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Nursery Education Teaching Professionals

Nursery education teaching professionals care for and teach children up to the age of entry into primary school.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£12,726
£29,907
£44,427

New workers start around £12,726. Normal pay is £29,907 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £44,427.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 21,793 vacancies for this type of job

1.38%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties.

  • Observes and assesses students and discusses their progress with parents and/or other education professionals.

  • Supervises teaching assistants and trainees.

  • Undertakes pastoral duties.

  • Supervises and cares for children, provides a secure learning environment and ensures their health and safety is maintained during all activities.

  • Teaches simple songs and rhymes, reads stories and organises various activities to promote language, social and physical development.

  • Prepares and delivers lessons in accordance with early years foundation stages curriculum and encourages and stimulates children's learning.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Classroom Management

  • Child Protection

  • National Curriculum

  • Due Diligence

  • Pedagogy

  • Application Notes

  • Child Development

  • Student Engagement

  • External Auditing

  • Information Privacy

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Teaching

  • Communication

  • Leadership

  • Enthusiasm

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • Planning

  • English Language

  • Management

  • Self-Motivation

  • Empathy

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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