EYFS Teaching Assistant
St Leonards, Heath and Reach, VA Lower School, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 0AX10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
4 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,656.00 - £24,404.00 Annually (FTE) Actual £10,549.30
EYFS Teaching Assistant job summary
NJC SCP 2-4
for 16.5 hours per week term time only (including Inset Days)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9-12am 1-3.30pm
About the role:
Supporting children in the Early Years Foundation Stage- Reception class (EYFS)
Working collaboratively with class teachers to deliver engaging and effective learning opportunities
Fostering a positive, nurturing and inclusive classroom environment
Assisting with classroom activities, supporting children’s learning, play and development
We are looking to appoint someone who is:
highly motivated, hardworking and committed;
able to support children of all abilities, through inclusive practice;
positive and flexible in their approach;
willing to support the Christian ethos of our school.
Experience of working in Early Years would be preferable but not essential.
We can offer you training and the opportunity to work in a welcoming and supportive environment with dedicated staff and enthusiastic and friendly children.
St Leonard's Lower School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are subject to satisfactory completion of safeguarding checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
St Leonard's Lower School is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership.
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 are not accepted.
About St Leonards, Heath and Reach, VA Lower School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 5 to 9
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 124 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Leonards, Heath and Reach, VA Lower School website
St Leonard’s is a community VA (Voluntary Aided) Church school and has strong links with both the Church and the village. There are 110 children aged from 4 – 9 years in the school and they are distributed between five classes.
The school is a very successful one with both 2011 Ofsted and 2017 Church Inspections judging us to be ‘an outstanding school’, one which is ‘very welcoming and ensures outstanding care, guidance and support for its pupils.’
We place a strong emphasis on the personal development of all our pupils and the care and guidance given by staff is outstanding, with Christian values underpinning all we do. All applicants will be expected to be committed to this ethos and also be able to show initiative and be genuinely committed to working with or alongside children.
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