Nursery Educators – Children 1st @ Sheffield
Remarkable future starts here.
Nursery: Children 1st Sheffield Nursery School, Scotland Street, Sheffield S3 7BS.
Hours: Casual, variable hours, Monday‑Friday, Full Time and Part Time.
Salary: £12.90 per hour to £13.30 per hour (salary will depend on qualifications and experience).
Qualification: Must hold a Level 2 or above in Childcare.
We’re Louise and Deborah, the Nursery Managers at Sheffield Nursery.
With over 50 years of combined experience in early years, we are deeply dedicated to creating a warm, caring, and inspiring environment for every child in our care.
Located in the heart of Sheffield, our nursery takes great pride in delivering outstanding early years education to our wonderfully diverse and culturally enriched community. Every day, we strive to create an inclusive space where all children feel welcomed, valued, and inspired to learn.
Children thrive through imaginative play in our thoughtfully designed learning spaces—such as our vibrant marketplace role‑play area, which encourages creativity and collaboration.
We embrace and celebrate the rich diversity of our community, marking a variety of cultural festivals throughout the year with our children and their families—fostering a strong sense of belonging and mutual respect.
Impact Lives, with a Schedule That Works for You.
Sheffield’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 providecover for the children asand when needed. This could befor periods of holiday, sickness, or evenvacancy gaps. Sometimes you’ll support forafull day, or it may just be amorning or afternoon session. You’ll likely start most of yourdays with afully formulated plan…. That will soonget completely derailed though… Pivoting when the circumstances call for it is a regular occurrence in child care!
Creativity is key. Teaching young children allows forhands onarts 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 theEYFS standards, but that doesn’t stop you from engaging your creative flair and enthusiasm for learning.
What you’ll need
- A full and relevant Level 2 or above qualification within early years. (We can sometimes consider unqualified Educators, as long as they demonstrate the necessary qualities, values and enthusiasm for working within this environment. If you think you’ve got the right attitude and abilities, submit an application, who knows it might be the best thing you ever did. Nothing ventured nothing gained!)
- 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
- For you – We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and you can access your pay before payday with Pay Captain.
- Family matters – Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity leave.
- Health & wellness – Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets.
- Development – Investing in your future with micro-learning, financial stability tools & the Storal Support Fund.
- Our community – Growing together Termly inset days, team member app and Storal Awards.
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Click apply today, don’t worry if your CV isn’t perfect just send us what you have and we’ll work out the rest later.
Storal sets the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and the team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.
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