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ESOL Early Years Practitioner (Level 3)

Employment Opportunity

  • Contract Type:
    Permanent, Term-time only
  • Salary:
    £12.41 per hour + Holiday Pay (£25,812.80 + Holiday Pay)
  • Location:
    Bedford Town Centre, and Shefford
  • Closing Date:
    Friday 12th December 2025 9am
  • Hours:
    Potential session times are as follows: Monday 9:30-14:30 Bedford Tuesday 9:30-15:00 Shefford (+Bedford 14:30-15:00) Wednesday 9:30-15:00 Bedford Thursday 9:30-14:30 Bedford

Our ESOL service was established in 2017 and now runs 5 days per week and offers English lessons for resettled refugees and an English Club with an emphasis on learning skills for integration into UK society. We are a growing team of ESOL tutors and creche teams providing training to help refugees and their families to resettle in Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire.

About the role

The ESOL Early Years Practitioner (Level 3) is a childcare professional involved in the day-to-day running of the Crèche for English Learners. You perform an important role caring or children, maintaining a high quality, stimulating learning environment.

We are seeking someone who is creative, reflective and able to implement new ideas to continually improve practice and support the management team.

This role will deputise for creche session leaders in cases of staff sickness or training and will therefore be required to work on either site at short notice in such instances. Candidates must be able to be in either Shefford or Bedford from 9:30-14:30 with notice being given by 8:30am in case of cover need. Access to own vehicle or ability to use public transport/private hire vehicles is therefore essential for this role.

This role is split between our sites in Shefford and Bedford. subject to service need with usual locations of work (when not deputising for a creche session leader) being as follows:
Monday – Bedford – 9:30-14:30
Tuesday – Shefford – 9:30-15:00 (14:30-15:00 in Shefford with 30mins given for travel between locations)
Wednesday – Bedford – 9:30-15:00
Thursday – Bedford – 9:30-14:30

You can download a full job description below.

Next Step

If this sounds like you, please see Role Description and complete our application form and Equal Opportunities form.