Early Years Co Worker

Loughborough University Nursery

Position: Part time (27 hours per week between the hours of 7.30am and 6pm)

Hourly rate: £12.11

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays 
  • Discounted nursery fees
  • Paid leave day for your birthday
  • Free access to our on-site gym facilities at Burleigh Springs 
  • Free meal on shift 
  • Free car parking
  • Enrolment into company pension scheme

We have an exciting opportunity for an Early Years Co Worker to join our amazing team at Loughborough University Nursery.

The ideal person must love working with children, be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, trustworthy, and conscientious. Previous experience is not essential as full training will be provided. However, successful candidates will be fun, caring and work well as a part of a team.

Your main responsibilities will be:

  • Providing care for children 0-5 years
  • Supporting a range of activities and experiences for the children
  • Supporting children with self-care
  • Maintaining a clean, tidy and safe environment

Successful appointment is subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check.

About Us

Recently rated outstanding by OFSTED in all aspects, our vision is simple…to build a world class nursery that consistently delivers fabulous learning, play and fun. We bring families and children together – to create a place where children love to be.

Our 100-place nursery is found in the heart of campus providing education and care to the children of university employees, students, and the local community. We are a diverse and vibrant community recognised for our excellence in inclusion, teaching, learning as well as our contribution to Loughborough, Oxford, and Nottingham Trent University academic research projects.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expect our employees to share this commitment.

We are part of the Imago Venues family, and we contribute to making Imago Venues a fabulous place to work. We care about our people and we’re kind to each other. We’re ambitious, ethical, sustainable and, most importantly, we’re accountable.

If you would like to come and meet the team and look around the nursery, please contact us at nursery@lboro.ac.uk

Closing date: 8 April 2025

Loughborough University Nursery is an equal opportunities employer

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