Early Years Practitioner

Ebbsfleet Green Primary School, Swanscombe, Kent, DA10 1AL

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st March 2026

• Closing date

  14 February 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  28 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,185.00 - £28,142.00 Annually (FTE) Medway D2 4- 11 (£20,401.56 - £23,204.82 Actual Hours)

Early Years Practitioner job summary

Join Ebbsfleet Green Primary School as a Early Year Practitioner (Level 3 Early Years Qualification)
Inspire a love of learning—right from the very start

Hours: 35 hours per week Mon - Friday 8.00 am - 3.30 pm Contract: Permanent Time Time Only: 39 weeks per year Start Date: 1st March 2026 Interview Date: 23rd February 2026 Actual Salary: Medway D2 4- 11 (£20,401.56 - £23,204.82 Actual Hours)

Are you a passionate and caring Early Years professional ready to inspire and support our youngest learners? Would you love to be part of a school that values inclusion, creativity, and child-centred learning?

Ebbsfleet Green Primary School is looking for a dedicated Early Years Practitioner to join our nursery team, working with two- and three-year-olds as part of our growing provision. You'll play a vital role in delivering high-quality care, learning, and wrap-around support for our youngest children, working closely with colleagues and families to help them thrive.

About the Role:

As part of the Early Years team at Ebbsfleet Green, you will:

• Support the day-to-day care and development of children aged 2-3 in a nurturing, stimulating environment

• Foster a warm, inclusive and emotionally secure setting that encourages children to thrive

• Work collaboratively to deliver engaging, developmentally appropriate learning opportunities

• Support wraparound provision as part of our nursery care offer

• Build strong relationships with families, ensuring effective communication and a shared focus on children’s wellbeing

• Contribute to our positive, child-centred school ethos as part of the wider Ebbsfleet Green team

Who You Are:

You will be someone who:

• Holds a Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education (or a full and relevant equivalent)

• Is passionate about early childhood education and child development

• Has experience working within the EYFS framework

• Demonstrates a nurturing, empathetic, and patient approach

• Has strong organisational skills and the ability to lead by example

• Is a team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Is committed to safeguarding and ongoing professional development

What We Offer

At Ebbsfleet Green Primary School, we’re proud to be a diverse, collaborative and values-led learning community. As part of the Maritime Academy Trust, we are committed to supporting our staff with the tools, training, and time they need to thrive.

Here’s what we offer:

• Term-time only role supporting work-life balance and wellbeing

• A comprehensive, bespoke CPD package to support your professional growth

• Professional Learning Communities that foster collaboration and innovation

• A warm, supportive, and engaged team where staff wellbeing is prioritised

• A diverse and inclusive school community where every child and adult is encouraged to grow

• The opportunity to shape and grow a new nursery provision

• A culture of collaboration, with teamwork and shared planning embedded in practice

• Local Government Pension scheme & National terms & conditions

• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme

Ready to Make a Difference?

We’d love to welcome you for a visit — come and see what makes Ebbsfleet Green Primary School so special. Please contact the school office on to arrange.

Further details about the role, school, and Trust can be found in the Candidate Information Pack. Apply now via My New Term — we may interview and appoint as applications are received, so don’t delay!

Ebbsfleet Green Primary School and the Maritime Academy Trust embrace diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and the successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online safeguarding checks.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Maritime Academy Trust is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Ebbsfleet Green Primary School

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 431 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ebbsfleet Green Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ebbsfleet-green-primary-school

Ebbsfleet Green Primary School is based in Ebbsfleet Garden City, Kent. We are a newly formed school and opened in September 2020. We are now in our third year of opening and have two forms of entry for nursery, reception and year 1 and one form of entry for year 2, year 3 and year 4. We will continue to grow year-by-year, eventually to a two-form entry school, as the Ebbsfleet Green community grows around us. This academic year, our Specialist Resource Provision for children with Autism opened and we have children ranging from reception to year 3 accessing this provision.

We take pride in our creative and entrepreneurial curriculum as it not only engages children, but challenges them to develop the skills - as well as the knowledge - befitting of the twenty-first century. At Ebbsfleet Green, we will give all children an exciting, innovative educational excellence to support them to become the best they can be. We know our children will leave our school ready for the next stage of learning.

We love being part of the Ebbsfleet Garden City community and work in active partnership with residents, parents, carers and local businesses. We believe that by listening and being partners with our community, we will deliver an education to our children that will create respectful, compassionate and inquiring life-long learners.

We are proud to be part of the Maritime Academy Trust.

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