Our Staff

We are proud of the high ratio of adults to children in our group. This ensures individual attention to the needs and development of each child.

Acorns is a happy place to work, and we have a high staff retention rate for our industry. We have a number of staff who have been working in Early Years for many years – giving continuity to families who have seen several siblings come through Acorns.

Current staff

Abbie Comfort  – Team Leader and DSL

NVQ Level 3 Childcare Education & First Aid

Shantaisia Cooper (on Maternity leave) – Team Deputy & Deputy DSL

NVQ Level 3 Childcare Education & First Aid

SENCO Support

Chloe Connor – Team Practitioner & Support Deputy

NVQ Level 3 Childcare Education & First Aid

SENCO Support

Kayleigh Fillis – Team Practitioner & Support Deputy

NVQ Level 3 Childcare Education & First Aid

SENCO

Jo Nowacki – Team Practitioner & Deputy DSL

NVQ Level 2 Childcare Education (Working towards Level3) & First Aid

Kim – Team Practitioner

Working towards NVQ Level 3 Childcare Education & First Aid

Zoey King – Team Practitioner

Working towards NVQ Level 3 Childcare Education & First Aid

Leanne Donald (on Maternity Leave) – Team Practitioner

Liz Gaida – Team Administrator, Health & Safety Officer, Director & Administrative Safeguarding Support

Business Management in Childcare & First Aid

Bank staff

Karen – Team Practitioner

NVQ Level 4 Childcare Education

As well as gaining qualifications in early years care and education, staff take part in further training helping all staff to keep up to date with best practice within early years care and education.

Staff Recruitment

Acorns is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of child welfare. One of the ways we achieve this is through rigorous adherence to the safer recruitment process.  All staff undertake an enhanced DBS and provide two satisfactory references prior to commencing employment.

We believe for safeguarding and good practice all of our staff and volunteers, including management committee, need to feel valued and encouraged, and are appropriately trained, managed and supported in their work.