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Nursery Practitioner Level 3

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Our Cricklewood centre is a modern, high-quality setting will be filled with laughter, learning, and limitless opportunities—all in a warm, nurturing environment designed to give our children the best start in life. With space for up to 110 children, it's a place where your care and creativity will truly shine.

🚆 Excellent Transport Connections Just a 7-minute walk from Cricklewood Thameslink Station, with direct trains to Central London, Luton, and St Albans—ideal for commuters.

🚌 Well-Served by Local Bus Routes Multiple bus stops within a 3–7 minute walk, including Cricklewood Broadway and Sheldon Road, with access to routes: 16, 189, 226, 245, 260, 460, C11, plus night services N32 and N266.

📍 Easy Access from Nearby Areas

  • Kilburn – Just 2 minutes by train or 6 minutes by direct bus (C11)

  • Willesden – 6-minute direct bus ride via routes like 260 and 266

  • Golders Green – 10-minute journey via direct buses 245 and 460

Why You’ll Love Working With Us As A Nursery Practitioner

💷 Competitive pay£15.40 per hour!

🚀 Career growth – Ongoing professional development & progression

🎂 Birthday off – Because you deserve to celebrate YOU!

👶 50% childcare discount – Supporting your family while you support others

🏖 Up to 28 days holiday – Plus bank holidays!

💖 Menopause & family support – Helping you through life’s big moments

🧘 Health & wellbeing resources – Access to Hive, our amazing wellbeing & retail discount platform

🚴 Cycle to Work scheme – Because a healthy commute is a happy commute

💰 Pension & financial perks – Easy access to workplace pension & Salary Finance

🌏 Opportunities to travel – Learn from childcare professionals around the world

What to Expect as a Nursery Practitioner:

  • Create a Safe, Stimulating Environment: Prepare materials and arrange rooms to encourage children's growth and learning.
  • Lead Educational Activities: Plan and deliver activities that support children's physical, emotional, intellectual, and social development, aligned with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
  • Key Person Role: Oversee children’s development, care needs, and build strong family connections.

What We’re Looking For

  • Level 3 (or above) qualification in Early Years Education.
  • Proven experience in working with children under 5 and a genuine interest in early childhood education
  • Skills: Good communication capable or, excellent organisational skills, and the ability to apply knowledge of child development to plan and deliver activities.

At Busy Bees, we’re committed to care, quality, value, and service. If you have previous experience working with children, ideally as an Early Years Educator, Nursery Practitioner, Nursery Assistant or Nursery Nurse and you’re ready to make a meaningful impact in early childhood education we encourage you to apply!

What this role involves

General background for nursery worker roles. This listing’s own employer, location, pay and hours are shown above.

  • Help children to learn numeracy and language skills through games, singing and storytelling
  • Take children on outings
  • Feed and change babies
Typical pay (UK)
£16,000 starting · £24,000 experienced
Typical hours
30 to 40 a week
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