Nursery Practitioner

Hawkchurch Church of England School, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5XD

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  24 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  14 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,583 FTE

Nursery Practitioner job summary

A small school with a big heart! Hawkchurch CofE Primary School, our lovely village school is situated in beautiful east Devon, on the Somerset and Dorset border. Our rural location makes for an excellent learning environment, where everyone matters.

Our school is dedicated to providing a high-quality education rooted in Christian values. We are a warm and welcoming community that embraces diversity, inclusion and respect for all.

The role will require you to:

•        Hold a level 3 childcare qualification

•        provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children in the setting.

•        work as part of a team, alongside the EYFS Teacher, in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.

•        build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met.

The position is for 32.5 hours per week

Term time only (38 weeks per year)

Why work for us

• Professional and career development pathways, coaching and mentoring
• Fast-track process to explore new opportunities across the trust family of schools
• Access to either the Teacher or Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on the role)
• Access to a free and confidential employee wellbeing programme
• Tax-free cycle-to-work scheme

 

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 Hawkchurch Church of England School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 39 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hawkchurch Church of England School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hawkchurch-church-of-england-school-axminster

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