Early Years Teacher

Newton Road School, Rushden, Northamptonshire, NN10 0HH

19 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  31 December 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (Actual)

Early Years Teacher job summary

The Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic and ambitious Early Years Teacher who is committed to the highest standards of Education and who can demonstrate leadership and management skills compatible with our school’s vision, mission and values.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Early Years Teacher to join the team to fully support parents, students and staff as they work towards whole school improvement. This position would suit someone who is looking to expand their leadership skill and support the Principal to lead and further develop the provision of the EYFS curriculum.

We welcome applications from exceptional professionals with the right blend of experience, creativity, organisation, passion and flair.

The successful candidate should have high expectations of themselves with a professional working ethos and sound early years’ educational philosophy to drive the education agenda. This needs to be combined with exceptional communication skills to motivate both children and staff.

Your aim is to motivate children and use resources imaginatively to help them learn in a reception classroom. You’ll provide a safe and secure environment for them to develop their social and communication skills, while recording observations and summarising their achievements.

The culture and climate of our school is caring, inclusive and celebratory, and we believe this is the key to our successes: our children deserve nothing but the best and are welcomed into a safe and nurturing environment which supports each child’s growth, confidence and development of curiosity, awe and wonder.

Key Tasks:

• Work as part of the management team to implement and improve practice
• Motivate and stimulate a child’s learning abilities, often encouraging learning through experience
• Provide pastoral care and support to children within a secure learning environment
• Assist with the development of a child’s personal, social, language and physical coordination abilities
• Develop and produce visual aids and teaching resources
• Encourage mathematical and creative development through stories, songs, games, drawing and imaginative play
• Help children develop curiosity and knowledge
• Work with others, including teaching assistants and nursery nurses as well as volunteer helpers, to plan and coordinate work both indoors and outdoors
• Build and maintain relationships with parents
• Observe, assess and record each child’s progress
• Ensure the health and safety of children and staff is maintained during all activities, both inside and outside the setting

About You:

• Well-qualified graduate with appropriate degree
• Experience within an Early Years setting
• Experience with curriculum development work
• Experience across the age and ability range
• Ability to work in a team Excellent classroom skills
• Creativity and flexibility
• Commitment to developing teaching and learning

Benefits:

• Access to retail discounts and technology schemes.
• Access to Cycle to Work
• 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work-related matter.
• Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional
• An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged.
• Discounted gym membership
• Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours - while recognising our employee’s preferences for when they work
• Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes.

Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence process.

Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks.

We look forward to your response.

The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.

*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated

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

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 Newton Road School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 221 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Newton Road School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/newton-road-school

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