Pedagogical Lead for Birth to Threes

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

26 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  29 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £47,181.00 - £50,269.00 Annually (FTE)

Pedagogical Lead for Birth to Threes job summary

Due to the retirement of our exceptional Birth to 3s Educator, St Paul’s is looking to recruit a pedagogical lead and champion for our youngest learners.

St Paul’s has a long standing legacy for expertise in working with babies and 2s, having been a Centre of Excellence, and now the lead setting for the SW Regional EYs Stronger Practice Hub with birth to 3s specialism, we pride ourselves on our continued researchful and outstanding practice.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and ambitious leader who will:

⁃ Join our leadership team, contributing to vision, strategy, quality assurance and quality improvement

⁃ Lead on birth to 3 pedagogy and practice

⁃ Work with our exceptional staff teams to inspire, motivate and innovate

⁃ Build capacity and leadership across the teams

⁃ Lead on research and wider partnerships, to include strengthening of integrated and area based working

⁃ Host study days and networking events, documenting and showcasing our developing practice

⁃ Promote and market our birth to 3s provision across Bristol and beyond

We are looking for a unique leader, who:

⁃ has extensive knowledge and expertise of working with children from birth to 3, but particularly babies

⁃ has experience of leading and inspiring large complex teams, within diverse communities

⁃ is keen to connect with wider systems leadership opportunities

⁃ is warm, loving, open and models empowering relational leadership

⁃ Is an exceptional communicator

⁃ Is a lifelong learner

We welcome visits. Please remember to respond to the job description and spec in your application.

Good luck with your application.

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 schools, Does not apply, 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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