of student aspiration and achievements. We help students realise their potential, maximise their results and achieve success at college and in the future.
Contractual Details
Rate of Pay or Salary: £23,086 per annum pro rata (actual salary £19,168 per annum).
Working Time: 37.5 hours per week, 40 weeks per year, term time.
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Pension: Local Government Pension Scheme
Please visit the vacancies section of our website. If you require any further information or would like a confidential informal discussion about the role, please contact Terri Clemo on 01458 844468.
Please note the College will be closed for the Christmas break from 21st December 2024 until 5 January 2025 inclusive. If you do have any queries regarding the post or your application, please contact us before the 21 December.
Closing Date for applications: 5.00pm Monday 6 January 2025
Interviews planned for: Wednesday 15 January 2025
Strode College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.
About Strode College
Welcome to Strode College and thank you for taking an interest in our College.
We believe that every individual, no matter what their starting point, has the potential to achieve great things. We encourage all our students to be ambitious and believe they can succeed. We help them to realise their potential, maximise results and achieve success. This ethos runs through everything we do.
Highest quality further education
We are an Ofsted Good College located in Street, Somerset, offering a wide range of high quality education and training to the local community. Our Sixth Form has an outstanding reputation nationally for the exceptional progress that our students make. This means they are well prepared for future success, and we are incredibly proud of what our students go on to do after Strode College. In fact, we are one of the best performing colleges nationally for delivering outstanding student progress.
Highest quality university level education
We also offer high quality, local and affordable Higher Education. This quality has been recently externally validated by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education with a Silver Award in Teaching Excellence Framework, and we achieved the highest possible rating in our recent external quality review.
Adult courses for career development and leisure
As a local College, focused on supporting its community, we also provide a wide range of Adult courses. These include professional programmes for people looking to upskill within their current place of work or seek new skills for future careers and job opportunities. In addition, we offer leisure courses which you may want to take as a stepping stone onto a professional programme or just because it’s something you’re interested in!
Specialist work-based training
And finally, the College provides specialist work based training in the form of Apprenticeships and work related professional qualifications. Our dedicated Employer Engagement team works closely with local businesses to support them to meet their workforce development needs, translating this into a comprehensive training programme and also helping source new apprentices.
Enjoy an exceptional education
To sum up Strode College, it’s an amazing place to learn, with exceptional staff who are 100% committed to ensuring you achieve fantastic results, with an outstanding reputation locally and nationally; validated by our students’ achievements.
I’d like to invite you to come and see for yourself, so do please get in touch, we’ll be happy to show you around our fantastic college.
John Revill, Principal
View Strode College's latest Ofsted report
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