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Forest Preschool Assistant

Horning Community Primary School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR12 8PX

This job expired on 14 November 2025 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  14 November 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  28 October 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: £13.26 - £13.47 per hour

Forest Preschool Assistant job summary

Part of the AIM Federation of Schools

Tel: 01493 700215

Email: operationsmanager@aimfederation.org

Website: http://www.aimfederation.org

• Salary - Scale D, £13.26-£13.47 per hour
• Fixed Term initially to 31 August 2026
• Part Time
• 13 hours per week (Th & F) 
• Term time plus 1 week

Are you a qualified level 3 early years practitioner, with an interest in Forest Schools? 

Horning Primary currently has 35 children on roll and is located in the heart of the Norfolk Broads in a beautifully quiet and remote site - surrounded by fields on all sides. The grounds of the school are a mix of wooded areas and open grassland - and nestled within it is our Forest Preschool provision.

Typical duties will include preparing play activities, supporting children in their play and learning and maintaining up-to-date learning stories..

You will also be expected to work within the relevant legislation, policies and procedures of the Preschool in order to keep the children safe. 

AIM Federation is a group of schools working towards a common aim to create children who are Global Citizens, able to understand their immediate locality yet be part of a wider world. We want to support this development with the potential of expanding it to our other schools.

Please contact Sam Wilkinson, Operations Manager at - operationsmanager@aimfederation.org. 

How to apply

A person specification is available from “Attachments”.

To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.

Completed forms should be returned by email to Sam Wilkinson on - operationsmanager@aimfederation.org 

Applications will be considered upon receipt. We reserve the right to interview suitably qualified candidates before the closing date.

Closing date: 14 November 2025, 12noon

Interview date: TBC

AIM Federation of Schools are committed to safeguarding children and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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.

This job post has expired.

About Horning Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 44 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Horning Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/horning-community-primary-school

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