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: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,064.00 - £31,022.00 Annually (FTE)

Early Years Practitioner job summary

Come and join our outstanding Nursery School and Children’s Centre in our newly refurbished environment.

We need to recruit an:

Early Years Practitioner: BG8, 18.5 Hours (2.5 days), TTO

1/9/26 - 31/8/27 or sooner dependant on return of member of staff

This role is to work in our Nursery School as a key person and member of a responsive and innovative teaching team.

We are looking for practitioners who:

Have energy and passion about young children and their families

Are solution focused and not afraid of new challenges

Have the interpersonal skills and warmth to build authentic and respectful relationship with our children, families, team and community

Can share their own learning and inspire learning in others

Understand the importance of accountability and are able to evidence the impact of their work

Enjoy responsibility and challenge

Enjoy having fun and thinking anything is possible!

In return we can offer:

A committed and highly experienced team with pedagogical leadership at the heart

A supportive and challenging CPD programme

Supervision, mentoring and coaching

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

Opportunities to be a key person, deliver training or family support

Opportunities to be involved in research and develop particular interests and expertise

A leadership team who will invest in and care about your personal and professional development

A vibrant community, from which we draw so much and excellent partnership working

Please contact the setting for further details. Visits are highly recommended.

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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