Higher Level Teaching Assistant (EYFS)

Northgate Primary School, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 1BP

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  2 July 2025 at 1am

• Date listed

  19 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,544.00 - £24,455.00 actual per annum

Higher Level Teaching Assistant (EYFS) job summary

Part of the Kingfisher Schools Trust

Email: recruitment@kingfishertrust.co.uk

Website: www.northgateprimary.norfolk.sch.uk

• Salary: £22,544.00 - £24,455.00 actual per annum (Grade F, point 12-17)
• Permanent
• Part time
• 35 hours per week
• Term time + 2 weeks
• September start date

At Northgate Community Primary School our vision is for children to be proud of themselves and strive to be the best that they can; to feel understood and supported to achieve success; to be safe and happy; to learn the skills to give them confidence to face the future; to know how to behave well; to be treated equally and to feel important within their school, family and the wider community.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Higher Level Teaching Assistant to oversee our nursery provision. You will be responsible for managing the setting on a day to day basis, including the planning and delivery of sessions in line with the EYFS framework. Please read the full job description.

The successful candidate will: 

• Have experience in Early Years with knowledge of the EYFS framework
• Have experience of planning and delivering educational activities
• Be a confident leader.
• Be child centred and committed to the ethos of our school 
• Be a reflective practitioner who considers the needs of all children. 
• Be keen to be part of a team, prepared to constantly review your practice and strive for excellence. 
• Be positive and have good interpersonal and organisational skills. 
• Be able to communicate with both children and adults.

We offer:

• A friendly school with a supportive staff team and well-behaved children who are ready to learn 
• Well-resourced classrooms and pleasant working environment
• A leadership team open to new ideas that lead to enriched learning
• Excellent opportunities for CPD.

Kingfisher Trust offers a range of benefits including: 

• Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development 
• Access to a huge variety of training courses through The National College 
• Pension scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contribution 
• Employee Assistance Programme for free and confidential advice 
• Shopping and leisure discounts 
• Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme 
• Affordable electric car salary sacrifice scheme 

Visits to the school are welcome, please email recruitment@kingfishertrust.co.uk to arrange an appointment.

How to apply

For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, you will be redirected to our recruitment website to view the job description and to apply using our online application form.

Closing date:    2 July 2025, 12noon

Interview date: 7 July 2025

Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.

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.

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 Northgate Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 418 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Northgate Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/northgate-primary-school-nr30-1bp

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