Kids Planet Nurseries job reviews

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• Best thing

  The children and activities

  Worst thing

  Rude staff, stress no free tine

  3.0

  Apprenticeship at Kids Planet Nurseries, March 2025

• Best thing

  Working with Children.

  Worst thing

  Management. No Sick Pay. Working Christmas. Too Little Holidays.

  1.9

  Nursery practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, January 2025

• Best thing

  working with the children

  Worst thing

  staff

  2.6

  Nursery practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, January 2025

• Best thing

  The families you meet
  SOME of the people you work with
  The children

  Worst thing

  Overworked and underpaid
  Stressful
  Long hours
  Understaffed
  No appreciation
  No sick pay
  Favouritism with staff/friendship groups
  Unprofessional workers and management
  Money focused company
  Lack of understanding of what really goes on
  “Mental health” is made out to be important but in reality, they do not care at all!
  No help or support given when needed
  Unrealistic expectations
  Too much paperwork
  No funding
  SEN support is non existent
  Bitchy staff
  Staff constantly moved from your setting to another to help out, leaving yours understaffed and stressed
  Management are lazy
  Breaks are not long enough
  Toxic work environment
  Everything is for show and social media!!
  Head office/owners wouldn’t have a clue who you were if you were stood right in front of them. They have absolutely no input into your setting, unless sending out emails and memo’s to change policies or get you to fill out servey forms, expecting good results.

  The worst place to work if you struggle mentally. No support given at all, just hidden away in a file.
  Oh and don’t even think about asking for help if you or staff are struggling. You’ll get told to deal with it and instead be watched on CCTV and disciplined when you finally break down.

  Would NOT recommend.

  1.9

  Room leader at Kids Planet Nurseries, October 2024

• Best thing

  The staff

  Worst thing

  Not getting proper breaks

  5.0

  Chef at Kids Planet Nurseries, October 2024

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• Best thing

  It's the most rewarding

  Worst thing

  The workload

  7.6

  Deputy manager at Kids Planet Nurseries, September 2024

• Best thing

  Seeing children grow

  Worst thing

  Amount of unqualified and young people
  Lack of work ethic

  5.5

  Room leader at Kids Planet Nurseries, May 2024

• Best thing

  Seeing the children grow

  Worst thing

  Understaff

  3.2

  Nursery practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, November 2023

• Best thing

  Working with the kids and some of the staff are nice.

  Worst thing

  Almost everything else. You get told not to do something and then the next day you're in trouble because the thing they told you not to do hasn't been done. HR don't respond to you at all, my job description changes all the time to suit what the manager wants yet they won't give me an official written job description so I have to go off what the manager says. I ask for support and I get nothing, I'm given less than a days notice about uniform being incorrect and told that despite them saying they would supply uniform for me, I have to I pay out of pocket. I plan and organise a lot of things for them but don't get any recognition but other people do. Im not allowed to take time off sick because it "burdens the company" yet I have on going health issues that they make hard to get sorted by purposefully making me late for appointments/ not letting me go to appointments easily. Everytime I have booked/ tried to book a holiday they have messed it up in some way by either not paying me for it despite me having enough days. Confirming it with me and then not putting it on the system and being annoyed that I've taken the time off we agreed upon or rejecting holidays without reason that were already approved.

  They make a song and dance on social media about mental health and well-being but that's all it is. A dance for Facebook. They don't actually care, they will reduce you to tears and send you back into the rooms sobbing.

  1.2

  Chef at Kids Planet Nurseries, October 2023

• Best thing

  Working with children seeing then grow and delelop

  Worst thing

  Annual leave

  3.7

  Nursery practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, October 2023

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• Best thing

  they’re all respectful and happy

  5.0

  Apprentice at Kids Planet Nurseries, January 2023

• Best thing

  Most of the staff are easy to get on with

  Worst thing

  Company is too big, they’re all about the money and don’t care about the staff or families using the nursery service.

  Barely any resources for the children within the nursery rooms.

  Unfair. One rule for one, one rule for another.

  Not paid enough

  Too much unnecessary paperwork and policies

  Too many children for the nursery. Some rooms don’t even have enough tables and chairs for the amount of children in the room at one time.

  Staff aren’t allowed to sit on chairs, have to sit on the floor (all day long) to be at “child’s level”.

  Head office etc don’t even know who the staff are, what goes on day to day.

  Outside areas and areas within the nursery are an extreme hazard. When kids planet first took over our nursery the first thing they said was they were going to replace the outside area due to the hazard and doesn’t look appealing… 4 years later nothing has been done, it’s got worse.

  Kids planet just care about being a money making scheme.

  2.4

  Employee at Kids Planet Nurseries, January 2023

• Best thing

  Getting to know more people with in different settings

  Worst thing

  Being sent every where not being in my own numbers

  6.1

  Nursery practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, November 2022

• Best thing

  Woking with kids

  Worst thing

  Been always picked on me all times

  1.4

  Employee at Kids Planet Nurseries, October 2022

• Best thing

  Helping to develop children in there first couple of years learning and giving them their knowledge for the future

  Worst thing

  It’s stressful as it is always understaffed but we can’t get more staff as we are technically in ratio however due to having so many staff with a rule of holidays only allowing one person off a day it often leaves us short staffed as people may end up ringing in sick or sent to another nursery if they’re short

  5.0

  Early years practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, September 2022

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• Best thing

  Working with children and seeing them grow

  Worst thing

  Dealing with immature staff

  7.5

  Childcare practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, August 2022

• Best thing

  Short hours

  Worst thing

  Not allowed to park in staff car park adding 30 minutes walking to get to work

  4.8

  Kitchen assistant at Kids Planet Nurseries, April 2022

• Best thing

  The kids

  Worst thing

  Stress, responsibility, understaffed, lack of consideration from managers/head office

  2.4

  Nursery practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, February 2022

• Best thing

  The kids

  Worst thing

  Assessments, to much competing against nurseries

  4.9

  Nursery practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, February 2021

• Best thing

  Children very awarding.

  Worst thing

  Ratio stress levels

  4.2

  Nursery practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, November 2020

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• Best thing

  Working with children and watching them progress

  Worst thing

  Short staffed

  3.0

  Early years practitioner at Kids Planet Nurseries, November 2020

• Best thing

  Working with my own children and friends

  Worst thing

  The company

  4.1

  Deputy room leader at Kids Planet Nurseries, August 2020