Level 2 Teaching Assistant for Pre-school and EYFS

Thomas Eaton Primary Academy, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0QS

6 days remaining to apply

Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
21 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 December 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: £24,790.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE)

Level 2 Teaching Assistant for Pre-school and EYFS job summary

Duration of Post: Fixed term until 31st August 2025, 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break, term-time only, plus training days.

We have an exciting opportunity to appoint a dedicated, resourceful and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our experienced staff team to work in our pre-school and EYFS classes.

You must demonstrate a good knowledge of the requirements of working with children within the EYFS, whilst having good planning and observations skills. As a result of your experience, you will have the ability to develop effective relationships with colleagues, children and parents and feel passionately about the rights of every child to achieve and thrive in education.

Every day you will be supporting children with a range of needs to access all areas of the early years’ curriculum, build relationships with those around them and translate the world around them, in a meaningful way.

The ideal candidate will have:

Level 2 childcare qualification;
Experience of working with children with additional needs;
The ability to build good relationships with children, parents/carers and colleagues;
A commitment to equal opportunities;
The ability to work in a team but also to use your own initiative;
Organisational and time management skills;
T he ability to focus learning in a proactive, creative and positive manner as well as evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities;

Benefits include;

Collaborative approach to working;

Opportunities to train/work with other academies within the Diamond Learning Partnership Trust to share best practice and resources;

A friendly and professional team;

Local Government Pension Scheme;

A caring and supportive working environment.

The Diamond Learning Partnership Trust is a charitable multi-academy trust. We are building a thriving community of schools that succeed on behalf of their children. The Family of Academies within the Trust currently incorporates two hubs; St Neots and The Fenlands.

The St Neots hub has nine academies; Middlefield, Winhills, The Round House, Wintringham, Great Staughton, Kimbolton, Roman Way, Braybrook and King James Academy. The Fenlands hub has six academies; Thomas Eaton, Glebelands, Leverington, Murrow, Gorefield and Burrowmoor. As such, joining our MAT means joining an organisation with an array of career opportunities that span fourteen different locations.

Visits to our Academy are warmly welcomed so that you can see our fantastic staff and incredible children in action. You are more than welcome to look around our school or ring the Headteacher for a chat on 01354 695915.

The Diamond Learning Partnership Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check, two satisfactory references and a Disclosure of Criminal Record and Disqualification Declaration.

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.