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Jobs in early years education in the UK
Empower your early years teaching job search with our expansive school and nursery network and expertise in early education.
Our recruitment experience in early education jobs
The first five years of a child’s life are crucial to their long-term development. As an early years teacher, you play a pivotal role in ensuring that young children are given the foundations they need to succeed in the future.
Our team of expert education consultants work with a diversity of schools and nurseries across the UK to find you the most suitable early years vacancies. You’ll find schools and nurseries that provide the best continued professional development and the most competitive salary packages. And whether you’re seeking daily supply, long term or permanent positions, we can match your specific career needs. No matter your commitments and ambitions, we’ll offer school roles tailored around you.
As specialists in education, we speak the language of teachers, understanding both the challenges and opportunities they face. Being an early years practitioner can be a demanding vocation, but we’re here to provide ongoing careers support and wellbeing services based around your individual needs.
We offer a free suite of online CPD training courses to support your career in education – all accessible from the seamless Hays app. The courses cover a multitude of relevant topics – from de-escalation techniques to SEND training – helping you keep up to date with education legislation and compliance, whilst also advancing your skills and knowledge.
We’re here as your lifelong partner in a rewarding early years career.
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Our close partnerships with local authorities, nurseries and respected schools across the UK enable us to offer a wide range of early years positions. And with our extensive network of MATs, we offer job opportunities where you can gain valuable experience across multiple early years education environments.
You’ll find early years teaching jobs available across the country, including locations like London, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The institutions we work with are equally diverse, looking to hire across all education disciplines and seniority levels.
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Our recruitment process
Your application goes directly to your very own dedicated, expert consultant.
A consultant will reach out and discuss your application, career history and future ambitions.
Your dedicated consultant will meet you virtually or in one of our many offices near you.
We listen, provide impartial career advice to place you in the right job, with the right organisation.
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EARLY YEARS TEACHING JOBS FAQs
There are plenty of early years teaching roles you could find. Employers currently looking for early years professionals include nurseries and pre-schools, independent schools with reception classes, along with children’s centre and day-care establishments.
Whether you’re seeking daily supply, long term or permanent positions, we can match your specific career needs.
You can see the latest early years jobs we are offering on our live network.
There is a clear demand for soft skills in school teaching, and this is certainly no exception for early years.
Our Education Salary and Recruiting Trends Guide 2022 identified the following as being most desired by employers:
