Lead Early Years Educator

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Lead Early Years Educator (Third in Charge)

• Children 1st Shepshed Nursery School, 55 Forest Street, Shepshed, Loughborough LE12 9BZ

• Lead Early Years Educator (Third in Charge)

• Full Time, 40 Hours per week, Monday to Friday

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• Salary starting from £14.25ph

Hi, I’m Amy, the Nursery Manager at Shepshed.

I’ve proudly been part of the Shepshed team for my entire 18-year childcare career—starting as a Nursery Nurse in the baby room and now, for the past 4 years, having the privilege of leading this incredible team as Manager.

My wonderful team is truly dedicated to delivering the highest quality of care and education, supporting each and every child to reach their full potential.

Our beautiful building and extensive gardens provide the perfect backdrop for a rich, engaging learning experience. With dedicated spaces for all age groups—including a unique outdoor classroom, planting areas, and opportunities for wildlife exploration—we nurture curiosity and spark imagination every day. Our children explore inspiring environments including our baking room, cosy story space, a home corner and large construction area.

Our newly refurbished baby room offers a calm, cosy, and nurturing space where our caring team follows each baby’s individual routine, creating a home-from-home environment right from the start.

We are looking for a passionate and ambitious Lead Early Years Educator (Third in Charge) who will work in partnership with the educator team to ensure the successful running of the nursery.

This nursery is part of Storal, a group of nurseries across England. It is our vision at Storal to be the nursery group that every family and educator wants to be part of. Our values are built around creating this environment for teams and children. We believe in high standards, praising each other, pulling together as a team whilst actively helping others to grow and that’s only the beginning of the story.

We do what we say we do and if you align with this approach, then a Storal nursery is the place for you.

• Encourage a love of learning through high quality teaching under the EYFS framework
• Ensure all children are kept safe and have rich stimulating experiences
• Build relationships with the team to create an inspiring working environment
• Leads, motivates and inspires the educator team
• Be the third in command in the nursery after the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager
• Identifying areas of change and implementing

• Level 3 or above qualification within early years
• Minimum of 6 months experience as an Early Years Educator (Nursery Nurse/Practitioner) or with children under the age of 5
• Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS
• Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together

Enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with Pay Captain.

Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more

Micro‑learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge.

We partner with world‑leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much, much more.

Storal is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employees will be subject to background checks, enhanced DBS check and reference checks.