EYP Lead

Lime Academy Abbotsmede, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 5JS

9 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  31 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Early Years Practitioner
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,095.38 - £26,975.67 Annually (Actual) NJC Points 19 - 21, term time only (39 weeks per year)

EYP Lead job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 9 schools over 11 locations across Luton, Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and five special schools, with 2500 pupils and over 760 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:

- Learners are safe and enjoy learning

- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

- Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure. The Trust has also added an additional week's closure making the school holidays 14 weeks per academic year.

Overview of role

The role involves supporting our pupils, our curriculum and working to effectively communicate with our families. Overall, it involves leading our Nursery to continued excellence. Maintaining and building on the standards which already exist and providing the best care and education possible for our youngest Abbotsmede learners.

You will have the skillset to plan, deliver and assess a Nursery curriculum, observing children’s development and progress. Organisation of the curriculum and the resourcing of the provision will be second nature to you. You will have a keen eye for health and safety and champion safeguarding as a priority.

We are looking for a leader, a colleague and an excellent practitioner. Someone who is able to model and recognise best practice in the Nursery setting and go the extra mile for our learners. At the same time, you would be responsible for leading a team of excellent Nursery practitioners – supporting them on their own learning journey.

You will also be somebody who is aware of updates with regards to research and pedagogy and best practice in the Nursery environment.

Please see the Trust Benefits brochure attached to this advert on how we support and value employees who work for Lime Trust.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.

Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact Deboragh Bowles on 01733 566847 or via email at admin.abbotsmede@limetrust.org to discuss the role further or to arrange a visit.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Lime Academy Abbotsmede

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 461 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lime Academy Abbotsmede website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lime-academy-abbotsmede

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