Nursery Teaching Assistant - 26.5 hours per week - Term Time Only

Oakridge Primary School, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST17 0PR

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  6 January 2025

• Closing date

  15 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Part time: 26.5 hours per week Working hours are 8.30am – 3.30 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Monday and Friday are 8.30 – 12.00 although there is the possibility that this may increase depending on need.
• Contract type: Fixed term - Initially this is a fixed term contract from January to July
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,500-£23,893

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting and facilitating learning, delivering intervention support and conducting assessment of pupils. With solid experience of working in the Foundation Stage, you will work collaboratively with our Nursery Manager to plan engaging learning opportunities, demonstrating your enthusiasm for early years and your ability to work to high standards.

Your understanding of how children learn, together with excellent organisation skills and the ability to communicate effectively will enable you to shine in this role. Your creativity and pride in fulfilling your role will support your ability to provide a stimulating and inclusive learning environment.

As a forward thinking, innovative school, which is outstanding in all areas, you will join a dedicated, hardworking team, and have opportunities to access first class continuous professional development.

What the school offers its staff

Oakridge is a thriving and successful primary school that prides itself on providing the highest standards of education for the children in our school community. We expect our pupils to reach for the stars and it’s no different for our dedicated team of professionals. We are a school with an ambitious vision and are seeking a self-motivated, committed and proactive practitioner to join our team.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The school follows safer recruitment practices. Successful applicants will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks including enhanced DB Service check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975/2013/2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@oakridge.staffs.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Oakridge Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 217 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Oakridge Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@oakridge.staffs.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01785 337300
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oakridge-primary-school (opens in new tab)

Oakridge is a thriving and successful primary school that prides itself on providing the highest standards of education for the children in our school community. We expect our pupils to reach for the stars and it’s no different for our dedicated team of professionals.

Oakridge has many qualities, the most important of these being a dedicated and caring staff who share a wealth of experience. In addition we have excellent facilities and enjoy support from the community at large. These factors help us to provide the highest standards of education for your child. In partnership with parents we strive to ensure continued academic success and develop personal qualities in pupils of which we can be proud.

Our curriculum, whilst complying with National Curriculum, is skills based focusing on teaching children to be outstanding learners, providing exciting and challenging learning opportunities steeped in real life experiences. We seek to provide every opportunity for children to apply Literacy, Numeracy and Information technology skills across their learning in addition to co-operative group work and presentation skills.

We want all children to achieve the highest possible standards and make maximum progress in relation to their prior learning. We want children to enjoy acquiring and using knowledge and skills, to question and explore, to acquire positive attitudes, behaviour and personal beliefs and gain independence to become lifelong learners.

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