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Early Years Educator

Harris Primary Academy Mayflower, Chafford Hundred, Essex, RM16 6SA

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• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  4 October 2022 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 September 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
  • £19,584 actual salary (38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 4 Point 7 (Outer London): £23,400 FTE
• Additional allowances:

  Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Additional Harris Benefits

Early Years Educator job summary

We are looking for an Early Years Educator to work to support the learning of children in the early years classes at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower, including undertaking occasional class cover as directed.

Main Areas of Responsibility

Your responsibilities will include:

• In liaison with EYFS Lead and Teachers, to support children's development in all aspects of the EYFS curriculum in Nursery and Reception as required.
• To develop effective practice and ensure high quality provision for all children by reflecting on skills develop them through observation and support.
• To support practitioners by monitoring and record children's progress and using information as a basis for planning and improving practice and provision.
• To work in partnership with parents and to value and utilise parent's contribution to support children's well-being, learning and development
• Develop and improve the quality and effectiveness of the EYFS by working collaboratively with the EYFS Teachers and Phase Leader.
• Working with all stakeholders to implement the strategic vision for the Federation and promote that vision, values and ethos to Principals, pupils, staff, Governors, parents and the wider community.
• To be responsible for own professional development and be pro-active in attending relevant training opportunities.
• To develop resources in the provision as necessary.
• To be a key person to a group of children and support transitions between Nursery and Reception and other settings.
• To work in accordance with equal opportunities, developing an inclusive provision and practice to meet the need of all children and their families.
• To provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils.
• Where appropriate participate in arrangements for preparing pupils for external testing, assess pupils for the purposes of such tests and record and report such assessments.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience working with or caring for children of relevant age, supporting learning.
• Experience establishing good relationships with parents and families encouraging involvement in education.
• Good numeracy/literacy skills.
• Ability to organise self.
• Ability to work constructively as part of a team, understanding academy roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
• Ability to undertake administration tasks such as registers.
• Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
• Ability to relate well to children and adults including managing difficult or conflicting situations.
• Energy and enthusiasm to improve the learning of all students.

Professional Development & Benefits

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.

Equal Opportunities

The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris Primary Academy Mayflower

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 1028 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Harris Primary Academy Mayflower website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@harrisprimarymayflower.org.uk
• Phone number: 0203 772 4588
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harris-primary-academy-mayflower (opens in new tab)

Harris Primary Academy Mayflower is a successful academy that was judged outstanding in every category in our May 2017 Ofsted inspection.

We are a 5 form entry primary school, opening with a Reception cohort and are growing by a year group at a time with currently 902 pupils on roll from Nursery to Year 6. This will make our academy, which was funded under the free school programme with backing from Thurrock council, the Department for Education and the Harris Federation which sponsors the free school, the biggest primary free school in the country.

We are a sister school to Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred and Harris Academy Chafford Hundred, along with the other Academies in the Harris Federation. We work very closely together and share the very best practice and leadership knowledge and capacity to make the education we offer outstanding. Our shared belief is that children thrive when they feel consistently happy and safe at school and our commitment to excellence is encapsulated in our vision statement: "Excellence, Every child, Every day."

Our Core values of : Manners, Perseverance, Responsibility, Community and Achievement, underpin everything that happens at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower. They are our foundations and we have a clear expectation that all adults as well as children and staff model and respect these values both inside and outside the academy. These foundations have enabled us to build high quality, inspiring education for our children since the academy opened. This is reflected in both the exceptional day to day practice here as well as the outstanding outcomes our children have achieved in each year.

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