Nursery jobs in Southwark

About nursery education in Southwark

With 48 registered nurseries and early years settings across the city, nursery work in Southwark offers real variety from one week to the next. Demand peaks around term-time transitions and in the run-up to inspection windows, when settings want experienced hands in the room. Together, Southwark's schools and nurseries educate around 42,000 children, and that scale keeps nursery cover requests coming in every week of term.

Days typically involve key-person duties, observations against the EYFS framework, nappy changing and mealtime routines, and close communication with parents at handover. Bookings come from across the city and surrounding areas including Peckham, Camberwell and Dulwich, so you can filter for nurseries and pre-schools within a comfortable commute.

Regular bookings often turn into long-term placements, and several of our practitioners have moved into deputy and room leader posts this way. You choose which Southwark bookings to accept in the Humly app, see the pay rate before you confirm, and speak to the same London consultant each time.

Southwark is a large South London borough with approximately 110 schools and nurseries educating around 42,000 children. The borough runs from the South Bank and Bermondsey through Peckham, Camberwell and Dulwich.

Southwark has invested heavily in its schools, and the borough is home to a wide range of educational settings from inner-city academies to leafy suburban primary schools in Dulwich Village.