Nursery Lead

St Louis Catholic Academy, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 7AA

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st January 2026

• Closing date

  15 October 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  1 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,540.00 - £32,597.00 Annually (FTE)

Nursery Lead job summary

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

To be accountable for the delivery of high quality, inclusive childcare and early education, which is responsive to the needs of children and their families.

To lead practice within the setting. This should include: establishing and sustaining a safe and welcoming environment through the provision of appropriate, child-led and adult initiated experiences, activities and play opportunities. Ensuring children experience both indoor, and outdoor environments which enable them to develop and learn

Establish and consistently implement systems to assess, record and report on progress in children’s development and learning

Ensure that all practitioners understand the principles and content of the Early Years Foundation Stage and know how to put them in to practice

Ensure that practitioners have high expectations of all children and demonstrate commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full potential

Influence and shape the policies and practices of the setting and share in collective responsibility for their implementation

To ensure that the service delivery is maintained within current legislative requirements including the Welfare Requirements, Health and Safety and Safeguarding.

To work in partnership with parents / carers and other family members, providing formal and informal opportunities through which information about children’s well-being, development and learning can be shared to improve outcomes

Contribute to the work of a multi-professional team and, where appropriate, coordinate and implement agreed programmes and interventions on a day-to-day basis

Work in partnership with specialist agencies or professionals to ensure the safety and well-being of all children, identifying child or family support needs as necessary

Take responsibility for staff performance and development including interns, volunteers, students and sessional staff by role modelling best practice

Encourage take up and undertake outreach activities where appropriate

Be responsible for all administrative duties associated with the management of the project, eg maintaining records on the children and their families, monitoring and evaluating the service, ordering equipment, maintaining an inventory, keeping personnel records

Create and contribute to a working culture and practices that recognise, respect and value difference

Develop and implement monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure the delivery of high quality services

Undertake training as required

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About St Louis Catholic Academy

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 295 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Louis Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-louis-catholic-academy

St Louis Catholic Academy is part of Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Multi-Academy Trust. It is a thriving and happy school where the children are central to all that we do. The School is in the horse-racing town of Newmarket, within easy commuting distance of Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Ely, Mildenhall and Thetford.

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