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Nursery Assistant - Unqualified

Job details
Posting date: 07 October 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 06 November 2025
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 1DZ
Company: Family First Nurseries
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: am9iLTIwMTQ6YXBwLTY1

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Summary

Manor Farm Day Nursery- Sandy

Nursery Assistant - 38 hours per week, 4 days Tuesday to Friday

Salary Range £12.21 p/h

Our nursery is a beautiful listed building and has extensive gardens for the children to explore. We are very proud to be rated GOOD by Ofsted and have retained this rating for the last 10 years!

We are Located just off of the A1 with good routes north and south. Sandy has great public transport links via bus and train.

Why Join Us?

At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays
  • Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team member’s
  • Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Transport links: Flitwick train station is only a 5 minute walk away.

As Nursery Assistant, you will:

  • Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times.
  • Understand the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS and staff/child ratios
  • Provide engaging and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development
  • Observe and support children’s development.
  • Provide the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development

As Nursery Assistant, you will need:

  • Fluent in written and spoken English - essential
  • A passion to work and develop a future career in an Early Years setting.
  • Experience within an Early Years setting desirable although not essential

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.

Manor Farm Day Nursery is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.

Vacancy Reference: SG19 1DZ

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