EYFS Teacher

Cornerstone Academy Trust, Exeter, EX5 3JG

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  4 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: M1 - M6 per annum

EYFS Teacher job summary

Are you an enthusiastic and forward-thinking teacher ready to make a real impact? Whether you’re an experienced educator or an Early Career Teacher (ECT), we invite you to join our dynamic and expanding team at Cornerstone Academy Trust. Our Trust is nationally and internationally recognised for outstanding and innovative education. We are proud to lead the region’s Department for Education English Hub, supporting schools across the South West in delivering excellence in literacy and curriculum development.

We are looking for inspiring and professionally thoughtful candidates who must be able to use a range of teaching styles and appropriate strategies to meet the needs of all children. To be a successful candidate you will need to have experience of working in the Early Years, have an excellent knowledge of the EYFS curriculum and be both creative and passionate about learning. You must have high expectations for children’s outcomes in relation to the Early Learning Goals and be confident to lead a team of Early Years Practitioners to deliver those outcomes.    

You will be part of a strong trust-wide EYFS team that work together to create a high-quality provision from 2–5 years of age. Our schools offer an exciting, extended and enriched curriculum and expect all teachers to fully engage in the provision of this. You will also be expected to use ICT in a fully integrated way as a tool to support your planning, teaching, tracking of the curriculum and in the delivery of the activities within the classroom to support the children’s development.  

We are committed to helping you grow! You will benefit from weekly CPD sessions with other teaching staff in the Trust. We also have a strong ECT programme with dedicated mentoring and support from our ECT Lead.

Your Role

• Lead High-Quality Early Years Provision – Take overall responsibility for delivering excellent physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care and education for children, aligned with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

• Ensure Safety and Wellbeing – Promote and uphold safeguarding practices, health and safety standards, ensuring a secure and inclusive environment.

• Enhance Communication and Behaviour – Actively support children’s language development, positive behaviour, independence, and emotional resilience through effective strategies.

• Monitor and Assess Progress – Use observation and assessment to track children’s development, inform planning, and tailor provision to meet individual needs.

What You'll Bring

• Qualified Teacher Status

• Experience of working with children in EYFS

• Experience and knowledge of the EYFS and National Curriculum

• A nurturing, tech-savvy, and proactive mindset

• A passion for education and a commitment to pupil success

Hours and Salary

• National Teacher Pay Scale

• We are open to applications from those able to work full time but also for those who are seeking part time work, where this would need to be for 3 days per week. Please specify in your application what your availability is.

Perks

• Generous pension scheme

• Health and cycle-to-work schemes

• Subsidised meals from in-house chefs

• State-of-the-art IT equipment

• Extensive training and development

Apply Today

Be bold. Be inspiring. Be part of something bigger

Closing Date: 14th December 2025

Interviews may be held as applications are received.

Please complete the online application form.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020).  This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: 

 An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for all our posts. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Please note online searches may be done as part of pre-recruitment checks.

 We look forward to receiving your application and hopefully meeting you as part of the recruitment process. 

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 Cornerstone Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Cornerstone Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cornerstone-academy-trust

A multi academy trust, based in Exeter, made up of seven primary schools.

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