Early Years Educator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an Early Years Educator at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Ofsted Outstanding rated First Steps NHS Nursery. The nursery provides childcare for children aged 3 months to 5 years, focusing on their wellbeing and development through fun, stimulating, and language-rich activities. The educator will support a team in delivering learning activities, using knowledge of the Foundation Stage curriculum, and encouraging outdoor play. The position involves working 37.5 hours per week, condensed over four days.
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
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- General Requirements
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Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £24,625 – £25,674 — matches the national scale.
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Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Early Years Educator
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
Our nursery provides childcare provision only to colleagues working at the Royal Devon.
Its set on our Wonford site in a purpose built, spacious building and generous outdoorspaces a perfect setting for fun, play, and learning! Which is reflected in our Ofsted Outstanding Provider rating and the happy children who attend from 3 months to 5 years old.
Our mission is to ensure that childrens wellbeing and development is central to all that we do.
We promote learning in a fun, stimulating, language-rich environment, nurtured through play and meaningful interactions; following childrens interests to motivate and inspire them to become active learners.
We recognise the importance of the roles that our parents have in supporting the NHS, so it is important to us that our parents can attend their place of work, knowing that their childs individual needs are met, and that they are being cared and supported to learn and develop to meet their full potential, in a way that is unique to them.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working togeth
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