Pre School Lead
Shillington Lower School, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 3NX7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
12 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,990.00 - £24,974.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Scale points 17-22 (Level 4E) £15.58-£16.93 per hour
Pre School Lead job summary
Pixies Preschool is proud to be part of Shillington Lower School which belongs to the Shillington Stondon Federation. It is set in the beautiful grounds of the school in its own dedicated provision. The Preschool make use of the school grounds and main school provisions including hall and library.
Our Preschool provides sessional childcare for children aged 2 years 9 months to up 5 years. Most the children then apply to join our Reception class. Our small professional team are dedicated to ensuring each child receives the highest standard of care and education whilst having great fun along the way. We are open 9am – 3.15pm from Monday – Friday, term time only and offer spaces to up to 20 children.
We are looking to appoint a positive and highly self-motivated leader with a calm and caring disposition and a can do attitude, to join our team. You will be knowledgeable in best practice in the sector; a confident communicator with parents and carers and a team player. The Preschool leader is responsible directly to the Federations’ senior leadership team meaning the role has a high level of autonomy. You will have experience of working in childcare and hold an NVQ3 Childcare & Education qualification or equivalent.
We are seeking applications from people who can work 32.5 hours per week, term time only including inset days.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, apply as soon as you can.
Visits to the Preschool setting are encouraged. Please email the school office on office@shillingtonlower.co.uk to arrange a date and time. In the meantime our website https://www.shillingtonstondon.co.uk/web/pixie_pre-school/553720 contains more information about the setting.
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 are not accepted.
About Shillington Lower School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 9
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 126 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Shillington Lower School website (opens in new tab)
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