It is the diversity of our team that makes us stronger, supports our growth and impacts positively upon the outcomes for our children. Innovation stems from the ability to utilise different perspectives in approaching and finding solutions. By bringing together individuals with diverse skills, different cultural backgrounds, and life experiences, we benefit from fresh perspectives that drive our creativity and we are equipped to offer the best service for our children.

Effective communication, empathy, and peer support all support our staff retention. We invest in building a strong and resilient team who can cope with life, work, and the odd curve ball. We offer ‘psychological safety’ – where staff feel able to express a need, don’t have to cope alone, and, within reason for a safety-critical environment like a nursery, can make mistakes without expecting ridicule or draconian consequences. We want a resilient workforce, an empathetic workforce, and a place where everyone feels supported.

We are an independent nursery, with one site that receives all our love and attention. We offer set regular shift patterns each week, enabling you to fit work around your personal commitments. We have part time and full-time hours, lunchtime cover and early and late shifts. We don’t ask for overtime, but it is available if you want it. We understand that you have a family too, so we close for a week at Christmas, and we are flexible so you can attend hospital appointments or be there for your children when they need you.

We know that in the 21st century people are finding life in general tough, and we support where we can. Mindfulness is woven into the regular support offered to all our team, we have a mental health first aider, produce monthly well-being bulletins and our team have a dedicated equipped gym area on site. We offer wellbeing baskets, have comfortable spaces to take time out with colleagues, or alone, have fresh fruit, and sweet treats available and we even have a massage chair!

Each member of our team brings their own potential, both professionally and personally – and it is our job to unleash that potential. We encourage our educators to be innovative in how they work and provide the support and resources to enable a professional freedom to thrive. Oh, and we don’t have a uniform, we want our team to be comfortable at work.

We go beyond statutory training, supporting personal and professional development with regular coaching, on-the-job mentoring, and skilled supervision. Our nursery closes for 2 professional development days per year for full CPD days led by renowned early years specialists and we fund specialist courses in line with individual career progression.

It is important to us that we achieve a consistency between the expectations of the role, and the standards that we deliver. There is a collaborative input on ideas for how we can deliver our service, to ensure there are adequate resources and to always aim for the highest standards. For everything that we do we remember the why, bringing it back to our values.

We don’t offer a top down management, Instead our leadership is transparent and supportive with layers of management minimised . We encourage joint responsibility where every individual is recognised as competent and capable. We promote a consistent process for reflection on what is going well, and how working conditions can be improved. Everyone has a voice in our nursery, and we always listen.