Hermitage Nursery Practitioner

**Nursery: Hermitage Nursery School, Whitwick, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE67 5EL**

**Hours: Full Time, part time, Lunch Cover and flexible hours available, Monday to Friday**
**Salary: Up to**£13.05 an hour (dependent on experience and qualifications) plus £500 Welcome Bonus**
**Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much much more.**

**£500 WELCOME BONUS**

**About our nursery**

Every day at Hermitage, we inspire our children to be curious, imaginative, and confident in our nurturing and engaging learning environment. Through play, exploration, and creativity, our children quickly develop a genuine love of learning and a curious mind. Our cosy, home-from-home environment provides a safe and secure space where our children feel valued and at ease. Backed by a team rich in early years experience, we tailor every learning experience to suit each child’s individual journey—supporting their development every step of the way.

We are passionate about outdoor learning, and our dedicated Forest School sessions are a highlight—led by our experienced Forest School teacher, these experiences help children connect with nature, build confidence, and develop key life skills.

We take great pride in our close collaboration with families and professionals, including health visitors, area SENCos, and speech and language therapists. This partnership approach ensures each of our child’s unique needs are met and that their transition to school is smooth, supported, and joyful.

**Who & What is**Storal?**

It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily a part of here at Hermitage. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all. Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better. Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community.

**About the role**:
As a Nursery Practitioner, you will be a key part of keep our children safe, loved and inspired to learn. Key activities include:

- Seeking out learning opportunities in everyday routines such as mealtimes & transitions
- Bonding with your children and their families by engaging in meaningful moments

**About you**:

- A true love for child development and care
- Able and willing to work in a team
- Ability to communicate effectively with management, your peers and parents
- High levels of care and empathy that every opportunity can be a learning opportunity
- Knowledge of the EYFS framework

**Must haves**:

- Early Years qualification at Level 3
- Experience working with all age groups within Early Years

**Benefits at a glance**

**For you -We get the basics right** enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain

**Family matters -** **Balance starts at home** Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

**Health & wellness -** **Nourishing body & mind** Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more

**Development -** **Investing in your future** Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

**Our community -**Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge

We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much much more

We care about our people.

**Curious to know more?**

We’d love to tell you more about what makes Hermitage so special.
- Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our _families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.

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