Nursery lead

Moorland Primary School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 4ND

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  13 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  26 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,816.18 Annually (Actual)

Nursery lead job summary

Moorland Primary School is a nurturing, inclusive and ambitious school at the heart of its community. We are proud of our strong relationships, high expectations and unwavering commitment to ensuring every child feels safe, valued and successful.

As part of Campfire Education Trust, we benefit from a strong collaborative network of schools committed to excellence, inclusion and continuous improvement. Staff at Moorland are supported through high-quality professional development, collaboration across the Trust and opportunities to share and develop best practice alongside colleagues from other schools.

At Moorland, we recognise that children thrive when they feel a true sense of belonging. We are passionate about inclusion and committed to ensuring that all pupils — regardless of need, background or starting point — are able to access a rich, meaningful and aspirational education.

We are seeking a passionate, nurturing and highly committed Nursery Lead with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) to join our Early Years team and play a key role in shaping children’s earliest experiences of education. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is driven to make a genuine difference to children and families and who understands the importance of strong relationships, high expectations and high-quality early learning provision.

The successful candidate will lead our Nursery provision and may also have the opportunity to teach and support within Reception as part of our wider Early Years provision.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Children have a right to be cared for and protected, protecting them is everyone’s responsibility. Here at Moorland Primary School we have a duty of care to ensure that all users of the school are kept safe from harm. We have an ethos in which children and adults can feel safe, are valued, respected, and listened to. We will never lose sight of the needs of individual children and the duty to take action to safeguard them.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Moorland Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 197 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Moorland Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/moorland-primary-school-mk6-4nd

We are a thriving primary school providing education for children aged 3 to 11 years old. We work closely with our local Family Centres and a range of other external agencies to ensure that we can support all our children and families as best as we can. We are a friendly, nurturing school and work in partnership with parents and carers to provide an excellent education in a secure, stimulating environment.

We truly believe that "Together we can"

We have developed seven core values for our Moorland community. These are our RESPECT Values of Resilience, Empathy, Self- Awareness, Passion, Excellence, Communication and Teamwork. We believe that a happy child is a successful one, so we are working hard to design a curriculum that is adventurous, challenging and enjoyable. We are committed to ensuring that every child feels valued and we will always aim to provide high quality learning opportunities to enable every child to succeed and become passionate and resilient learners.

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