Job Description
Early Years Teacher – Day-to-Day & Long-Term Support
Location: Various settings across Cheshire East
Start Date: September 2025
Hours: 8:30am – 4:00pm (Term Time Only)
Pay: £130 – £170 per day (dependent on level of experience)
About the Role:
New Directions is seeking a passionate and inspiring Early Years Teacher to provide day-to-day and long-term support across our early years settings in Cheshire East. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the learning experiences of our youngest learners using evidence-based approaches, fostering curiosity, confidence, and a love of learning from the very start.
You will deliver high-quality, play-based, and child-centered lessons, underpinned by strong pedagogical knowledge and developmentally appropriate practice. You will help children develop essential skills in communication, literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional learning (SEL), while supporting their holistic growth and readiness for future learning.
What We’re Looking For:
We are looking for an Early Years Teacher who:
1. Has a genuine passion for early years education and inspiring young learners.
2. Can deliver engaging, play-based lessons that promote active learning, inquiry, and exploration.
3. Uses formative assessment and reflective practice to track progress and inform planning.
4. Understands differentiation and inclusion, meeting the needs of all children.
5. Encourages creativity, problem-solving, resilience, and independence.
6. Is adaptable, flexible, and confident working across multiple early years settings.
Key Responsibilities:
7. Plan and deliver high-quality early years lessons that integrate learning through play, exploration, and real-world experiences.
8. Promote children’s development in communication, literacy, numeracy, physical, and social-emotional skills.
9. Use evidence-based strategies to support early learning and positive behaviour management.
10. Create a safe, stimulating, and inclusive learning environment that encourages curiosity and confidence.
11. Observe, assess, and track children’s progress using formative assessment to inform teaching.
12. Collaborate with colleagues to share best practice, engage in reflective practice, and develop innovative learning activities.
13. Foster strong relationships with children, parents, and the wider school community.
Why Join New Directions:
14. Work across a variety of early years settings in Cheshire East, gaining diverse experience.
15. Play a key role in shaping children’s first experiences of school and learning using modern, evidence-based pedagogy.
16. Be part of a supportive, collaborative team that values your expertise and creativity.
17. Enjoy a competitive pay range of £130 – £170 per day for your specialist teaching skills.
Apply or Find Out More:
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.
To apply, click Apply Now and attach your most recent CV highlighting your experience working with early years children and any experience in sports or PE.
Job Specification
An EYFS Teacher works in day nurseries and also nursery or reception classes in infant or primary schools.
The development areas typically covered by EYFS teachers include:
18. Personal, social and emotional development
19. Literacy
20. Communication and language
21. Mathematics
22. Understanding the world
23. Physical development
24. Expressive arts and design.
As an EYFS teacher you’ll be expected to:
25. Hold QTS status
26. Teach all areas of the Early Years Statutory Framework
27. Organise the classroom and learning resources to create a safe and positive teaching environment
28. Plan and prepare activities that cater for the needs of the whole ability range within their class
29. Motivate pupils with enthusiastic, imaginative presentation;
30. Maintain discipline
31. Meet requirements for the assessment and recording of pupils’ development
32. Coordinate activities and resources within a specific area of the curriculum, and supporting colleagues in the delivery of this specialist area
33. Stay up to date with changes and developments in the structure of the curriculum
34. Take part in school events and activities which may take place at weekends or in the evening
35. Liaise with colleagues and working flexibly, particularly in smaller schools and day-nurseries.
What New Directions Education Ltd offers:
36. A dedicated and expert Account Manager
37. Regular and varied supply work
38. Competitive rates of pay
39. Potential long-term teaching roles
40. Full compliance with the Agency Workers Regulation (AWR)
41. A network of branches across the UK
42. Preferred supplier to more than 20 boroughs across the UK
43. Recommend-a-friend scheme
44. Respected reputation across the education and recruitment industry
We are fully committed to the protection of children and vulnerable adults. All applicants must undertake a full enhanced DBS check.
Please select Apply Now to enquire about this job vacancy with New Directions Education Ltd, Wirral branch.
New Directions Education Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.