Nursery Teacher Starting September 2025

Full job description

Falkner House Nursery is looking for a passionate Early Years Teacher to deliver high-quality lessons while successfully nurturing and inspiring our students. As part of our energetic and welcoming team, you will enthuse and motivate students to strive for success while maintaining a healthy learning environment for all children within the school.

Level 3 or above Childcare qualifications are required.

As an Early Years Teacher, you will help the team to provide quality education and care for children from 2 to 4 years old, developing partnerships with parents and carers and acting as a key person to a group of children.

Key responsibilities are:

• Planning and providing a caring and stimulating environment for the children.
• Observing and assessing children’s development and keeping accurate records.
• Working as part of a team.
• Encouraging learning and development, through play and teaching.
• Creating a secure environment, using imagination to help children to learn.
• Working with parents to support their children.
• Enabling children to build their literacy, language and numeracy skills.
• Monitoring progress and planning educational games.
• Putting together activities which will keep the children engaged throughout the day.
• Helping children get ready for the transition into a classroom environment.
• Helping children to become more independent when carrying out daily tasks.
• Creating the right balance between activities and play time.

The successful candidate would have the following:

• Level 3 qualification or above in Childcare or equivalent.
• Understanding of the issues surrounding the safeguarding of children and commitment to child welfare and safety.

Falkner House has its own salary scale and staff are well looked after and rewarded.

Falkner House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and safeguarding checks will be undertaken on all successful applicants. As a teacher, they will be engaging in a regulated activity relevant to children, and the post is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. The school's Child Protection Policy is available for download.

https://www.falknerhouse.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CHILD-PROTECTION-SAFEGUARDING-POLICY-INCL.-KCSIE-2024-PART-1-AND-ANNEXES-A-AND-B-3.pdf

Please email the Falkner House application form and a covering letter to the school bursar, Mr Tim Larvin, at tlarvin@falknerhouse.co.uk. 

Closing Date: 27th March 2025. Interviews will be arranged individually.