Our Daytime Family

We attract fantastic individuals because we place a high value on inclusivity, invest in our team, and provide a supportive, warm, and rewarding place to work. Our team are our greatest asset, and we are committed to ensuring they feel motivated, engaged, and empowered to bring their best to every child, every day.

It’s thanks to this incredibly talented and dedicated team that we achieve exceptional standards in early years education, enabling our children to become independent, confident, and emotionally intelligent individuals. Together with our wonderful children, they are at the heart of our daytime family.

We understand that children flourish when educators do. Join our team and make a difference every single day.

A different kind of early years role

At KatieB Kids, we are not just a nursery.

We are a daytime family, rooted in relationships, curiosity and care.

Our work is guided by Let’s Nurture Futures™, a relationship-led, research-informed approach that brings together connection, play, wellbeing and learning.

We believe childhood should be joyful, meaningful and protected.

And we are looking for educators who believe that too.

The role

As an educator at KatieB Kids, you will:

• Build strong, meaningful relationships with children and families

• Support children through play, curiosity and exploration

• Observe, listen and respond to children’s ideas and emotions

• Create environments that invite learning and discovery

• Work as part of a reflective, supportive and professional team

This is not a “tick-box” role. You will be trusted to think, reflect and bring your full self to your practice.

What we are looking for

We are looking for someone who:

• Values relationships as the foundation of learning

• Is warm, emotionally available and responsive with children

• Is curious, reflective and open to learning

• Can work collaboratively and contribute to a strong team culture

• Understands (or is willing to learn about) child development and early years practice

• Believes in inclusion, belonging and seeing every child as an individual

Experience and qualifications are important, but who you are matters just as much as what you know.

What makes KatieB Kids different

We have created a nursery where both children and educators thrive. You will be part of a setting that:

• Values connection over control

• Supports professional thinking, not just routines

• Invests in training, reflection and development

• Encourages individuality — no uniforms required

• Creates a culture of psychological safety and support

• Works in true partnership with families

Our commitment to you

We know that to care for children well, we must care for our team. We offer:

• A supportive, welcoming team environment

• Opportunities for professional growth and development

• Wellbeing support, including a mental health first aider

• A strong focus on work-life balance

• Regular reflection and coaching

• A beautiful, inspiring working environment

Who this role is for

This role is for you if you:

• Want to feel proud of the work you do

• Want to be part of something meaningful

• Want to grow, not just “do a job”

• Want to work in a place where your voice is heard

If you feel aligned with our values and would like to be part of our nursery community, we would love to hear from you.

Apply now...

Safeguarding statement

Our nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Full background checks and an enhanced DBS will be required prior to employment.

We will only appoint a person able to meet the criteria set for safer recruitment.

Our team are our greatest asset -

and we do all we can to support them to stay

A high value on inclusivity

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.
A supportive, warm, and rewarding place to work

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.
A positive work-home life balance

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.
Positive emotional and physical wellbeing

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!
Everyone as an individual

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.
Support for professional development

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.
A business driven by its core values

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.
Managers that listen

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.

At KatieB Kids, we believe that valuing our educators means more than offering a payslip—it means offering a pathway. Our business model prioritises reinvestment into the nursery, with generous resources allocated to team development and wellbeing. Decisions about how we grow are made collaboratively—because every voice matters.

We’re proud to offer salaries above industry standards, but even more importantly, we offer real progression. Every team member has the opportunity to grow their career within the setting, supported by a clear pathway for development and senior training. With transparent pay scales and well-defined responsibilities for each role, we empower our educators to take ownership of their journey and increase their earning potential as they grow.

And finally…

Rewarding Growth, Recognising Potential

Our educators ensure that our children are consistently offered a stimulating program of activities reflective of their needs, interests and learning styles. They demonstrate knowledge and implementation of the KatieB Kids Let’s curriculum and the requirements of the EYFS and nursery policies. They establish and maintain a safe environment and are competent in recognising when a child is in danger or at risk of harm, acting to protect them.
Educators at KatieB Kids without senior responsibilities are paid up to £29,806.40 per annum.
Our senior educators consistently ensure a safe and stimulating learning environment, role modelling for others to do the same.
Working in line with our vision and values our seniors employ practices that promote the children’s, colleague’s and one’s own health, safety and physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Senior educators can become senior leaders who we trust to support their colleagues to adapt and respond to changing situations & environments, they keep calm in the face of difficulties, and plan to have alternative options in case things go wrong. They take on new challenges at short notice, are resourceful and have a 'can do’ attitude. They bounce back from setbacks and maintain a positive attitude keeping an open mind and seeing the bigger picture.
Senior educators and senior leaders within our nursery facilitate communication by supporting collaborative and cooperative working. They identify and problem-solve barriers to effective provision or routine within the room, and listen to the voice of their colleagues, empowering others to voice concerns or make suggestions for change. Our seniors will feed back problems with potential solutions to our management in an effective way.
Senior educators at KatieB Kids are paid from £29,036.80 up to £32,073.60 per annum.
Our management act as inspirational, passionate and energetic leaders able to effectively support our early years team to provide the highest standards of care and development opportunities to our children in line with the nurseries values.
Our managers observe rooms, review statistics, hold team meets and support regular audit, supervision, and appraisal for all staff. They support all their team to be competent, professional, to cope with difficult situations, including change and to progress their careers. Through regular formal and informal opportunities they listen to the voice of everyone connected to the setting, they support collaborative and cooperative working, recognise problems, and implement solutions in an effective way.
Finally our managers contribute towards the growth of the company, marketing and promoting the setting, supporting retention and promoting word of mouth recommendation.
Our managers are paid from £34,216.00 up to £48,405.08 per annum.