3rd In Charge/Senior Nursery Nurse (Over 2's Room)
St Albans Fitness & Wellbeing Club | Permanent/fixed-term 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.
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This advert is for 3rd In Charge/Senior Nursery Nurse with Nuffield Health in St Albans, United Kingdom. It is listed as a Nursery nurse role. The application deadline is 06 Nov 2026.
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