We employ almost 100 staff at our 4 settings, from Nursery Managers and Senior Nursery Nurses to our Out of School Club Leader. Here is your chance to meet some of the team who are involved in the day-to-day care of your child.
Kate Plews
MD and Owner
Kate is a qualified Registered General Nurse and Health Visitor. She practiced as a health visitor for 7 years which is invaluable experience for running Sunbeams.
She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Health and Social Services Management, a certificate in Health Education and has completed the regional programmefor leadership and Development.
After 16 years in the NHS she left in 2001 to open the first Sunbeams at Austhorpe and has been runnning the company ever since.

Kate – Managing Director

Shelley – Operations Manager

Tracey – Administrator

Becky – EYFS Manager

Alison – Nursery Manager

Louise – Senior Nursery Nurse

Dennise – Senior Nursery Nurse

Maisie – Senior Nursery Nurse

Jade – Assistant Nursery Nurse

Vanusa – Assistant Nursery Nurse

Jordan – Assistant Nursery Nurse

Verity – Nursery Nurse

Sophie – Nursery Nurse

Natasha – Nursery Nurse

Shiela – Assistant Nursery Nurse

Etta – Assistant Nursery Nurse

Lizzie – Nursery Nurse

Leanne – Nursery Manager

Rebecca – Senior Nursery Nurse

Dominic – Senior Nursery Nurse

Kim – Senior Nursery Nurse

Julie – Nursery Nurse

Paula – Nursery Nurse

Paige – Nursery Nurse

Carmela – Nursery Nurse

Sue – Nursery Nurse

Lacey – Nursery Nurse

Georgia – Apprentice

Claire – Senior Nursery Nurse

Shelly Nursery Assistant

Aimee- Senior Nursery Nurse

Vicky – Nursery Nurse

Carmela – Nursery Nurse

Jessica – Nursery Nurse

Fiona – Nursery Nurse

Jessica – Nursery Nurse

Kira – Apprentice

Danielle – Nursery Nurse

Zoe -Chef

Laura – Apprentice

Jenny – Manager

Katy – Senior NN

Amy – Nursery Nurse

Shauna – Nursery Nurse

Sarah – Nursery Nurse

Billie – Nursery Nurse

Sammy – Assistant NN

Kimberley – Nursery Nurse

Kasey – Senior Nursery Nurse

Susan – Nursery Assistant

Sarah – Nursery Nurse

Lisa – Nursery Nurse

Sophia – Assistant Nursery Nurse

Emma – Chef

Shauna – Nursery Nurse

Heidi – Nursery Nurse

Natalie – SeniorNursery Nurse

Jazz – Senior Nursery Nurse

Linda – Nursery Nurse

Jade – Apprentice

Alima – Apprentice

Anna – Nursery Manager

Abigail – Acting Manager

Beth – Nursery Nurse

Charlotte – Senior Nursery Nurse

Chereene – Nursery Nurse

Elizabeth – Nursery Nurse

Rosie – Nursery Nurse

Kelsey – Nursery Nurse

Penny – Nursery Assistant

Nicole – Nursery Nurse

Daniella – Nursery Assistant

Hollie – Nursery Nurse

Molly – Nursery Assistant

Keeley – Nursery Assistant

Jessica – Nursery Assistant

Claire – Chef

Sobia – Nursery Nurse

Rebecca – Apprentice

Abbie – Nursery Assistant

Maddie – Nursery Nurse

Keely – Nursery Assistant

Vicky- Senior Nursery Nurse

Leah – Nursery Assistant

Hannah – Nursery Assistant

Collette – Nursery Nurse
December 2018
We are looking for a Senior Nursery Nurse at both Thorpe Park and Austhorpe to join our award winning team.
These are full time permanent positions offering excellent pay and continued training and development.
It is essential that you have a level 3 or above qualification in childcare.
For further information please email jade.lund@sunbeamsdaynursery.com
September 2018
Childcare Bank Staff – Sunbeams Day Nursery
Are you looking for a flexible, fun, and highly rewarding job role that works around you and your family?
Award winning Sunbeams Day Nursery are currently looking for people to join their team as a Bank Staff Assistant.
Days and hours are offered between 7.30am and 6.00pm Monday to Friday. Tell us what days you are available for work each week and we will inform you of the hours we have available across our 4 sites, this way, you can pick and choose your hours to suit.
The duties of the role will include providing high quality care and learning experiences for children within Sunbeamsand empowering our children to reach their maximum potential. You must be able to communicate well with children and parents and demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team.
The role of a Bank Staff is to help support in busy times which may include holidays, sickness and training. Due to the size of our company there are lots of shifts available for our Bank Staff and can often lead to permanent jobs being offered.
On the job training is provided and opportunities are available to access fully funded NVQ training.
This is a great opportunity if you are looking to work around existing commitments, such as family, work, college or university.
For further information contact Shelley Briggs on shelley.briggs@sunbeamsdaynursery.com
Want to be part of a successful team?
Are you BTEC, NNEB, CACHE Diploma, NVQ3 qualified or have equivalent qualifications?
Sunbeams welcomes your skills to this group of exciting and award winning Day Nurseries.
You’ll work as part of a team in one of our dedicated baby, toddler, or pre-school rooms to enhance the learning and development of our children. Sunbeams is a great place to work. We value and develop our employees’ skills and take pride on growing our talent from within. This means setting stretching goals and objectives and helping you to become the best version of yourself. We will support your career development within Sunbeams and offer individual training programmes to achieve nationally accredited qualifications.
Rewarding our staff
Our staff work hard and to show our appreciation we offer a wide range of benefits;
Reduced rate childcare for all our staff
Investment in individual staff training and development plans offering real career development opportunities
Generous holiday allowances, including Bank Holidays, pro-rata for part time employees
Attractive salaries, pension scheme, sickness bonus and flexi-time arrangements for family commitments
All settings deliver care and education in line with EYFS requirements
Terms and conditions of employment apply
Click here to download our Application Form 2018
Click here to download the Disqualification Declaration form
BOTH forms must be completed and returned to the HR Department: clare.attwood@sunbeamsdaynursery.com If you have any questions, please contact the Human Resources Manager, on the above email address.
In accordance with data protection regulations, your details will not be shared with third parties and will be kept securely on file for 6 months, at which time they will be permanently deleted. Should a suitable vacancy arise within 6 months, we will be in contact.