Role: Ref 11715 - Early Years Practitioner (aka Early Years Superhero) 

Location:  Witham, Essex.

Salary: £12.21 per hour

Contract/Hours: Permanent Part Time Fun – 16 hours per week covering Lunchtime. 

Closing Date: Thursday 14th August 2025.

Benefits:    

Time off to recharge - 33 Days leave per year.   

24/7 Confidential Helpline - speak to trained counsellors any time, 365 days a year, for emotional, wellbeing or mental health support.  

Enhanced Well-being -8 sessions In-Person, Phone, or Online Counselling or CBT.  

Treat yourself - Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15,000 + retailers.

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 - with excellent training/development opportunities.  

Salary Finance - access to financial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary.  

Secure your future - Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover. 

Why Spring Nurseries  

Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is a new adventure.  That's Spring Nursery! We're not just a nursery; we are a family dedicated to creating a joyful and nurturing environment where children thrive.  As part of Action for Children, we're on a mission to provide outstanding early education that's accessible to all.  

At Spring, we are committed to supporting your career growth! Check out our Spring Career Progression Map attached to this advert, which highlights the options for progression into a specialist role. 

A day in the life of an Early Years Superhero: 

Spring Harlequin is a full day 37 place Nursery for Children birth to 7 which includes wrap around care for breakfast and after school club years situated in a prime location in Witham Essex. Our staff strive to provide a stimulating, fun, exciting and educational environment. Our Nursery allows the Children freedom of play through our natural home from home organic way of learning. Our Children are supported to be the best version of themselves in our safe, warm and secure Nursery. We work closely with our Parents/Carers to follow the Children’s interests and support their goals ready for their next chapter when they leave for big School. We have a trained Senco lead as well as a lead PANCO to support all Children. We provide nutritious healthy cooked meals prepared by our qualified cook. Our Nursery children enjoy endless amounts of play opportunities indoors as well as outdoors in our spacious garden which includes a mud kitchen, fairy garden and challenging construction area. 

Your mission (should you choose to accept it)    

Working as part of a team to create a safe and stimulating environment for our children. 

Support and participate in planning exciting preschool activities that spark creativity and curiosity.

Prepare children for the next big adventure: School.  

Build strong relationships with parents/carers and families. 

Meet each child's unique needs with love and attention. 

Bring a positive attitude and make every day magical. 

What we need from you    

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

A passion to learn and develop whether you are new to the sector or an experienced practitioner. 

Experience working with children in an early years or childcare environment.

An understanding of children's development needs (0 to 5 years).

A positive attitude and a commitment to excellence. 

Ready to make a difference in the lives of children? Whether you're looking for a career change or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you! 

Apply now and help us give children a healthy start in life!  

Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at RecruitmentService@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting the above Reference.  

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 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.   

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.    

  
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.   

Want to know more about Spring and Oscars?   

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See below for further information about working with us:  

Employee Reward Booklet  

Spring Early Years Career Pathway  

Job Description