Early Year Practitioner
Scientia Academy, Burton-upon-Trent, DE13 0UFThis job expired on 5 January 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January 2024
Closing date
5 January 2024 at 9am
Date listed
5 December 2023
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 hours per week, term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC Salary point 15: £27,803
What skills and experience we're looking for
Scientia Academy is currently recruiting to the role of EYFS Practitioner on a permanent full-time term time only contract starting in January 2024. Duties include:
- To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting.
- To give support to their staff within the setting.
- To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.
- To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met.
Our aim is to ensure that every member of the school community feels included, valued and respected, and that each person is treated fairly and well. We are a caring community school, whose values are built on mutual trust and respect for all. We have high expectations of all our pupils and support each child to realise their full potential and be the best they can be.
We need:
An Early Years Practitioner to work with colleagues in the Nursery/Reception classes and create a stimulating, safe and caring teaching and learning environment. We are looking for an individual who is able promote the physical, emotional, intellectual and social development of every child within the Foundation Stage.
So, if you are:
- an excellent practitioner, keen to work in a supportive and principle-based school.
- driven by a strong moral purpose to enable all children to achieve and have integrity.
- passionate about creativity and have an excellent sense of humour.
- warm in character, easy to work with and committed to teamwork, recognising that more can be achieved together than is possible as individuals.
- a professional who values wellbeing but unafraid of hard work.
- calm and able to handle pressure and setbacks with a smile.
- keen to be challenged to become the best you can be.
- able to be pushed at an accelerated rate of development, and reflective and proactive enough to make it happen.
- determined to succeed with a ‘find a way or make one!’ attitude.
- committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment.
Then you’d love to work at Scientia Academy and for REAch2. This is not just another job. This is a chance to be part of something exciting and very worthwhile. This opportunity will open doors both professionally and personally to anyone who joins our quest.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A Leadership Team dedicated to helping you develop an outstanding career and balanced life.
- A supportive school that will provide you with the tools that you need to succeed.
- Exciting, leadership development and early promotion opportunities for the right candidates across the Trust.
- The chance to work with a fantastic team, with the best possible opportunities to share ideas, planning, assessment etc.
- Opportunity to work alongside outstanding teachers, to observe and share practice on a regular basis, developing pedagogy through reflectivity.
- The chance to use / develop personal curriculum strength
- An excellent CPD training programme.
- A dynamic, creative staff, dedicated to achieving whole-school improvement and building lifelong friendships
- The chance to make a real difference.
Further details about the role
Commitment to safeguarding
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Scientia Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 461 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Scientia Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@scientia-academy.org.uk
Scientia Academy is a purpose built primary school for children aged 3 to 11 years old. The school opened in 2013 and has continued to grow year on year.
We are now a popular, over-subscribed school, with a thriving nursery which offers 30 hour provision for working parents. We offer Wrap Around Care with a busy Breakfast and Afterschool Club.
The aim of Scientia Academy is to raise standards of achievement by providing a secure, caring and stimulating environment in which children are enabled to become independent, responsible and enthusiastic learners.
The provision of equal opportunities, effective planning, teaching and assessment is intended to encourage all individuals to have high expectations and to recognise their own successes and improvements.
We are very proud of the social and cultural diversity of our school. The children and staff come from a variety of different countries and we aim to celebrate the richness that this brings to the school. This diversity is reflected in our curriculum, our policies and procedures and our school environment.
Arranging a visit to Scientia Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@scientia-academy.org.uk.
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