First things first
£28,080 to £31,200 per year. 40 hours per week. Monday to Friday. Level 2 or Level 3 qualified.
Sometimes a job advert doesn't need to make you hunt for the important bits.
Tiny Tots Recruitment is looking for a Qualified Nursery Practitioner in Pangbourne to join a long-established independent nursery caring for children from three months to five years.
This could particularly suit somebody who is tired of large nursery chains and wants to work somewhere smaller, family-owned and rooted in its local community.
More than 30 years in one village
The nursery has been family-owned since 1994.
That matters.
It means this isn't a new setting trying to work out what kind of nursery it wants to be. It has spent more than three decades caring for generations of local families and has built its approach around close relationships between children, practitioners and parents.
Children are divided into age-appropriate groups, with dedicated provision for babies and younger children before progressing into the older nursery and preschool rooms.
The setting's approach is focused on helping children develop:
Confidence Creativity Independence Social skills School readiness
without expecting every child to develop at exactly the same pace.
What will they actually expect from you?
You won't just be an extra pair of hands in the room.
The employer's current vacancy specifically includes responsibility for planning activities, meeting children's individual developmental needs and helping to support less experienced members of the team.
Your week will include:
Building secure relationships with your key children Planning activities around children's interests and development Supporting cognitive, physical, social and emotional development Observing and recognising children's individual needs Maintaining safe and stimulating nursery environments Supporting daily routines Building positive relationships with parents and carers Working closely with colleagues Helping newer or assistant practitioners where appropriate Encouraging children's confidence and independence Maintaining strong safeguarding standards Getting outside in every season, not just when the sun comes out
And according to the nursery's own recruitment advert, you should ideally also be capable of reading a story upside down while being interrupted four times per page.
Fairly standard early years requirement, really.
Food is taken seriously here too
One of the more distinctive parts of the nursery is that it employs a full-time chef, with meals freshly prepared on site using locally sourced produce wherever possible.
Dietary requirements are catered for, and meals form part of the nursery's wider approach to children's health and development.
For practitioners, it also means you're working somewhere where food provision isn't an afterthought or a tray arriving from somewhere else.
What they're offering £28,080 to £31,200 per year Permanent opportunity Full-time, 40 hours per week Monday to Friday Eight-hour working days Free parking On-site parking Company events Support obtaining First Aid certification if required Support obtaining the appropriate DBS certification Family-owned independent nursery Established setting operating since 1994 Opportunity to work across children aged three months to five years Experienced existing team
The nursery itself opens from 7:30am to 6pm, although the current vacancy states an eight-hour working day rather than expecting one person to cover the entire opening period.
Who would I say this suits best?
Someone who wants stability.
Someone who likes knowing the children and families they work with properly.
Someone who'd rather work in an established independent nursery than feel like employee number 684 within a national chain.
And someone who wants a decent qualified-practitioner salary without having to move into management to get beyond £30,000.
If you're looking for a Nursery Practitioner job in Pangbourne, Level 2 or Level 3 Early Years role near Reading or qualified nursery work in West Berkshire, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today through Tiny Tots Recruitment for a confidential conversation about the opportunity.