Overview
Job Title: Early Years Teacher – Maternity cover
Job Reference: REQ250969
Date Posted: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Application Closing Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Location: Loughborough
Package: Negotiable, dependent on experience
Early Years Teacher – Maternity Leave Cover
Loughborough University Nursery
Hours of work: Full time position
Rate of pay: Competitive salary, dependent on experience
This is a fixed term position to cover maternity leave.
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, paid leave day for your birthday, discounted nursery fees, free access to our on-campus gym and pool facilities at Burleigh Springs, free car parking, free meal & enrolment into company pension scheme
Are you a creative early years educator ready to lead with heart, purpose, and innovation? Do you believe in the power of play, the importance of children’s voices, and the transformative potential of outstanding pedagogy?
We have a unique opportunity for an Early Years Teacher to join our team as a Strategic Lead for Curriculum & Pedagogy on a fixed term basis to cover maternity leave. This is more than a job – it’s a chance to shape the future of early years education in a sector-leading setting that celebrates individuality, nurtures talent, and places kindness at the heart of everything we do.
Your Role
As our Early Years Teacher, you will:
- Lead curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation aligned with EYFS and Ofsted frameworks.
- Champion pedagogical excellence and mentor colleagues to deliver outstanding teaching and learning.
- Advocate for children’s rights, ensuring their voices shape our practice.
- Drive continuous improvement through innovation, reflection, and collaboration.
- Lead safeguarding practice and uphold the highest standards of care and compliance.
- Promote rich cultural capital and lead research-informed projects in partnership with families and university networks.
About You
We are looking for a confident and proven leader in early years education, with a strong track record in curriculum development and pedagogical improvement. You must be qualified Early Years Teacher Status or equivalent, with significant experience in early years education and the EYFS, and designated safeguarding lead experience.
Together with your experience in assessment and data analysis, you will have strong communication and decision-making skills and be able to mentor, coach and empower others, leading with emotional intelligence and professionalism.
You will be supported in your role and work alongside a passionate team in a well-resourced nursery that values your expertise and ideas.
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. At Loughborough University Nursery, we bring families and children together – to create a place where children love to be. We deliver an exemplary service that respects and honours the needs of every child, celebrates their contribution, and builds on our key values of care, education, and play.
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, and learning.
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.
We take workplace engagement seriously and are proud to have been awarded the Best Companies accreditation as very good to work for 2025.
If you would like to come and meet the team and look around the nursery, please contact us at nursery@lboro.ac.uk
Come and join our team and be part of an outstanding university nursery with a reputation for excellence and lead meaningful change and contribute to sector leading practice.
To apply for the position please log onto the Imago Venues website.
To find out more about the role click here
Closing date: 4th November 2025
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
