Early Years Educator

Overview

Nursery:
Hemsley House Nursery School, Maidstone, Kent, ME16

Hours:
Full Time, Monday - Friday and casual roles available

Salary:
Up to £14.50 per hour (dependent on qualifications and experience)

Benefits:
Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much more

Hemsley House spans two beautifully converted Victorian homes in Maidstone, just a 10-minute walk apart. Both buildings have a welcoming, home-from-home feel and are full of original charm, including stunning stained-glass windows.

Our large garden areas offer our children the freedom to explore and enjoy outdoor adventures. With features like a preschool camp area, teepees, a mud kitchen, and climbing equipment, the outdoors becomes an extension of the learning environment.

Inside, our designated preschool classroom supports school readiness in a focused, nurturing setting. Our experienced and passionate team brings a wealth of early years knowledge, tailoring each child’s experience to their pace, needs, and interests.

At Hemsley House, we encourage independence, imagination, and a love of learning every single day—laying strong foundations for a happy and confident future.

Who & What is Storal?

It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily a part of here at Hemsley House. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all. Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better.

Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community.

As an Lead Nursery Practitioner, you will be a key part of keeping our children safe, loved and inspired to learn. Key activities include:

• Encouraging a love of learning through high quality teaching under the EYFS framework
• Ensuring all children are kept safe and have rich stimulating experiences
• Building relationships with the team to create an inspiring working environment
• Leading, motivating and inspiring the educator team
• Being 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
• Experience working with all age groups within Early Years
• Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS

Benefits at a glance

• For you - We get the basics right: enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with Pay Captain
• Family matters - Balance starts at home:
  Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)
• Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind:
  Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more
• Development - Investing in your future:
  Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund
• Our community - Growing together:
  Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering

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Enhanced DBS check and subscription to the DBS Update Service. We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much more. We care about our people. Curious to know more? We’d love to tell you more about what makes Hemsley House so special.

Storal is the highest of standards when it coming 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 through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.