Remarkable future starts here
Nursery: Children 1st Chesterfield Nursery School by Storal
Address: Dryhurst House, Car Park 4, Calow, Chesterfield, S44 5BL
Hours: Monday - Friday, Zero hour contract hours to be discussed
Salary: £12.71 per hour - £13.30 per hour. Salary will depend on qualifications and experience
Hello, I'm Katie, the Nursery Manager at Chesterfield. I have been part of the Chesterfield team for over 15 years. Alongside my deputy manager, we bring a wealth of early years knowledge and lead a dedicated, long standing team-all committed to providing the best care and learning experiences for our children.
Housed in a beautiful Grade II listed building, our nursery offers a true home from home atmosphere, where every child is warmly welcomed into a close knit and nurturing environment.
We place a strong focus on connecting with nature through our outdoor spaces, which include a teepee, vegetable patch, sensory garden, and apple trees-inviting children to explore, discover, and learn throughout all seasons.
Storal's Purpose
To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life.
How you'll spend your time here
You'll be helping to cover for the children as and when needed. This could be for periods of holiday, sickness, or even vacancy gaps. Sometimes you'll support a full day, or it may just be a morning or afternoon session. You'll likely start most of your days with a fully formulated plan that will soon get completely derailed. Pivoting when the circumstances call for it is a regular occurrence in child care!
Creativity is key
Teaching young children allows for hands on arts and crafts, storytelling, exercise, and educational games. It's important to keep things fresh and try new activities to keep attention spans engaged. Of course we work within the EYFS standards, but that doesn't stop you from engaging your creative flair and enthusiasm for learning.
We'd love to talk to you if you have the following
Ideally hold a Level 2 or above qualified Early Years Educator / Practitioner / Nursery Nurse, or similar, and you're looking for an Early Years Educator/Nursery Nurse/Early Years Practitioner role that allows you flexibility of working shifts around your other commitments.
You enjoy supporting and encouraging the natural curiosity and excitement of young children and were born to teach and shape the future of our younger generations. You have a natural, nurturing, openness, warm and positive outlook, and you care about learning and education standards in the UK.
We can sometimes consider unqualified educators if you can demonstrate the necessary values, enthusiasm, and desire to work in this environment.
What you'll need
- A full and relevant Level 2 or above qualification within early years.
- Experience as an Early Years Educator (Nursery Nurse/Practitioner) or having worked with children under the age of 5 is advantageous.
- Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS is desirable.
- Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together.
Benefits for You
Basic - enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and access to pay before payday with Pay Captain.
Family matters - balance starts at home child care discount + funding, compassionate leave and enhanced maternity leave.
Health & wellness - nourishing body & mind partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility and menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets.
Development - investing in your future with micro learning, financial stability tools and the Storal Support Fund.
Our community - growing together termly inset days, team member app, and Storal Awards.
Storal sets the highest of standards when it comes to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that encourages feedback, discussion and resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete thorough compliance checks prior to employment including employment references and DBS.
