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Early Years Practitioner Unqualified
full-time•Taunton
About this role
Early Years Practitioner (Unqualified)
Location: Taunton, Somerset
Salary: up to £25,699per annum
Contract/Hours: Permanent/Full Time – 40 hours per week.
Closing date: Midnight on the 11th of February 2026
Benefits:
- Time off to recharge – 25 days per year plus bank holidays
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
- Treat yourself: Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15,000 + retailers.
- Enhanced Well-being: 8 sessions In-Person, Phone, or Online Counselling or CBT
- Salary Finance – access to financial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary.
- Childcare Discount – A whopping 60% off childcare within our nurseries and out of school clubs
- Up to 3 Days Dependency Leave – to care for dependents in an emergency.
- Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave.
- Secure your future: Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
- 24/7 Confidential Helpline speak to trained counsellors any time, 365 days a year, for emotional, wellbeing or mental health support.
Why Spring Nurseries
Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is a new adventure. That's Spring Nursery! We're not just a nursery; we are a family dedicated to creating a joyful and nurturing environment where children thrive. As part of Action for Children, we're on a mission to provide outstanding early education that's accessible to all.
At Spring, we are committed to supporting your career growth! Check out our Spring Career Progression Map attached to this advert, which highlights the options for progression into a specialist role.
About the Nursery:
Spring Bishops Hull is a welcoming 32-place nursery offering flexible care for children aged three months to five years. Our setting provides a bright, modern and engaging environment where children feel safe, valued and inspired to explore the world around them.
Our team is passionate about helping every child discover their individuality and creativity, supporting them to reach their full potential. We encourage learning through play, exploration and meaningful experiences, with staff planning open-ended, stimulating activities that spark curiosity and imagination.
We take pride in building strong, trusting relationships with each child and their family, fostering a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where everyone feels part of the nursery community.
About the role:
As an unqualified Early Years Practitioner, you’ll play an important role within our nursery team, working closely with experienced practitioners to help create a safe, happy and engaging environment where every child can thrive. This is an active and rewarding role, supporting children throughout their day and helping to ensure they leave with a smile.
You will assist with play‑based learning activities, help to set up inspiring learning environments, and support children with daily routines such as mealtimes, outdoor play and rest periods. Most importantly, you will build warm, positive relationships with the children and be a friendly, reassuring presence throughout their day.
This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about working with children and eager to begin a career in early years. You’ll be supported as you learn on the job, developing your skills and confidence with guidance from our experienced team.
How you’ll help create brighter futures
- Work as part of a team to create a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment for our children.
- Support and contribute to planning exciting, play‑based activities that spark creativity and curiosity.
- Help prepare children for their next big adventure — school.
- Build strong, positive relationships with parents, carers and families.
- Meet each child’s unique needs with care, attention and understanding.
- Bring a positive attitude and help make every day magical for the children in our care.
Let’s talk about you
In the role of Early Years Practitioner (Unqualified), we're ideally looking for someone who has:
- A passion for learning and developing — whether you're new to the sector or already have experience.
- Experience working with children in an Early Years or childcare environment.
- An understanding of children’s developmental needs from birth to five years.
- A positive attitude and a commitment to delivering high‑quality care and experiences.
Ready to make a difference in the lives of children? Whether you're looking for a career change or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you!
Apply now and help us give children a healthy start in life!
Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected] quoting reference 12537.
We'll be happy to give you any support you require.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.
Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the Job Description when applying.
We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.
Talent Pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.
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What you'll do
- As an unqualified Early Years Practitioner, you will assist with play-based learning activities and help create a safe and engaging environment for children. You will support children with daily routines and build positive relationships with them.
About Spring
Modern, high quality childcare provision for children from birth to 11 years
across 49 centres in the UK.Settings that feel fresh, warm, and cheerful - a nurturing, positive and energetic atmosphere that feels like a sociable breath of fresh air.
A bright place where a professional and caring team inspire and enable children to discover their individuality and creativity giving them a positive attitude to learning and confidence to move on to primary school.
A place where parents are involved in their children’s learning, have the confidence that their children will begin their journey through educational play, early
language, healthy lifestyles and an understanding of the world, learning all the skills they need to help them grow and flourish.
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