Apprentice EYFS Teaching Assistant
Ermine Primary Academy, Lincoln, LN2 2HGThis job expired on 11 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
3 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £7.55 - £12.21 Hourly Apprenticehip National Minimum Wage
Apprentice EYFS Teaching Assistant job summary
Our Vision to empower and inspire children, adults and communities to be ambitious, healthy and kind, dedicated to making our world a better place.
D - Harbour children deserve joyful (delight)schools that ignite creativity and learning through play. We invest in colleagues to ensure success and promote lifelong well-being for everyone.
A - We recruit the best colleagues and nurture talent in safe environments, inspiring our children to strive for excellence (ambition). By learning from the best, we improve and give back to our communities.
N - Harbour schools are rooted in care, valuing respect and empathy (nurture). We create supportive environments where children and colleagues thrive, preparing them for the future.
C - We promote pride, inclusion, and civic responsibility, celebrating diversity and community. Colleagues will experience belonging through collaboration, well-being, and continuous development.
E - Success comes when colleagues are empowered to innovate, take risks, and learn from failure. At Harbour, we encourage creativity and collaboration, helping both children and colleagues achieve their goals.
Our Magnificent Seven Behaviors
We will act with integrity, honesty and transparency in all that we do
We will trust our fellow professionals and value their skills and knowledge
We will work collaboratively and encourage others to do the same
We will work inclusively, building and celebrating inclusive and diverse communities
We will be kind to ourselves and in all our dealings with others, acting with
compassion and empathy
We will communicate regularly and with clarity with our stakeholders and with each
other, welcoming and reflecting on constructive feedback from others
We will be aspirational for all, wanting the best for ourselves and for everyone
We are ambitious, caring, kind, inclusive and excited about our future as part of the Harbour Learning Trust family of Schools.
Job title: Apprentice Teaching Assistant
Location: Ermine Academy, Redbourne Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 2HG
Contract: Fixed Term, 32.5 hours per week (Term Time plus 5 Training Days)
Salary Scale: Apprenticeship National Minimum Wage
Interview date: Wednesday 16th July 2025
Start date: September 2025
Closing Date: Friday 11th July Midday
Harbour Learning Trust is on a rapid journey of improvement. Of the seven Ofsted inspections that have taken place in Harbour schools over the last 18 months, six of those seven schools have improved their Ofsted 'score' by at least one grade. As a values-led organisation, we are proud to have been shortlisted for the TES National Awards 2025 in the category of 'Inclusive Trust of the Year.
What does an Apprentice EYFS Teaching Assistant do?
In a nutshell:
This is a hugely varied role, one minute you will be helping the child in EYFS to whom you give dedicated support assistance to understand their lesson, the next you might be helping them travel between classrooms.
You will spend your day with your appointed EYFS child, get to know them and help and watch them grow and develop. It’s an amazing job and one that’s critical to helping that child. You’ll feedback how the child develops and progresses and work with class teachers on areas of need.
Our children are amazing and we intend to help them to continue to be amazing, regardless of what life throws at them. This is a key role in enabling that to happen.
If you are thinking of applying, we are looking for people who:
- Are committed, adaptable and caring, with a professional manner, who are patient and deeply caring – unflappable!;
- Are able to demonstrate creativity, resilience and interpersonal skills to complement our highly effective team;
- Can be an effective team player and willing to be fully involved in the life of the school;
This post is an excellent opportunity for someone with a passion for nurturing and supporting pupils with SEND to carve out a career with our Trust.
What can we offer you in addition to the salary and holidays above?
- Be part of a dedicated team committed to achieving high standards;
- A supportive, warm and welcoming ethos;
- A vibrant learning environment – for you and our children;
- An experienced and supportive leadership team, who are committed to the well-being of all staff;
As part of Harbour Learning Trust all staff have opportunity to access:
- Employee Benefits Scheme including Local Government Pension Scheme
- Employee Screening and Wellbeing Service
- Cycle to Work Scheme
We always offer the opportunity to discuss our roles and visit our Academy before you apply.
For further information, please contact: recruitment@harbourlearningtrust.com
Harbour Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Trust carries out an online search as part of the due diligence on shortlisted candidates. References taken up upon interview.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
About Ermine Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 390 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ermine Primary Academy website
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