Early Years Officer for Specialist Provision Unit (Term-Time Only)

Highfield Nursery School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 4AB

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  October

• Closing date

  19 July 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  2 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,247.00 - £22,725.00 Annually (Actual) 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term-time only. Flexible working/job sharing would be considered

Early Years Officer for Specialist Provision Unit (Term-Time Only) job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Early YearsOfficer to join the Specialist Provision Unit at our nursery school, working 37 hours perweek, Monday to Friday, term-time only. Flexible working/job sharing would be considered.

Weare a maintained nursery school and form part of a federation of fourlocal authority maintained nursery schools across Northamptonshire, with a supportive and proactive governing body. Our mission is to provide the highest quality of Early Education and care for all our children, in whom we foster a love of learning to help each child become the best they can be.

Main duties

• To ensure the standards of teaching and learning in the school are of the highest possible quality
• To be responsible for a large group of children, including planning the learning, resourcing the environment, evaluating learning, and record keeping
  
• Towork alongside Early Years Assistants (EYAs) who will support you inthe planning, preparation, and delivery of learning and development
• To lead on planning and provisions of the children, with a group of EYAs and/or leaders
  
• Overseeingand providing the planning and delivery of group times and scheduledwork time, to ensure they meet the specific needs of your group ofchildren
• To support the leader with the running of sessions, ensuring routines are followed and managing the team if the leader is called away
  
• Toanalyse children's progress and attainment - identifying trends andareas of strength, as well as next steps which are then to beimplemented into provision
• To be aware of stages of development, so as to be able to make judgements about children's development
  
• Undertaking home visits to gather information about new starters
• Completing termly assessments on children's development, including narrative reports for parents/carers
• Organising and co-ordinating parent/carer consultation meetings to share progress and attainment
• Organising, co-ordinating, and monitoring record keeping, floor books, and displays that inform families of children's learning
• Organising and planning staff deployment of provisions and interventions
• Organising and planning support for any EYPP children in your group
  
• Review and consistent implementation of key routines
• Review and maintenance of physical environments, including continuous provision and enhancement
• Dailycommunication with parents. If working a late shift, to informcolleagues of anything which may need to be fed back toparents/carers the following morning
• Nurturingeffective and positive relationships with both the children under yourcare and across the provision and their parents/carers
  
• Toread the staff communication and deployment board prior to work, and be ready at your work station at the designated start time
• To communicate with your team about necessary plans for provisions, changes to routines, and/or messages from parents/carers
• Working together to form a consistent approach to behaviour management
• Effectively planning and delivering parent/carer events
• Providinginformation and guidance to EYAs on children's developmental needs, and to support them with any parent/carer events, i.e. parents evenings and home learning plans
• Reportingany safeguarding concerns or accidents at home and/or nursery, andbeing prepared to have conversations with parents/carers and/or professionals
• To be fully aware of vulnerable children within the group, and communicate with teams of EYAs on support
• To provide information and guidance to EYAs on children's developmental needs
• To support and guide EYAs with regards to parent/carers events and home learning plans
• To follow all school policies
  
• Keepingup to date with any changes to statutory or non-statutory guidance andprocedures for the Early Years sector, including Keeping Children Safein Education (KCSIE), GDPR, EYFS Statutory Framework, DevelopmentMatters, and Birth to 5
• To work together to form a consistent approach to behaviour management
  

Benefits

• A friendly, collaborative community of children and their families, staff, and governors
• A caring and supportive working environment that prioritises wellbeing
• Opportunity for progression and CPD within the Federation and the wider maintained nursery school network
  
• Competitive salary and generous annual leave entitlement
• A generous Local Government pension scheme
• Discounted nursery sessions for your children
• Free onsite parking

"Leaders have cultivated an effective staff team. Leaders and staff meet regularly to discuss development needs and to ensure that staff receive sufficient support to fulfil their roles. Staff say they feel well supported by leaders and that morale is high." - Ofsted (2019)

Toapply for this vacancy, please complete the application form, including a personal statement describing how your experience, skills, and knowledge meet the criteria for this post as laid out in the jobdescription/person specification. You will also be required to completeand return a self-disclosure declaration with your application. Submitboth through MyNewTerm.

Toarrange a visit and/or learn more about working at Highfield Nursery School, please email Lindsey Gwynne at LGwynne@ffcnschools.com or phone 01933 225039 between 08:00-16:00 on weekdays.

Foundations forChildren Nursery Schools Federation is strongly committed tosafeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.References will be sought for all short-listed candidates and asuccessful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced DBScheck.

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.

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About Highfield Nursery School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 5
• Education phase: Nursery
• School size: 86 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 5
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Highfield Nursery School website (opens in new tab)
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