Working with us at St Pauls Nursery School means being part of something truly special – witnessing and nurturing those precious first steps as children transition from home to becoming confident, independent learners. We understand the profound privilege and responsibility of shaping young lives during these formative years, and our happy, loving, and vibrant environment reflects our commitment to giving every child the best possible start. As the lead for Bristol & Beyond Stronger Practice Hub, we don’t just deliver exceptional early years education – we inspire outstanding practice across the entire South West region, creating a wealth of professional development opportunities for our dedicated team. Join us in this rewarding journey where your expertise and passion will help lay the foundations for children’s lifelong love of learning, whilst you grow and develop within a nursery that’s recognised for its excellence and commitment to making a real difference in young lives.
Team Leader for Provision for 2 year olds
We are looking for a creative optimistic, personable and experienced early years Educator/Leader to join our ambitious leadership team, and to lead our ever growing provision for 2 year olds.
St Pauls is a complex, busy and joyful place to work. We do our very best for children and families in every way we can, and are so mindful of all their individual needs. Two year olds are a delight, and we have a great team of experts working with them who love being in their world and supporting their learning in an inspiring way, the team are a great bunch to work with.
Our 2 years old provision is all year round and runs as a business, so we need a leader who can help us keep full and keep thriving!
If you decide to join us at St Pauls we will offer you:
- Lots of support and understanding for you in your role, and a comprehensive induction
- Great CPD, supervision and mentoring
- Opportunities to lead on things that you are really passionate about
- Being part of an inspired learning community with strong distributed leadership
- A free lunch on Wednesdays!
St Pauls is also the Lead Setting for the Regional EYs Stronger Practice Hub which benefits us in so many ways. We lots of EYs specialists visiting or supporting us, a huge breadth of training and learning opportunities, and chances for you to get involved in delivering some mentoring, training, hosting etc yourself! It also means we have a good sense of the whole EYs landscape and national strategies in EYs which ensures we are all well informed.
St Pauls is a loving and happy workplace, where we care about the emotional well-being of our team, as well as our children and families. We have a real sense of togetherness, so at St Pauls you never face anything alone.
We look forward to hearing from you, and would highly recommend you come to visit us to see if we could be your next step!
Good luck with your application.
St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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Bilingual Support Worker
Come and join our outstanding and happy Nursery!
We are keen to recruit a Bilingual Support Worker working with children (3-4 year olds) and families in our busy nursery school.
We are looking for practitioners who:
- Have energy and passion about young children and their families
- Are solution focused and not afraid of new challenges
- Have the interpersonal skills and warmth to build authentic and respectful relationships with our children, families, team and community
- Enjoy learning, having fun and 'possibility thinking'
- Enjoy responsibility and challenge
In return we can offer:
- A committed and highly experienced team with pedagogical leadership at the heart
- A supportive and challenging CPD programme
- Supervision, mentoring and coaching
- A supportive and inclusive environment with a focus on individual's emotional well-being and work life support
- Opportunities to be a key person, deliver training or family support
- Opportunities to be involved in research and develop particular interests and expertise
- A loving team who will invest in you, and care about your personal and professional development
- A vibrant community, and excellent partnership working
St Pauls particularly encourages applications from suitably qualified Black and Minority Ethnic candidates and those who speak community languages, although all applications are warmly welcomed and will be considered on their merits.
Safeguarding and Child Protection is central to our work and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Please contact the setting for further details. Visits are highly recommended.
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Come and join our outstanding and happy Nursery! We are keen to recruit a Bilingual Support Worker working with children (3-4 year olds) and families in our busy nursery school. We are looking for pra...