Early Years Teacher

Job Title: Early Years Teacher

Bright Horizons Tooting Looking Glass Day Nursery and Preschool

Job Type: (Full Time / 40 hours per week / Mon - Fri)

Salary: £30,581 - £36,963 per annum (dependant on experience)

Location: Tooting Bec

If you hold QTS, EYTS, EYPS, or a Level 6 Early Years qualification, and have a passion for teaching and developing little minds – our Early Years Teacher opportunity would be perfect for you.

Why Bright Horizons?

We care for over 10,000 children across the UK, across our portfolio of over 300 nurseries, 98% of which are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. We’re on a mission to change the future for children, families, and the people we work with, and are committed to progressive working values like flexibility, work-life balance, and wellbeing.

Our Bright Horizons Tooting Looking Glass is Ofsted rated Good, and is situated near the scenic Tooting Bec Common, our Tooting Looking Glass Day Nursery and Preschool in Tooting Bec is conveniently located a 10 minute walk from Tooting Bec Station, and a short drive to Tooting town centre.

What you’ll be doing

• Plan and develop rich learning opportunities and exceptional care, that helps all children to develop, and meets their individual needs
• Make accurate and effective assessments, which reflect the needs, interests, and stages of each child, through supporting the delivery of the key person approach
• Ensure the environment is providing consistent stimulating and inspiring activities for the children, across both the indoor and outdoor areas
• Develop and maintain strong parent/ carer partnerships
• Promote and ensure child welfare, protection, health and safety and safeguarding procedures and policies are followed at all times
• Work with colleagues to maintain a positive, happy and safe environment on a day to day basis

What we can offer you

Our benefits include, but are not limited to;

• Career development opportunities across our network of nurseries
• Amazing discounts, ranging from childcare to high-street, to utility and days out!
• Quarterly Employee Appreciation Weeks – with treats for all the team
• External helpline with professional counsellors – supporting your wellbeing 24 hours a day.
• Access to our extensive library of training and qualifications, to support your continuous development

What we’re looking for

• Hold either Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS), Early Years Practitioner Status (EYPS), or a full and relevant Level 6 Early Years Qualification
• Previous experience working within the Early Years sector
• Sound understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage
• Passion for making learning fun and engaging for each child
• Ability to build trust and strong working relationships with both colleagues and parents
• Ability to use a variety of techniques to clearly and successfully communicate with both children and adults
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and the wider legislative requirements for working with children

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

We look forward to receiving your application!

If you experience any problems, please email europe.recruitment@brighthorizons.com and we will be happy to help.

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application that you disclose any information requested in respect of applicable convictions and cautions (including, as applicable any reprimands or final warnings). This post may be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, in which case applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act unless the conviction or caution is “protected” as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). Any such ‘protected’ conviction or caution is not subject to disclosure to employers, and cannot be taken into account. All guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found in the DBS filtering collection, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-filtering-guidance . The fact that a pending charge, conviction, caution, reprimand or final warning has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this role but any failure to disclose any such information will result in dismissal or disciplinary action.