Early Years Practitioner

Liskeard School and Community College, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 3EA

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  9 October 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £26,016.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary approx. £22,279 per annum

Early Years Practitioner job summary

Liskeard School Nursery are looking to recruit a qualified Early Years Practitioner with an Early Years qualification at Level 3 or above to join our thriving team, ideally paediatric first aid trained.

Opening hours are from 8.00am-5.00pm and working hours will be agreed by mutual consent. You will be working alongside highly qualified members of a dedicated team in a professional and friendly environment.

You will be passionate and provide a safe, nurturing and enabling environment for all of our nursery children. You will be strongly focused on professional development, using your own initiative, and liaise regularly with the SMART Nurseries Manager. You must be a strong communicator to ensure staff, children and parents are effectively supported.

We are unable to accept applications made via CVs or applications from agencies.

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

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks and references, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, the Trust will undertake an online search of all shortlisted candidates.

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 Liskeard School and Community College

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1115 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Liskeard School and Community College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/liskeard-school-and-community-college-liskeard

Liskeard School and Community College is a friendly, caring, supportive school in Cornwall with people and relationships at its heart. It is a unique school of extraordinary staff and students and enjoys exceptional support from parents and the local community. We are proud of our school and we are relentless in our approach to make it even better. We take the education of our students very seriously.

Our school is situated in the historic market town of Liskeard, which is central to Cornwall’s outstanding south eastern countryside and coastline, serving the beautiful rural villages and hamlets and is just a scenic, 30-minute drive from Plymouth.

Assessed by Ofsted in March 2020 as a good school, we are an inclusive secondary community school delivering Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 to 1,100 students aged 11-18 and of mixed ability.

We are an academy school and part of the South East Cornwall Multi Academy Regional Trust (SMART), which provides for outstanding local career opportunities, excellent professional development opportunities and access to expert support, advice, guidance and knowledge pooling from fellow practitioners in our partner schools.

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