Room Leader

Room Leader

Post available: Room Leader

Salary: £28,978-35,547 dependent on experience and hours

Employer: Little Learners Nurseries Group

Contract Type: 36 or 40 hours per week

Contract Term: Permanent (52 weeks)

Closing date: 30/06/2025

Start Date:  September 2025

Our nurseries are growing and we have excellent professional development opportunities for enthusiastic and committed EYFS practitioners. Little Learners Nursery group is made up of St Saviour’s Nursery (Ofsted grade outstanding) and St Mary’s Nursery (Ofsted grade outstanding).  We provide a nurturing and safe environment in which children thrive as they learn.  In 2019 we opened ‘Little Learners in Nature’ which is an outdoor provision, based at St Saviour’s, that draws on the principles of forest school. The children spend the day playing and learning outside and have access to ponds, tepees, mud kitchens, hammocks, a fire pit, a stone circle, a willow arch, bug hotels, and a giant den-making zone.  They also get to care for our three resident alpacas!

We can offer you a wonderful and well-resourced learning environment. We are a strong, experienced, hard-working and friendly staff team We are looking to recruit a Room Leader for St Mary’s. You will be an excellent Early Years practitioner looking for an exciting opportunity to help the Nurseries to build.

You will:

• Provide the children with a safe, secure and home like environment
• Have a working knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage
• Operate a key person system and liaise with parents, carers, and senior staff
• Plan, organise and implement a programme of activities to meet the needs of this age group and each individual child’s needs and interests
• Work as part of a highly motivated and professional team
• An appropriate qualification (Level 3)/ appropriate experience in this age range

We can offer:

• Enthusiastic, well-behaved children who are eager to learn
• Excellent career development
• Christmas bonus
• Guaranteed rest day on your birthday
• Birthday gift
• A team building day with fun activities
• Annual Christmas party
• A special lunch provided once a term

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Criminal Records Bureau. References will be taken up before interviews are offered.

Early application is encouraged as we review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert earlier than the stated deadline.

Contact Information

An application pack can be accessed via the advert.

All completed application forms should be returned to Alison Brown

Email: Alison.brown@genesistrust.net

Address: St Saviour, 33 Verulam Avenue, E17 8ER

Telephone: 0208 520 0612