Early Years Foundation Stage Lead: Sponsorship Available

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Job Title: Early Years Foundation Stage Lead
Agency: Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Gillingham, Kent, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 28,392 – 31,157 £ / Year

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Job Summary

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We are looking for a qualified, experienced, and dedicated Early Years Foundation Stage Lead to join our friendly yet professional team. If you are passionate about providing exceptional care to children and motivated to lead and deliver an ambitious curriculum of learning, then we would love to hear from you.

Tiny Tugs Medway NHS Foundation Trust Day Nursery cares for children aged 6 months to 5 years in a purpose-built day nursery setting located conveniently on the hospital site for Trust employees. An exciting opportunity to offer a highly motivated individual with previous experience at a senior nursery practitioner level who is looking to further their leadership skills and knowledge, and join our well-established team of dedicated early years professionals, who take a holistic approach to learning and place every child at the centre of what they do to achieve the best outcomes.

Main duties of the job

  • To deputise the nursery in the absence of the nursery manager and or deputy, ensuring that adult to child ratios are maintained at or above Ofsted guidelines and that there are sufficient qualified staff on duty at all times to provide care for children in the day nursery.
  • The post holder will participate in effective day-to-day service delivery, which includes staffing rotation, planning staff breaks, and ensuring adequate resources such as laundry, milk, and catering supplies.
  • To keep up to date with current developments, initiatives, and practices in teaching and learning for children in the early years.
  • To work alongside the manager and deputy in implementing policies and procedures and the standards that schools and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development, and care of children from birth to 5 years, as set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing, Open, and Together. You must understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies/procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Minimum NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Early Years
  • Grade C or above in English and Maths

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in an early years setting working with children aged six months to five years old
  • Experience of working at a room leader/senior nursery practitioner level

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills with parents, staff, children, outside agencies, and all stakeholders
  • Leadership skills
  • Initiative, working, and teamwork
  • Problem solving
  • Highly motivated

Knowledge

Essential

  • An excellent working knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework – September 2023 and Ofsted Inspection Framework 2023.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 02 July 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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