Join Our Teaching Team

Working with in Early Years with young children who freely give their love and trust, being an integral part of what shapes them, is one of the most rewarding jobs with the capability of positively changing our world.

Montessori Trained / Early Years Practitioner / Seeking to Expand Horizons?

Children's House Montessori preschool is an Outstanding nursery and is the only Montessori nursery in the UK to be awarded Bronze, Silver and Gold United Nations Rights Respecting Schools Awards. Teaching Children their Rights is an integral part of what we deliver.

Holistic education of the children in our care is vital to who we are. As such we follow the child with low number of children to high number of teachers. We provide children with a variety of opportunities to access learning and develop who they are including Forest School, Arts, Science, Yoga, Cooking, French, Bricks for Kidz and many others.

Family wellbeing is also central to who we are as such we have a Centre of Excellence that has inhouse professionals supporting children and family's needs including Play Therapy, Speech Therapists and parenting courses.

Do you want a career in a different kind of education? Do you love working with young children and want to be part of a supporting, ground break team based approach? Come and join our team.

Our team based reflective approach gives you plenty of room to grow and develop in a supportive environment. Each member of the team has their project to lead on and develop so we all grow with our children.

For the Right Applicant There are Promotional Opportunities

Full time and Part time opportunities available. Term time only - 38 weeks a year up to 27 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 0930-1530 and Friday 0930-1230.

Requirements

We are always on the looking for Montessori qualified team members. Equally if you are not Montessori qualified but want to take the opportunity to join the Montessori team then it is a minimum of level 2 childcare qualification. Please note you will be joining a highly qualified team with a number of us QTS and Montessori Primary trained. You will also have the opportunity to undertake a self funded blended learning (online and face to face) Montessori Level 2 training.

Apprenticeships

Do not have any teaching qualifications but love the Montessori approach? Contact us for Apprenticeship opportunities and self-funded Montessori training.

Starting Salary

The starting salary will be competitive and in accordance with qualifications and experience.

Occupational Pension Scheme

We provide the pension scheme to all the team that wish to contribute each month. We also contribute a percentage towards your pension.

Application Process - Safer Recruitment

Children's House Montessori are committed to safeguarding the welfare of the children in our care. All applicants therefore must be willing to undergo effective child protection screening, this will include references from previous employers and an enhanced criminal records check that is part of the update service. We shall also see compliance with section 15-25 of the immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (eligibility to work in the United Kingdom of Great Britain).

Applications

Please email us for an application childrenhosuebirling@gmail.com.

When you work with us you keep the future potential of all the children in our minds. This is a story of our vision, our hope for our young children today as tomorrows adults...

My name is Maria and today I am 18 years old. I have learned that my name is important, it is who I am and I am free and today. I have the right to vote. I am on my way to vote because being part of a democracy is important to me.
As I cross the road on my way to the polling station I decided to take the route through the gardens. I have always had a love of nature. I stop to smell the flowers and leave them growing as we need to look after nature. I observe the people around me looking down at their mobile phones while I gaze up at the wonderous trees and sky.
I cast my mind back to when I started loving nature and recall attending Forest School I my preschool. It was there that I also learned about my Rights. The right of education through education, my right to protection using the Peace table to resolve conflict through language. I learned to use my voice there and how powerful my voice can be. I learned I was born with these rights and no one can take them away from me. We practiced being in a democracy by voting for the things we wanted to do and accepted that in a democracy we have to accept that the biggest number gets it.
I remember at 2 years when I started there a feeling of being safe and loved in a lovingly extraordinarily prepared environment with a low number of children to high number of caring capable teachers who all made an impact on who I am today.
At 3 years I remember an abundant love of learning. I was full of wonder and awe and my teachers inspired me by fuelling the fire of my imagination.
At 5 years I remember I did not want to leave but I knew that my teachers, friends and I are connected with invisible strings made of love and wherever I am I can feel them with me. It was time to move on, but I am ready equipped with the best possible start to life and learning.
At 10 years I was diagnosed with dyslexia which is a different way of learning but that's alright as I have the same rights as everyone else regardless of my "disability". I learned that too at my preschool.
Today I am bubbling away with ideas, I start my University degree soon and am so excited as there is so much I want to do and achieve in life. I ponder my ideas. I know I have the power in me and no one can hold me back. Why do I know that? I remember from an early age, at my preschool my teachers taught me that I can do anything I put my mind to. They taught me independence and we sang the song, the power in me that still plays in my head today.
As I cross the road to the polling station, enter the booth, make my X and cast my vote, it hits me like a flash, something that I have known. Been taught from an early age... what do you do with an idea and the best start in life?... You change the world!