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Early years Educator

Company:Playcare nursery
Salary:£13.31
Hours:Full-time
Location:Knottingley, WF11 9HQ
Working pattern:On-site
Job type:Permanent
Posting date:10 Aug 2026
Closing date:9 Sept 2026
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Summary

If you are committed to helping children to make progress every day, we would love to hear from you.

We can offer you:

● great, well resourced, learning environments

● collaborative approaches to teaching and learning

● fantastic professional development and tailored support programmes, specific baby training .

● unique and rewarding career progression opportunities

● a friendly caring workplace

We are looking for someone who:

● has energy, enthusiasm and is caring , calm, patient and nurturing.

● is passionate about children’s learning and development for children aged 3-5 years

● is eager to expand their knowledge, skills and understanding of supporting young children

● has experience of working in a variety of nursery settings

● has experience in supporting learning and development within the Early Years

● has at least Level 2 in English

The nursery truly is a wonderful place to be and we are so proud of it!

Playcare is a very successful village nursery who pride ourselves on the quality of care and education we offer each child that attends our nursery and we are looking for practitioners who want to be apart of a thriving nursery to join our journey and make an impact on children early years .

We are GOOD setting in all areas and have pride in our team .

Playcare is committed to safeguarding children. The successful candidate would be subject to an enhanced DBS check and must provide two suitable references.

What is it like working at playcare?

Our management team are focused and driven creating a wonderful, interesting, challenging, exciting working atmosphere for everyone. Emphasis on respecting a healthy work/life balance for all.

The senior leadership team are qualified and experienced to support your professional development and teaching ideas ensuring the quality of care, education and partnership with parents is of the highest standard.

The wonderfully talented, skilled, knowledgeable, nurturing team of nursery practitioners are inspirational in their every day practice and will support any new colleagues.

What more could you ask for right? Well we offer above national living wage, additional days holidays for service, discounted childcare, reward and recognition through the year, social event each year. Professional development with online training academy, company covering full costs of additional training such has higher level qualifications or to achieve relevant skills such as first aid. A wonderful light, bright building surrounded with trees and plenty of little creatures with vast outdoor space, plenty of fresh air and outdoor time

Weekend closure, Bank Holiday closures, a week closure at Christmas so you can enjoy those precious family times.

Look forward to hearing from you

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