Early Years Practitioner

Kents Hill School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK7 6HD

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  4 August 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  21 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,421.00 - £29,770.00 Annually (Actual) Salary Grade E1-E4 dependent on experience - NJC Scale

Early Years Practitioner job summary

Nursery Nurse (NVQ Level 3)

Start date - 01/09/2025

Permanent Role

33.75 hours per week (8.15am - 3.30pm)

39 weeks per year (including INSET days)

Salary Grade NJC Scale - E1-E4 (dependent on experience)

We are looking for a Nursery Nurse to join our wonderful Nursery Team. At Kents Hill we truly value the Early Years and the integral part they play in starting a child's educational journey. We are looking for someone that shares this ethos and has a genuine passion for Early Years education. The role will include:

- Providing a welcoming and stimulating learning environment to enable children to learn through play and grow in confidence

- Taking up the role of a 'key person'. This will include observing, monitoring and evaluating all aspects of the children’s development in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum in order that every child will fulfil their potential

- Ensuring that appropriate standards of safety and security are maintained at all times to safeguard the welfare of our children.

- Collaboration with parents to be partners in their child’s development by working together and having a positive impact on the children’s learning

The successful candidate must hold an NVQ level 3 qualification (or equivalent).

Kents Hill School & Nursery may be a small school, but it has a big personality and our wonderful staff know our children extremely well. We are a warm and caring community, where children feel comfortable and confident to be challenged in order to achieve endless possibilities. Together we aim to grow our little people into independent, confident, and successful little learners.

Kents Hill School & Nursery is proud to be part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning family of schools that inspire all our futures through learning together. At Inspiring Futures, we are never alone. We know we are stronger together – one united family striving for excellence for all, in everything we do.

Our children and young people come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our colleagues. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our vision of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.

As part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning Multi Academy Trust, successful candidates will have full access to our staff benefits package, including a bespoke CPD package, discount on high street shops, gym membership, cinema tickets, cycle to work scheme, Employee Assistance Program and much more.

All school-based posts are defined as Regulated Activity and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Criminal Records Bureau check.

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.

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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.

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 Kents Hill School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 93 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kents Hill School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kents-hill-school

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