Nursery Assistant
Bosworth Academy, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 9JL7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
12 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
25 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 18 hours per week – worked flexible across 4.5 days, plus 4.75 fixed hours every Thursday (Total 22.75 HOURS PW)
Contract type
- Fixed term - To be confirmed - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,743 - £22,932
Actual salary
- £13,983- £14,100
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
- NVQ level 2 in childcare or equivalent
- Paediatric First Aid qualification (or willingness to train)
- Basic food hygiene qualification
- Child protection/safeguarding training (or training provided in post)
- An awareness of supporting the needs of vulnerable children and those with SEN
Desirable:
- Experience of observation/monitoring of children
Knowledge and Skills
Essential:
Knowledge of the EYFS curriculum and other national standards/codes of practice
- Willingness to extend knowledge of best practice in early years care and education
- Ability to communicate positively with children and carers
- Ability to offer a positive, committed and flexible approach to working within a childcare environment
- Awareness at all times, of health and safety requirements in the nursery. Desirable Personal Attributes Essential
- Ability to work flexibly to the practical demands of the role
- Enthusiastic with a willingness to work with all staff across the nursery and the academy
- Be professional and work with integrity, empathy and patience
- Able to manage sensitive and confidential situations
- Self-motivated
- Ability to interpret instructions and implement them effectively
- Must be able to perform all duties and tasks with reasonable adjustments, where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the Equality Act 2010
What the school offers its staff
Our Trust is dedicated to fostering a supportive, inspiring, and healthy workplace for all employees, centered on professional growth, wellbeing, and equality. Through initiatives like coaching and our Personal Improvement Plan (PIP), we focus on meaningful development over traditional performance metrics, promoting reflective practice and collaboration. We recognize that a healthy work-life balance and mental wellness are essential, and provide resources such as access to coaching, counselling, and physical wellbeing programs. Our commitment to equality, in line with the Equality Act 2010, aims to reduce disparities and champion diversity. Aligned with our “Presumed Professionalism” ethos, we trust our staff to manage their time flexibly to maintain a positive impact on our students and each other, setting an example of a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
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
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About Bosworth Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1613 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Bosworth Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@bosworthacademy.org.uk
Bosworth Academy is a popular and expanding 11-19 school, within the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust, which is increasingly the school of choice for parents in the area. We have high expectations of all our staff, which makes our faculty an exciting and progressive environment in which to work. The team is forward thinking and extremely supportive of each other, working collaboratively to secure high standards of teaching and learning. We are passionate in our goal of ensuring that our students get every opportunity to be the best they can possibly be.
Bosworth Academy is the lead school in the LiFE Multi Academy Trust, which has been recognised by Ofsted as an ‘Outstanding’ school in our recent inspection. We continue to develop our practice as we believe our community deserves nothing less and were awarded ‘World Class Status’.
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