Early Years Nursery Practitioner - Woodlands Nursery

Frimley, England, United Kingdom

5/30/2025

Job Overview

Woodlands Day Nursery, operated by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, provides high-quality childcare for staff working at Frimley Park Hospital. Open from 6:45am to 6:30pm, the nursery offers up to 84 places across five age-appropriate rooms, catering for children aged 3 months to 5 years.

We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic early years professional to join our team. The post holder will be responsible to the Nursery Manager for delivering full day care in accordance with the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 2024. You will also be accountable to the Room Lead for supporting children’s learning and development through practices aligned with the Early Years Outcomes non-statutory guidance (2024).

You will contribute to a strong, collaborative team culture, supporting the key person system and playing an active role in planning, reviewing, and developing children’s individual learning journeys. The role also involves engaging in ongoing professional development and promoting best practices that enhance outcomes for children and families.

In addition, you will take responsibility for monitoring health and safety within the nursery, ensuring compliance with policies and procedures, completing risk assessments, and maintaining accurate records. If you are passionate about early years education and committed to creating a safe, stimulating, and nurturing environment, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Using a sound knowledge of child development theories, progressive learning approaches, and best practices, the post holder will contribute to and deliver high-quality, individualised care and learning experiences for children under five. This will be carried out in line with the statutory requirements and guiding principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 2024.

You will be responsible for a group of key children, completing regular observations, planning developmentally appropriate activities, and maintaining accurate and meaningful records of each child’s learning journey.

The role involves promoting an inclusive, respectful, and welcoming environment that values diversity and supports all children and adults in making a positive contribution to nursery life. You will work closely with parents, carers, and external professionals, following the key person approach to build strong partnerships that support each child’s well-being and future learning.

Where early signs of additional needs are observed, you will liaise with the Lead Practitioner and Inclusion Co-ordinator to ensure appropriate support and early intervention. You will also contribute to ensuring the nursery environment is accessible and responsive to the needs of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), and actively support children and families during transitions within the nursery and to other settings or school.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good knowledge in the area of diversity within a childcare setting
• Knowledge of Early Years policies and procedures
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Gained Early Years Level 3 Ofqual Approved Qualification
• Minimum of GCSE Maths and English at Grade C/4 or Equivalent
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Paediatric First Aid certificate
• Committed to undertake continued professional development (CPD) relevant to personal and professional needs.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage for children from birth to five.
• EYFS Observation, Assessment and Planning.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in an NHS Day Nursery or other full day care setting
• Some experience across full birth to five age range
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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