Nursery Lead Practitioner

Sandhills Community Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8FN

29 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  20 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,559.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 8

Nursery Lead Practitioner job summary

Sandhills Primary School is a welcoming and supportive school with a team of enthusiastic staff who are committed to doing their best for the children and the community. The school is a family that supports and encourages everyone to work hard and care for each other.

Join our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Team working together under the direction of EYFS Lead Teacher/Headteacher and advising on practice, ensuring the best possible progress for all children

To take responsibility for leading the daily, weekly and termly programme for Nursery Aged Children.

To facilitate learning by supporting the needs of all children in accordance with the school policies and government initiatives in the pursuit of high standards of children’s achievement, particularly in the prime areas of learning and development.

To be a role model of high expectations and aspirations for young people, colleagues and other members of the school community and implement agreed school policies.

This is a term time only position.

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 Sandhills Community Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 233 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sandhills Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sandhills-community-primary-school-oxford

Sandhills Community Primary School is an inclusive school serving several vibrant and diverse communities on the outskirts of Oxford. There are currently 228 students at the school. We offer our children an ambitious curriculum, based around our core values of Respect, Relationships, Responsibility and Resilience, to ensure that all children have the opportunity to achieve their potential both academically and as citizens of the future. The school has recently been rated “Good” by Ofstead in October 2022.

Sandhills Community Primary School is part of the River Learning Trust, which presents opportunities for leaders and staff to work collaboratively and efficiently together between schools in the community. There is an extensive professional network across the Trust which supports and enhances collaboration, research and learning opportunities for pupils, staff and parents.

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