Early Years Teaching Assistant Part Time 20 hours
Chelwood Nursery School, London, SE4 2QQ10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
10 July 2026 at 8am
Date listed
29 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 20 hours per week, term time only 11.30am-3.30pm 5 days a week.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- from £18,457 depending on experience (pro rata)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Your chance to join our wonderful Early Years team at Chelwood Nursery School.
Our wonderful, multi-cultural inner-city school is seeking motivated applicants for one Early Years Teaching Assistant posts to work as a core member of one of our class teams and to support over our busy lunchtimes.
Are you:
- committed to providing high quality, inclusive Early Years Education?
- dedicated to promoting children’s learning through play?
- interested in working with children with SEND?
- keen to work flexibly in a team to meet children’s wide-ranging needs?
- motivated to develop professionally?
Contract:
This post is a permanent post. This will be an annualised contract working 15 hours per week (11:00am 2.00pm) 39 weeks per year.
What the school offers its staff
We subscribe to an employee assistance programme which is free and confidential and offers a range of advice and support.
Further information about the job
Do you like:
- playing outdoors
- getting messy and muddy
- building dens
- sharing stories
- digging in the sand
- generally having fun interacting with children aged 2-4
then Chelwood is the place for you!
At Chelwood we believe that children come first. We are at the heart of our local community, offering outstanding early years education with a focus on the outdoors. We are looking for an enthusiastic and well organised person
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Chelwood Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 5
- Education phase
- Nursery
- School size
- 139 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 5
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Chelwood Nursery School website
- Email address
- admin@chelwood.lewisham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02076392514
Our Core Values
*Children come first
*Start with the developmental needs of the child
*Listen and respond to the many unique voices of each child
*Nurture the family to nurture the child
*Value play inside and in the ‘open air’
*Value and celebrate every individual
*Research-led early childhood practice
*Work in partnership to develop ourselves and others
*Develop confident, caring, independent children
*Challenge inequality, promote social mobility and safeguard the vulnerable.
In doing this we aim to:
*Provide an education of excellent quality, which raises the level of achievement in all children in our school within a happy, welcoming, relaxed and stimulating atmosphere.
*Create a learning environment which encourages a high degree of independence and autonomy in all the children, so that they can organise their own time and take responsibility for their own learning.
*Ensure a broad and balanced curriculum which focuses on developing the whole child and incorporates meeting the physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, linguistic, cultural and cognitive needs of each individual child.
*Value, respect and celebrate the rich mix of social and cultural backgrounds from which our children come and ensure that all the staff rigorously implement Lewisham’s Equality Policies regarding race, gender, religion, sexuality, disability, class and special educational needs.
*Enable equality of access to the curriculum for all our children with opportunities to make good progress in their development and learning.
*Work closely together with parents and carers in order to form a true working partnership, and thus share the important developments in these crucial early years of education.
*Support and encourage parents and carers in taking a full and active role in their children’s learning and in all aspects of school life. Strengthening home/school links and consolidating our ethos of partnership in order to raise achievement in all our children.
Arranging a visit to Chelwood Nursery School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@chelwood.lewisham.sch.uk.
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