Early Years Practitioner

Millbrook Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 7LB

6 days remaining to apply

Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 April 2025

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £24,404.00 - £24,790.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary for term time position (Grade 4) based on 30 hrs per week = £16,590 - £16,853.

Early Years Practitioner job summary

Millbrook Primary School is seeking to recruit an Early Years Practitioner

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to join the Early Years team in our Nursery

Are you patient and committed to providing the best for all children?

Are you a team player?

Do you enjoy the outdoors and getting messy?

Do you enjoy working with and caring for young children aged 2-5?

If so this might be the role for you.

At Millbrook, we believe the early years journey is vitally important period of a child’s education and development. If active minds are nurtured in a safe and structured way, through a high-quality early years experience, children will be better prepared for the next stage of their education and ultimately, their later life.

We are seeking a full time (part-time also considered) Early Years Practitioner to work within our Early Years team. Ideally, the successful applicant(s) will have experience of working with, and caring for, young children aged 2-5.

Role: Early Years Childcare Practitioner

You will need a keen interest in how young children learn; demonstrate good communication skills; the ability to work with parents and carers to encourage their involvement, and a flexible and responsive approach to working with families and colleagues.

Start date: Open (we reserve the right to appoint upon finding the right person)

Hours: Our core operating hours are 8:30am – 3:30pm. However, we can offer a degree of flexible working hours between 8.00am & 5.00pm. There is also the opportunity to condense more hours into less days. For example, undertaking 32.5 hrs week over four days as opposed to five (earlier start and later finish). Other combinations and working patterns possible.

Contract type:

Permanent

Although this is a term time all year round working would be considered for the right candidate.

Other benefits

Access to Medigold employee assist programme.

Includes generous LGPS pension package.

Bike purchasing scheme.

Supportive and experienced Early Years team.

Opportunity to liaise and work with other Early Years Practitioners in the Cambrian Learning Trust.

Opportunities as they arise to cover at our Early Years Holiday Club if needed as well as ‘Mini Kids’ our extended day provision for ourEarly Years children.

Further career opportunities.

Reduced rates for Before and After school care.

We are looking for someone with:

Experience working with young children and ideally, a relevant childcare qualification.

The ability to work as part of the early years team, working with other staff to provide safe, high-quality education and care for our youngest children.

Previous experience in an early years setting:

-Who knows how to play, you will be an active role model of great play to ensure the children have the most exciting day possible!

-Who can engage in high quality interactions that move the child’s learning on.

-Who is passionate about the outdoors and getting messy!

-Who is keen to learn and keep developing

- Is creative and loves coming up with new ideas to inspire learning

- Is pro-active; shows initiative and is ‘solution-focused’

- Has a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude

- Has a passion for working within Early Years

Desirable but not essential

- Relevant Level 2 or 3 Qualification in Early Years Education/Childcare or higher

- Has good knowledge/experience of Early Years

- Paediatric First Aid trained.

-Knowledge of working with children with SEND

-Knowledge and understanding of teaching phonics (Read Write Inc)

-Knowledge of using a digital platform to communicate with parents and share learning (Famly).

-Knowledge of using CPOMs to report safeguarding incidents.

Main duties and responsibilities:

To work as a member of the early years team to ensure that all children attending Nursery receive high quality care, are kept safe and are engaged in rich, stimulating play experiences which meet their individual needs, and which support all aspects and components of the EYFS curriculum.

To assist with the planning of the curriculum; to help set up for the daily programme of activities and to help tidy away at the end of the session/day.

Where needed to be a key worker to a small group of children; liaising closely with parents/carers and ensuring each child’s needs are recognised and met; to raise any concerns e.g. about children, parents or the safety of the equipment, preserving confidentiality as necessary and to teach children effectively, through offering an appropriate level of support and stimulation.

To attend in-service training courses and meetings as required.

To ensure complete confidentiality of any information regarding the children, their families or other staff, which is acquired as part of the job.

To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed or required.

How to apply:

Informal visits are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office to book a visit to the see our early years and to meet with our Early Years Lead.

Please complete an on-line application through MyNewTerm

Commitment to safeguarding

SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT

Millbrook Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.

Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.

The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.