Casual Early Years Educator 2026

Remarkable Futures Start Here

Nursery: Children 1st The Marina Nursery School by Storal

Address: Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN1 1RD

Hours: Monday - Friday, casual hours (hours to be discussed in interview)

Salary: £12.71ph - £13.30 per hour, Salary will depend on qualifications and experience

Hi, I'm Samantha, the Nursery Manager at The Marina.

Located on the University of Lincoln campus, our nursery thrives on strong relationships with families, students, and the wider community.

Our beautifully designed spaces-from the magical reading treehouse loft to our bright, open-plan rooms-create a stimulating and engaging environment that supports every child's development.

Set beside the Brayford Pool, our children enjoy daily moments of wonder as they observe ducks, ducklings, and swans, connecting deeply with the natural world right outside our doors.

Storal's Purpose

To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life.

How you'll spend your time here

You'll be helping to provide cover for the children as and when needed. This could be for periods of holiday, sickness, or even vacancy gaps. Sometimes you'll support for a full day, or it may just be a morning or afternoon session.

You'll likely start most of your days with a fully formulated plan That will soon get completely derailed Pivoting when the circumstances call for it is a regular occurrence in child care!

Creativity is key. Teaching young children allows for hands on arts and crafts, storytelling, exercise, and educational games. It's important to keep things fresh and try new activities to keep attention spans engaged. Of course we work within the EYFS standards, but that doesn't stop you from engaging your creative flair and enthusiasm for learning.

We'd love to talk to you if you have the following

Ideally hold a Level 2 or above qualified Early Years Educator / Practitioner / Nursery Nurse or similar and you're looking for an Early Years Educator/Nursery Nurse/Early Years Practitioner role that allows you flexibility of working shifts around your other commitments.

You enjoy supporting and encouraging the natural curiosity and excitement of young children and were born to teach and shape the future of our younger generations.

You have a natural, nurturing, openness, a warm and positive outlook, and you care about learning and education standards in the UK.

(We can sometimes consider unqualified Educators, so if you can demonstrate the necessary values and enthusiasm for working within this environment, submit an application. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.)

What you'll need

• Full and relevant Level 2 or above qualification within early years.
• Experience as an Early Years Educator (Nursery Nurse/Practitioner) or having worked with children under the age of 5 is advantageous.
• Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS is desirable.
• Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together.

Benefits for You

For you - We get the basics right: enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and you can access your pay before payday with Pay Captain.

Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity leave.

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets.

Development - Investing in your future with micro learning, financial stability tools & the Storal Support Fund.

Our community - Growing together Termly inset days, team member app and Storal Awards.

Not everything fits in a job advert.

Click apply today, don't worry if your CV isn't perfect just send us what you have and we'll work out the rest later.

Storal sets the highest of standards when it comes to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that 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 thorough compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.