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About the Role

Join a brand new, boutique nursery in Barnes as a Nursery Teacher. Help shape a calm, attachment-informed setting from the start, leading high-quality teaching and learning for children aged nine months to five years. This is a unique opportunity to influence the nursery's culture, curriculum, and community from its inception.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-quality teaching through play and meaningful interactions, planning experiences that reflect each child's interests and developmental needs.
• Act as a key person, building secure, trusting relationships with children and their families, and supporting emotional wellbeing through responsive, relationship-centred practice.
• Help implement and shape the nursery's curriculum with consistency and creativity, carrying out high-quality observations and assessments.
• Build genuine partnerships with parents and carers, sharing children's learning and development through clear, warm communication.

Requirements

• Minimum Level 3 qualification in Early Years.
• Previous experience in a nursery or early years setting is essential.
• Confident to role-model good practice from day one in a new environment.
• Highly fluent English speaker with strong communication skills.
• Solid understanding of safeguarding and the EYFS framework.
• Warm, patient, resilient, and proactive approach.
• Comfortable with the challenges of establishing a new setting.
• Genuinely passionate about early years.

Skills

• Play-based learning
• Child-led environments
• Relationship-centred practice
• Observation and assessment
• Parent and carer communication
• Safeguarding
• EYFS framework

Location

• Barnes, Richmond upon Thames, SW London (SW13)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Monday to Friday
• Shift patterns: 7:30am-4:30pm or 9am-6pm

Experience Level

• Dependent on experience and qualifications

Education Level

• Minimum Level 3 qualified in Early Years

Salary/Compensations

• £35,000-£38,000

Benefits

• Paid training ahead of opening
• Wellbeing support and supervision
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities with a dedicated annual training budget
• 26 days annual leave (including public holidays), rising by one day per year of service up to five years
• Nursery closure between Christmas and New Year

About the Company

• A brand new, boutique nursery opening in Barnes in January 2027.
• Founded by a former nursery teacher turned child therapist with a masters in play therapy.
• Philosophy: Children thrive through strong relationships and thoughtful, child-led environments.
• Setting designed with real thought, filled with natural light.