13 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    17 September 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    4 September 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: Hours: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (Term Time plus 5 active inset days). Opening hours are from 8.00am-17.00pm and working hours will be agreed by mutual consent.

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Salary: Grade E, £24,404 per annum pro rata (pay award pending)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Contract: Permanent

Salary: Grade E, £24,404 per annum pro rata (pay award pending)

Actual (approximate) Salary: £20,800 per annum (pay award pending)

Hours: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (Term Time plus 5 active inset days)

To start: ASAP

Do you have a passion for working with children and wouldlike to make a difference within their early learning and development?

Liskeard School Nursery are looking to recruit a qualified Early Years Practitioner with an Early Years’ Qualification at Level 3 or above to join our thriving team, ideally paediatric first aid trained. Opening hours are from 8.00am-17.00pm and working hours will be agreed by mutual consent. You will be working alongside highly qualified members of a professional team in a homely and friendly environment.

The applicant will be passionate in providing a safe, nurturing and enabling environment for all of our nursery children. You will be strongly focused on professional development, use your own initiative, liaise well with the SMART nurseries’ manager, be a strong communicator ensuring staff, children and parents are effectively supported.

Our pre-school environment is a wonderful and calming space for children to learn,

grow and achieve at Liskeard School Nursery! This is a rare opportunity and we are lookingfor someone who is as equally dedicated to;

  • Extending the children's knowledge and understanding within the world around them
  • Joining in with and creating exciting opportunities for role play (with lots of hair brushing,tea making and tower building)
  • Accessing vast outdoor space which allows both the child and you to feel refreshed, free and open to the wonders of nature
  • Be apart of a supportive, developing and wonderful team of individuals
  • Having your own ideas towards play opportunities which are recognised and supported by our wonderful team
  • Creating a big difference in our small nursery!

To find out more information about the role please email SMART-Nurseries@smart-trust.net.

An application form and further details are available from: https://www.smart-trust.net/information/vacancies

The closing date for applications: 9am on Wednesday 17th September 2025

Interviews will be held: Monday 22nd September 2025.

Please email completed application forms to hr@liskeard.net.

We are unable to accept applications made via CVs or applications from agencies.

What the school offers its staff

Our pre-school environment is a wonderful and calming space for children to learn,grow and achieve at Liskeard School Nursery!

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

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks and references, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, the Trust will undertake an online search of all shortlisted candidates.

Applying for the job

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About Liskeard School and Community College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1148 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Email address
hr@liskeard.net

Liskeard School and Community College is a friendly, caring, supportive school in Cornwall with people and relationships at its heart. It is a unique school of extraordinary staff and students and enjoys exceptional support from parents and the local community. We are proud of our school and we are relentless in our approach to make it even better. We take the education of our students very seriously.

Our school is situated in the historic market town of Liskeard, which is central to Cornwall’s outstanding south eastern countryside and coastline, serving the beautiful rural villages and hamlets and is just a scenic, 30-minute drive from Plymouth.

Assessed by Ofsted in March 2020 as a good school, we are an inclusive secondary community school delivering Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 to 1,100 students aged 11-18 and of mixed ability.

We are an academy school and part of the South East Cornwall Multi Academy Regional Trust (SMART), which provides for outstanding local career opportunities, excellent professional development opportunities and access to expert support, advice, guidance and knowledge pooling from fellow practitioners in our partner schools.

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