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Job Responsibilities

We are looking for full-time Early Years Educators / Nursery Practitioners to join our friendly, enthusiastic and hard-working family at the Landbeach Nursery, just outside Cambridge.

What you’ll do:

• Greet children each day with a warm, kind smile that makes them feel loved and welcomed.
• Be always ready to build a fully functional space rocket from a kitchen roll tube, 2 elastic bands, and a handful of pipe cleaners.
• Share songs, stories, and creative activities that everyone will enjoy (being in tune is optional, but knowing Frozen lyrics is a plus!).
• Navigate a classroom that sometimes looks like a hurricane just hit—and do it with calm and grace.
• Multitask like a pro, reading stories, answering questions, and explaining how the world works (sometimes all at once).
• Encourage independence, even if it means waiting patiently while a child learns to zip up their jacket.
• Gently mediate the children’s disagreements over who has more pesto pasta and celebrate milestones, big or small—from mastering the alphabet to learning to share.
• Ideally be able to correctly and immediately name and draw all species of dinosaur from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops.
• Flex those leg muscles—getting up and down from tiny chairs while keeping our space safe and engaging.

What we’re looking for:

• Ideally a Level 3 Childcare qualification (or equivalent). But your passion is more important to us.
• Enthusiasm for working with young children and creating a nurturing, supportive environment.
• Excellent communication skills to engage with children, parents, and colleagues.
• Patience, creativity, and a good sense of humour (you’ll need it for all those “why” questions!).

In return, we’ll offer:

• A fun, exciting, and dynamic environment—no two days are the same!
• A supportive, collaborative team that feels like family.
• The chance to build close, long-lasting relationships with the children and their families.
• Appreciation just for being you.
• Signing on bonus!
• 40-hour working week (working over 4 or 5 days)
• Competitive salary, paying the REAL LIVING WAGE.
• Starting with the equivalent of 4 weeks paid holidays, rising to 5 weeks over 2 years. Plus the week between Christmas and New Year, Christmas Eve if it is a working week, bank holidays and a half day holiday on your birthday (or closest working day to it).
• Discounted childcare, currently at £51 per day. We also take the new nursery funding.
• Half-day holiday on your birthday!

If you’re up for becoming a much loved special person who the children and their families will remember for decades to come – please get in touch.

To apply please submit your application to ali@beachbabies.co.uk