Senior Early Years Educator


Company:	Nuffield Health
Salary:	£30,000 - £32,000
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	St. Albans, AL4 0AH
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	20 Aug 2026
Closing date:	2 Sept 2026

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Summary

Senior Nursery Nurse (Senior Early years Educator)

St Albans FWC | Childcare | Permanent contract | Full time

Up to £

32,000 per annum

depending on experience

40 hours per week

Our Nuffy Bear Day Nursery is seeking a Senior Early years Educator/Senior Nursery Nurse to be based at our nursery located in our Nuffield Health gym.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of the brilliant nurseries inside the UK's largest Healthcare Charity. We're looking for the right person to join us here and help ensure the best mix of high-quality care, learning and play.

As a Senior Early Years Educator it's important that you're qualified to NVQ Level 3 in childcare studies (or equivalent) and you have experience of working in a nursery setting.

As a Senior Practitioner, you will:

Lead a small team, ensuring the highest standards are maintained

Help deliver full day care, sessional care and pre-school for ages 3 months to 5 years

Promote health and wellbeing, helping children achieve the best possible start in life

Ensure that learning is linked to every child's development

Maintain great communication with parents, carers and external professionals

Be aware of and implement current legislation, know and implement safeguarding policies and procedures

Helping you feel good.

We promise that we will support you with training opportunities, career development options and our unique health & wellbeing focused benefits package.

This includes:

Free Gym membership across all our Fitness & Wellbeing clubs,

Discount off Nuffy Bear Day Nurseries.

Company Pension Scheme

Training and Development opportunities

We will also offer a range of lifestyle and financial wellbeing benefits. We want to help you live well and get the balance right in life, so we will give you 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and this will increase as you build your career with us, plus much more.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

It starts with you.

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