Pre-School Assistant
Willingham Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 5LEThis job expired on 15 May 2025
Start date details
September 2025 or earlier by agreement
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,404.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE)
Pre-School Assistant job summary
Pre-school Assistant required for 26 hours per week - 15 permanent hours per week plus 11 hours minimum temporary hours until August 2026 in the first instance. (Temporary hours are reviewed each academic year and are dependent on pupil numbers) Term time only
Honeypot Pre-School is a happy, friendly and thriving pre-school run by Willingham Primary School. We provide term time childcare sessions for children from the age of 2 to 4 years in a lovely purpose-built premise in the grounds of the school.
The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, caring and motivated with a Level 2 or 3 Qualification in Early Years, who is able to demonstrate:
- A passion for helping to deliver top quality care focused on each individual child
- Confidence with the Early Years Framework, implementing plans, undertaking planned activities and observations of children and peers
- An ability to work as part of a small staff team
- A track record of working in an educational or nursery environment
- Keyworker experience
- Good communication and inter-personal skills
Benefits of working for us include:
- On-going staff training and opportunities for professional development
- Wonderful children who want to learn
- A friendly and supportive staff team
- Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme, offering mental health and wellbeing support.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- 1 Wellbeing Day off a year
- Government Pension Scheme.
- Use of wrap around childcare provision.
Willingham Primary School and Honeypot Pre-school are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A DBS check and a disqualification declaration are required for this post.
In line with guidance from the Safer Recruitment Consortium, an online search will be completed for shortlisted candidates.
If you wish to find out more about the position, please phone Kate Van Dort the Pre-school Manager for an informal chat on (01954) 201567.
Closing Date: Thursday 15th May 2025
Short Listing: Friday 16th May 2025
Interviews: Week commencing 19th May 2025
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.
About Willingham Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 344 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Willingham Primary School website
At Willingham Primary School, we have created a welcoming atmosphere where all are respected, valued and we work hard to get better every day, from whatever our starting point.
Whether it’s in the way that the staff deliver their lessons; the content that is being taught; the attitudes of children with each other and towards their learning; or the effort that they put into their work, the expectation is that we improve together. We work so that each day builds upon the last and leads towards the next.
We offer teaching, founded in sound principles of cognitive psychology, to support each child to achieve their potential within a happy, friendly, caring community. We are committed to working towards providing children with an aspirational, knowledge-rich curriculum and to provide equality of opportunity, which will allow equitable success.
The discipline that we engender, in and out of the classroom, is evident in all areas of school-life and we support the children to become the best versions of themselves. We aim to foster strong relationships with parents and the wider village. We see ourselves as a cohesive part of the community and endeavour to make the community proud of us.
Willingham Primary School (WPS) is at the heart of the community. We are a medium sized school with currently 351 children on roll. Our purpose-built school includes classrooms, two halls, a library area, ICT suite, sensory room, on-site catering, and staffroom. Our spacious grounds include playgrounds, a playing field, wild-life area with pond, quiet outdoor learning spaces, and an outdoor swimming pool. We also have our own pre-school on site – Honeypot Pre-School.
Willingham Primary School is a Local Authority controlled, community school.
Our Mission Statement:
The WPS mission is "to provide pupils with the knowledge, experiences and confidence they need to excel at secondary school and so that they can make the choices, now and in the future, to have a happy, fulfilling life."
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