EYFS Practitioner
Garden City Academy, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 2JZThis job expired on 10 December 2023
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
10 December 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full - time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC E&W SCP 3-5 Pro Rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a passionate and engaging early years practitioner?
If you really want to make a difference, then this opportunity may be for you!
Garden City Academy is currently recruiting to the role of EYFS Practitioner. Duties include:
1. To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting.
2. To give support to their staff within the setting.
3. To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.
4. To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met.
We need:
An Early Years Practitioner to work with colleagues in the Nursery/Reception classes and create a stimulating, safe and caring teaching and learning environment. We are looking for an individual who is able promote the physical, emotional, intellectual and social development of every child within the Foundation Stage.
So, if you are:
- an excellent practitioner, keen to work in a supportive and principle-based school.
- driven by a strong moral purpose to enable all children to achieve and have integrity.
- passionate about creativity and have an excellent sense of humour.
- warm in character, easy to work with and committed to teamwork, recognising that more can be achieved together than is possible as individuals.
- a professional who values wellbeing but unafraid of hard work.
- calm and able to handle pressure and setbacks with a smile.
- keen to be challenged to become the best you can be.
- able to be pushed at an accelerated rate of development, and reflective and proactive enough to make it happen.
- determined to succeed with a ‘find a way or make one!’ attitude.
- committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A Leadership Team dedicated to helping you develop an outstanding career and balanced life.
- A supportive school that will provide you with the tools that you need to succeed.
- Exciting, leadership development and early promotion opportunities for the right candidates across the Trust.
- The chance to work with a fantastic team, with the best possible opportunities to share ideas, planning, assessment etc.
- Opportunity to work alongside outstanding teachers, to observe and share practice on a regular basis, developing pedagogy through reflectivity.
- The chance to use / develop personal curriculum strength
- An excellent CPD training programme.
- A dynamic, creative staff, dedicated to achieving whole-school improvement and building lifelong friendships
- The chance to make a real difference.
Further details about the role
Our aim is to ensure that every member of the school community feels included, valued and respected, and that each person is treated fairly and well. We are a caring community school, whose values are built on mutual trust and respect for all. We have high expectations of all our pupils and support each child to realise their full potential and be the best they can be.
Like most REAch2 schools, Garden City Academy serves a socio-economically deprived area. This means that we have to work extra hard to provide the life chances that every child deserves. This is a task that we do not shy away from but embrace it! To aid us, and our staff, in fulfilling this aim, we have robust processes and procedures in place and train and support our teaching staff accordingly. Garden City Academy is truly a school where an individual can make a difference!
This is
not just another job. This is a chance to be part of something exciting and
very worthwhile. This opportunity will open doors both professionally and
personally to anyone who joins our quest
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.
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About Garden City Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 185 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Garden City Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@gardencityacademy.org
- Phone number
- 01462 621800
Primary school, taking children from Nursery age - Year 6
Arranging a visit to Garden City Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@gardencityacademy.org.
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