Early Years Practitioner

St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre, Bristol, BS2 9JF

21 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  14 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,185.00 - £31,022.00 Annually (FTE)

Early Years Practitioner job summary

Making a difference to young lives:

Do you want to work with children at the start of their journey, as they separate from parents and become independent learners? We are in the privileged position in Nursery to make a difference to the lives of very young children.

Help us to make sure they have a great start in life!

Our nursery is a happy, loving and vibrant place. We have a great reputation and work right across the SW region helping to inspire outstanding practice as the lead for Bristol & Beyond Stronger Practice Hub - so we have plenty of professional development opportunities for our brilliant team!

Available job opportunities:

1. A Full Time Permanent Early Years Practitioner

- BG5 - BG8 (depending on experience)

- All year round

- To work with our children aged 0-3 years

- We are looking for practitioners who:

Love young children, and find them interesting and joyful

Love getting struck in, and like a challenge

Are loving, warm, friendly, invitational and inclusive

Like the opportunity to try things out, lead on things, follow your interests

Want to get out and about

Enjoy responsibility, having fun and thinking about possibilities

In return we can offer:

A brilliant hardworking, fun, loving and highly experienced team, who will provide you with a great induction and ongoing support

Strong principles and values that underpin all we do, which put children’s interests at the heart of all we do

Supportive and challenging CPD opportunities, supervision, mentoring and coaching

A warm and inclusive environment with a focus on individual’s emotional well-being and work life support

Opportunities to learn, grow and lead

An exciting and diverse community and excellent partnership working

Please contact the setting for further details or an appointment to visit. Visits are highly recommended.

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

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 5
• Education phase: Nursery
• School size: 132 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 5
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-pauls-nursery-school-children-s-centre

This is an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified or experienced practitioner to join our outstanding, vibrant inner city Nursery School & Children’s Centre.
Come and join our exceptional, reflective, creative, sensitive and supportive staff team and be part of our happy setting.
At St Pauls we strive to ensure all our children, families and staff teams feel valued, are inspired by learning and thrive in our learning community.
We hope this sounds like the sort of place you want to work in.
St Pauls is also a National Teaching School, so offers high quality professional learning and development, plays host to many visitors and is involved in developing and sharing research. All staff have opportunities to get involved in deeper level thinking.

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