Quint Education has been placing early years staff in London nurseries since 2014. Every practitioner we send is DBS-checked, referenced and interviewed by a consultant who has worked in the sector. Temporary cover, permanent hires, or both.
Most agencies treat a nursery like any other client: a vacancy comes in, CVs go out, someone gets booked. That is how settings end up with a practitioner who has never worked with under-twos, or who arrives not knowing the room routine.
We only recruit for early years. Our consultants know the difference between a baby room and a pre-school room, what a room leader actually does on a bad morning, and why sending the wrong person costs you more than sending nobody. That focus is the whole business, and it is why nurseries keep calling us back.
We work across London, Essex, Surrey and Hertfordshire, supplying day nurseries, nursery schools, children’s centres, primary schools and residential care settings.
Every candidate completes our registration before we put them forward: previous references gathered, DBS obtained or verified on the update service, and a video interview where we assess how they actually talk about children.
We ask about your rooms, your routines and your team before we match. A practitioner who fits your setting comes back, and continuity is worth more to your children than a filled slot.
Use us for a day’s cover, a term of maternity leave, or a permanent room leader. Many of our permanent placements start as temporary bookings, so you see someone work before you commit.
Ratios are not a target, they are a legal requirement, and the manager who cannot meet them is the one who has to ring parents. That is the problem we exist to solve, and it is why we run a 24/7 line rather than an office-hours inbox.
We are rated Excellent on Google across 65 reviews, and we are a Disability Confident Committed employer. Our candidates manage their availability and timesheets through our own app, which means the person booked for your room has confirmed they are coming.
London, Essex, Surrey and Hertfordshire — day nurseries, nursery schools, children’s centres, primary schools and residential care settings.
Yes. Every candidate either obtains a DBS through us or holds an existing DBS registered on the update service, which we verify before they work. We also gather previous employment references and complete a video interview as part of registration.
It depends on the role, the location and the notice. Our emergency line runs 24/7, and urgent cover is what we are set up for — call us and we will tell you honestly what we can do for that day rather than take the booking and hope.
London, Essex, Surrey and Hertfordshire. If you are outside those areas, call and ask — we will say if we can genuinely staff it.
Yes. We place permanent practitioners, room leaders and managers, and we also run temp-to-perm, where you trial someone on agency bookings before offering a contract.
Rates depend on the role, the hours and whether the placement is temporary or permanent. Call us and we will quote for your actual requirement rather than publish a figure that will not apply to you.
Tell us the role, the dates and the setting. We will tell you what we can cover.
