Early Years Practitioner (Maternity Cover)
Watchfield Primary School, Watchfield, Wiltshire, SN6 8SD32 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
4 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,114.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) Support Staff NJC Grade 4. 30 hours per week. Actual annual salary in the region of £15,713 - £15,976
Early Years Practitioner (Maternity Cover) job summary
Situated in the village of Watchfield, near Faringdon, we have a wide and diverse school community and are looking for an enthusiastic Teaching Assistant for 30 hours a week to join our friendly school. We are proud to be part of the Cambrian Learning Trust, a nine school multi-academy trust, which was established on 1st April 2012. Our whole school vision is ‘At Watchfield We SOAR’ – at Watchfield we want everyone, children, and adults, to ‘SOAR’. This means we work hard to enable individuals, groups, and the wider school community to be: Successful, Original, Aspirational and Resilient. To help us to SOAR, We are seeking a full time or part-time Early Years Practitioner to work across our Early Years including our established pre-school.
We require an enthusiastic Early Years Practitioner to join our team.
We are looking for someone with:
Essential –
- 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
- level 3 NVQ in Early Years Education/Childcare or higher
Desirable -
- a paediatric first aid qualification
Someone 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!
- 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’
- works well within a team
- has a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude
- has a passion for working within Early Years
Main duties and responsibilities:
- To work as a member of the early years team to ensure that all children (from two to five) attending the early years 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.
- 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
In return we can offer you:
A welcoming environment where children want to learn;
The opportunity of working within a supportive Multi Academy Trust; and
Nearly 400 smiles in return for yours!
Telephone conversations or virtual meetings to discuss the post would be warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office to make an appointment on: 01793 782623 or email office@wat.cambrianlt.org
Watchfield Primary School & Cambrian Learning 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.
Cambrian Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.
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 are not accepted.
About Watchfield Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 361 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Watchfield Primary School website (opens in new tab)
Primary School in growing village, close to Defence Academy
10 minutes from Swindon and 20 minutes from Oxford
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