Nursery: The Learning Hive, Audenshaw, Manchester M34 5GB

Hours: Full Time, 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday
Salary: From £14.10-£14.50 per hour (dependent on qualifications and experience) plus £500 Welcome Bonus
Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much much more.

**£500 Welcome Bonus**

Hi, I’m Louise, the Nursery Manager at The Learning Hive.

Every day at The Learning Hive, we inspire our children to be inquisitive, imaginative, and confident learners. Through our carefully designed environments and nurturing approach, our children quickly develop a genuine love of learning and a curious mind.

We’re proud to have been providing high-quality early years education for over 20 years, supporting families from our local community and beyond. Our spacious, converted Victorian home offers a warm and inspiring setting—where every room is filled with rich learning opportunities. Outdoors, our garden spaces are designed for adventure, using natural resources that spark imagination and deepen our children’s connection with the world around them.

Our experienced and passionate team brings a wealth of early years expertise. We know that every child is unique, with their own story to tell, so we tailor our approach to suit each child’s pace, personality, and interests—ensuring they feel supported, seen, and celebrated.

Who & What is Storal?  

It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily a part of here at The Learning Hive. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all.  Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better. Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community. 

About you:

We are looking for a passionate and ambitious Lead Early Years Educator (Third in Charge) who will work in partnership with the educator team to ensure the successful running of the nursery.

About the role:

As an Lead Nursery Practitioner, you will be a key part of keep our children safe, loved and inspired to learn.  Key activities include:

• Encouraging a love of learning through high quality teaching under the EYFS framework
• Ensuring all children are kept safe and have rich stimulating experiences
• Building relationships with the team to create an inspiring working environment
• Leading, motivating and inspiring the educator team
• Being the third in command in the nursery after the Nursery Manager and Deputy Manager
• Identifying areas of change and implementing

Must haves:

• Level 3 or above qualification within early years
• Experience working with all age groups within Early Years 
• Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS

Why work for us: 

£500 Welcome Bonus 

Family Friendly Benefits- enhanced parents leave including maternity, paternity & adoption & Childcare Discount at 50% off all fees

Wellbeing & Refuel Benefits- extra day off per year for your wellbeing and access to modern-day, progressive mental health support & sick pay 

Financial Perks- emergency cash access to your pay before pay date, free financial coaching 

Social Perks – online community for peer-to-peer socializing eg. book club, pets club, pinecones club & continuous professional development accessible to you at anytime 

 Plus, many more.  

We care about our people.  

 Curious to know more?

We’d love to tell you more about what makes The Learning Hive so special.

 Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.