Ensuring employees feel heard and valued is a priority for Nurtured Childcare, which believes a fantastic company culture is what keeps people in the job.
To demonstrate it really cares about its staff, the nursery group of seven settings across the Midlands and Yorkshire offers all of its 150 employees paid breaks during the working day. It believes it is the only early years provider to offer this benefit.
‘We offer paid breaks because we understand that day-to-day, people are conscientious about their role and they want to get stuff done, so they don’t always want to leave with things incomplete. Sometimes that might mean they do a few minutes’ extra work. We feel that if we pay for their breaks, it shows as a company we really care about them and care that they have a rest’, explains operations director Rebecca Casserly.
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