Nursery Practitioner

🌟 Nursery Practitioner – Cannock – Start After October Half Term 🌟

Location: Cannock
Start Date: After October Half Term 2025
Contract: Until December 2025 (with potential for extension)

Are you an experienced and passionate Nursery Practitioner looking for your next opportunity in a nurturing and welcoming early years environment? Zest Education is delighted to be working with a fantastic nursery setting in Cannock that is seeking a dedicated practitioner to join their team after the October half term until the end of December 2025, with the possibility of this role being extended.

🏫 About the Nursery

This Cannock-based nursery is part of a supportive and well-established school community that places a strong focus on child-led learning. The setting offers a safe, caring, and stimulating environment where children are encouraged to explore and grow through play and interaction.

Staff at the nursery are highly experienced, collaborative, and passionate about early years education, making it an ideal place to develop your career while making a positive difference in children’s lives.

👩‍🏫 About the Role

As a Nursery Practitioner, your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the room leader in daily routines and activities

• Delivering engaging, age-appropriate learning experiences in line with the EYFS framework

• Providing emotional and educational support to children

• Promoting a safe, inclusive, and stimulating learning environment

• Observing and recording children’s progress

• Liaising with parents and carers, building strong relationships

This can be a full-time or part-time role ideal for someone who is enthusiastic, proactive, and passionate about giving children the best start in life.

✅ The Ideal Candidate

The nursery is looking for someone who has:

• A Level 3 Early Years qualification (preferred)

• Previous experience working with children

• A good working knowledge of the EYFS curriculum

• Strong communication and teamwork skills

• A nurturing, patient, and flexible approach to working with young children

• Confidence in behaviour management and safeguarding practices

💼 Why Join Zest Education?

Zest Education is a trusted education recruitment agency working with early years, primary, and secondary settings across the West Midlands.

We offer:

• Competitive rates of pay

• Access to long-term opportunities

• Local roles in and around Cannock and Staffordshire

• A friendly, experienced consultant team who listen to your needs

📩 How to Apply

If you’re a qualified Nursery Practitioner looking for a rewarding new challenge in a brilliant Cannock setting, we’d love to hear from you!

If you are interested in this position or want to find out more, email Charlotte at charlotte@zesteducation.co.uk or ‘apply for job’ at the top of the page to submit your details.

Zest Education are an APSCo audited agency and are dedicated to safeguarding children. All candidates must hold an enhanced DBS (or allow us to process one for you) and be registered to the DBS Update Service, be able to provide references to cover the last two years and successfully pass all other necessary safeguarding checks prior to clearance for work.

Salary is dependent on experience, training, or qualifications. The minimum experience, training, or qualifications required for this position are recent school-based experience (within the last 5 years within a school that teaches the British Curriculum) and/or care-based experience within the last 5 years.

The role advertised is for temporary supply work.

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