Job Details:

Salary range: £30,225 - £30,654 pro rata, per annum (actual salary £25,987 - £26,356 per annum). Salary negotiable depending on current salary.
Work location: 215-219 Lisson Grove, London, NW8 8LW
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Fixed Term until 31 July 2027 (Term Time, 38 week per year)
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 6 July 2026
Interview Date: 15 July 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF CAROL’S LIFE-CHANGING JOURNEY

As the educational arm of Westminster City Council, Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) is a world of extraordinary stories. From Childcare & Early Years Education to ESOL, and from Accounting and Digital to the Creative Arts and more, WAES’s courses offer unparalleled opportunities to grow, develop and acquire new skills. People like Carol work to help everyone in our diverse communities to achieve their potential and transform their lives.

Carol left a music industry career back in the 80s, to volunteer in a local nursery. It changed her life.  Now she’s managing a team to help create life-changing opportunities for children and families across Westminster and beyond. She’s never looked back. She loves working in, and for the benefit of, her local community.

From volunteering to getting a job in a nursery, to studying and becoming a Childcare Development lecturer, to joining Westminster City Council back in 1989, Carol has always seized every chance to keep learning and progressing. And now, she encourages her team to do the same. She puts her heart into enabling people’s development. That’s why Carol and Westminster are so well suited. We’re all about nurturing people too.

Carol’s immensely proud of her team, many of whom joined as learners. They have qualified and progressed. And they’ve achieved an Outstanding Ofsted grading together. She’s also proud that WAES can give opportunities to local people with potential.

Just as enthused and ambitious now as she was 35 years ago, there are still goals Carol wants to achieve for her team, for learners, children and families. With Westminster, she’s in exactly the right place to keep doing that.

To find out more about our work visit waes.ac.uk

The Role:

As an Early Years Educator, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Joining our Childcare Team, you’ll provide high quality care and education to children attending nursery — ensuring their emotional, social and academic needs are met. You’ll work alongside a team of experts, benefitting from their wealth of experience, insights and innovative teaching strategies as you grow your skillset.

Maintaining the highest standards of hygiene and health, you’ll ensure the children in your care are safe, supported and encouraged to develop. Taking into consideration children’s individual needs, prior knowledge and family and cultural backgrounds, you’ll promote parents’ involvement in their children’s learning. Everything you do will put children first — giving them the tools, guidance and skills they need to thrive. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

An established professional with a NNEB, CACHE, BTEC Level 3, or BA in Childcare in Early Years, you’ll have at least one year of post qualification experience. Bringing the ability to observe, plan and prepare a curriculum for children, you’ll be comfortable working within the Early Years Foundation Stage framework (2021).

On a personal level, you’ll be a true team player with excellent communication, problem solving and organisational skills. More than anything, you’ll be a person passionate about shaping the future learning and development of children during their most formative years. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a vital role in the growth of the children you teach, and to supercharge your career in the process. 

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working. 

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.    

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.