Early Years Practitioner
Millbrook Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 7LBThis job expired on 28 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £16,590.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 4
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 our Early Years team in Reception!
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?
Are you a good communicator with high expectations?
At Millbrook, we believe the early years journey (nursery and reception) 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 of 4 days also considered) Early Years Practitioner to work in 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.
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.
About Millbrook Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 482 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Millbrook Primary School website
Millbrook Primary School
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Our vision is to be recognised as an exceptional school, a school where every member strives to help each other to be their best each and every day.
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