Nursery Learning Support Assistant

Scarborough, Overdale Community Primary School, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 3XJ

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  1 September 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  14 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Part time: 31 hours per week, 8:30 -15:10, Monday – Friday, Term time only
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,976 per annum full time equivalent
• Pay scale: Grade CD 3
• Hourly rate: £12.85 per hour

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can inspire and motivate very young children in their daily activities and make a positive difference to their formative years?

Our Opportunity

We are looking for a Nursery Assistant to join our thriving, friendly school. Our Early Years Offer covers pupils aged two into reception. Our 2-year-old provision (Acorns) was opened in January 2024 with brand-new, purpose-built furniture and resources to support our youngest children’s learning and development.

Opportunities for play are structured around the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance to ensure that all children receive a quality experience that supports their development and love of learning. Play is essential for development and in our EYFS, experiences are planned for the indoor and outdoor environments.

You will play a valuable role in getting children ready to start school, settling into an educational environment, and sparking a love of learning. Your work goes beyond traditional learning, you will promote social skills, independence, and safety; sowing the seeds for our pupils to grow up to become well-rounded individuals.

You will play a key role in supporting our pupils’ learning, play, and overall wellbeing. Under the guidance and supervision of the teaching staff, you will assist with daily routines, lead creative activities, and help deliver tasks aligned with the early learning curriculum. Working closely with teachers and parents, you will help create a nurturing and stimulating environment that fosters each child’s development, curiosity, and love of learning.

Visit our website to find out more about our Early Years Offer.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

- Hold a qualification that meets the DfE criteria to count towards the EYFS staff: child ratios.

- Experience of working with nursery/ reception children

What the school offers its staff

• A supportive, cohesive community – relationships throughout the school are welcoming, kind, inclusive and thoughtful
• A vibrant, happy school where we value everyone and have a philosophy of kindness and support for each other
• Children who are enthusiastic about learning and apply our school logo to every day: we listen, we learn, we shine
• A school with an exciting and attractive learning environment
• A leadership team who welcome fresh ideas, traditional values and a sense of teamwork
• Well supported teachers and support professionals who are committed to driving high standards
• An excellent working environment in a beautiful coastal setting

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.

Please contact us if you experience any difficulty with the application process.

Unfortunately, we do not accept CVs.

When applying please take into account the following:

Employment History

In line with KCSIE requirements, please complete your full employment history to ensure any gaps in your education and career history are accounted for.

Suitable References

When completing your application, please provide two employment referees. Generally, this should be your current and most recent Headteacher or line manager. Please note if your former Headteacher or line manager has since left, please use an alternative current senior staff member as they need to be in post at your former location to be able to confirm your details in full.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept personal references or personal email addresses.

Please get in touch for any queries if you are unsure.

Supporting Information

The supporting information section of your application should clearly evidence your ability to meet the requirements we have outlined in the job description & person specification. This will be used to shortlist applicants for this role and therefore it is imperative that you provide evidence as requested.

North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies and process applications on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We have a robust child protection policy and all staff will receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout employment at the school. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Scarborough, Overdale Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 354 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Scarborough, Overdale Community Primary School website
• Email address: chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk
• Phone number: 01609 536 964
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/scarborough-overdale-community-primary-school

Overdale Community Primary School is a highly regarded and thriving primary school with 258 pupils on roll.

These are exciting times for Overdale as we recently moved into our £6 million brand new purpose-built school in September 2021. The new building is absolutely state of the art, in terms of being eco-friendly and operating a high standard of technology. The school architecture is very contemporary. The school is well designed and welcoming, light and bright; this newness gives a feeling of empowerment and responsibility.

Alongside this, we have spacious classrooms benefitting from natural light and ventilation, creating the best possible learning environment for our pupils and best possible working conditions for our staff. Outdoors, we have two football pitches, a rounders pitch and a one-mile running track, along with an environmental area and quiet place with logs and other features.

We use our outdoor space for orienteering and problem solving. We can teach numeracy and phonics outdoors, for example, and we also have two outdoor gyms. The school now has double the capacity of the old building on the former site and the new location provides a link between the older parts of Eastfield and the new housing developments in Middle Deepdale to the north.

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