Nursery Assistant

Looking for a Part time Level 3 role where you’ll feel valued, supported, and part of a fantastic team? Join us at The Beaconsfield Day Nursery & Pre School where we have recently increased our salaries to reflect the importance of our early year’s professionals.

• Garvin Avenue, Beaconsfield, Bucks, HP9 1RD
  
• Full-time – 15 hours per week (5 days)
  
• £15 per hour - Enhanced salary following a recent pay increase
  
• Lunch cover - Monday to Friday - 11.30am - 2.30pm
  

At Beaconsfield Day Nursery, we provide a warm, nurturing, and stimulating environment where children feel safe, happy, and encouraged to thrive. With caring staff, engaging activities, and a focus on learning through play, we help every child grow in confidence, creativity, and independence.

When you join The Beaconsfield, you're joining a family — one that values, supports, and uplifts each team member.

Why Join Us? (Family First Nurseries)

We truly value our team and offer an excellent benefits package, including:

• £1000 Welcome Bonus*!
  
• Referral Programme: Refer a friend and earn up-to £750
  
• Employee Childcare Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team members’
  
• Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays - Christmas Closure
  
• Health and Wellbeing: Confidential employee assistance helpline available 
  
• Career Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
  

As a Nursery Practitioner, you will:

• Ensure that each child’s individual needs are met and a high standard of professional care and education is delivered in a caring, safe and secure environment in which all children can play, learn and develop.
  
• Observe, assess and plan an interesting, stimulating and challenging range of early years activities which supports each child’s individual learning and development needs and abilities.
  
• Engage as a professional member of the team, exhibiting a flexible attitude and willingness to develop new skills
  
• Ensure that company policies and procedures are read, applied, regularly reviewed and adhered to by all
  
• Follow risk assessments diligently and report all health and safety matters to management.
  
• Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development
  

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

As a Nursery Practitioner, you will need:

• Full and relevant Level 3 childcare qualification - essential
  
• Fluent in written and spoken English - essential
  
• Over 1 year’s experience of working in Early Years - desirable
  
• Knowledge of the Statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - desirable
  

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.

The Beaconsfield Day Nursery and Preschool is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.