Pre-school Lead
St Edmund's Catholic Primary School, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1QGThis job expired on 25 November 2024
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
25 November 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
6 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 37.5 hours a week, 39 Weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,269
Pay scale
- Grade 4 point 9
Hourly rate
- £14.13 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
Skills and experience details can be found on website.
Purpose of Job:
- Lead and manage the day to day running of the pre-school and sunshine clubs
- Compliance with all Health & safety, Early Years Foundation stage and OFSTED legislation and requirements
- Fulfil the duties as Designated Safeguarding Officer for the setting to promote the inclusion, safeguarding and welfare of children
- Act as SENDco for the provision with support from the school SENDco and Speech and Language therapist
- Undertake day to day supervision and appraisal of pre-school and sunshine club staff
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Oversee the efficient and effective day to day running of the pre-school in collaboration with the Early Years Foundation Stage Leader and Leadership team ensuring compliance with the Early Years Foundation stage Framework, OFSTED, Health and Safety Legislation, Food Hygiene Standards, and Equalities act.
2. Be responsible for provision of high quality inclusive child-care provision during the breakfast and afterschool clubs.
3. Ensure all policies and procedures are maintained and implemented.
4. In collaboration with the Early Years Foundation Stage Leader, be responsible for planning and delivery of a suitable learning programme for pre-school provision in line with EYFS.
5. Provide efficient administration, data collection and record keeping as required by relevant bodies.
6. Work towards and achieve agreed quality assurance schemes.
7. Maintaining an effective staff team through organisation of play buddies/key workers, supervision and appraisal, professional development and effective systems of communication.
8. In collaboration with Executive Head & Governing Body participate in recruitment and induction of staff, students and volunteers.
9. Maintain positive relationships with parents and carers to promote parental engagement in their child’s development and the setting as a whole.
10. Promote co-operative working with other agencies involved with the child and family.
11. Promote effective transition with schools when children transfer to statutory schooling.
12. Assist the Early Years Foundation stage Leader to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and quality of services provided, seeking support and advice where needed and implementing changes as required.
13. Assist the Executive Head and Finance Officer manage budgets related to staffing, premises, food, training and equipment.
14. In collaboration with parents and carers organise fund-raising activities.
15. Promote the Catholic Christian ethos of the setting including prayers and celebration of religious festivals within the context of Equalities legislation.
What the school offers its staff
St Edmunds Catholic Pre-school is seeking to appoint an experienced, innovative and dedicated Early Years specialist who can lead the pre-school. The new leader will have the opportunity to build on the current good practise based on a Reggio Emilia approach. The pre-school is a governor lead provision, and part of St Edmund’s Catholic Primary School.
The successful candidate will work closely with the school’s Foundation stage leader who oversees the early years foundation stage, and will be part of a supportive, hardworking staff team, including admin staff, speech therapist and colleagues in the school. As pre-school leader, the successful candidate will be the designated safeguarding lead and SENDco for which additional training will be provided.
The 26 place pre-school and before/after school clubs are open term time only (38 weeks per year). The successful candidate will work between 8am-6pm, five days per week with the exact workings times to be agreed. There will be some breakfast and afterschool club time within the timings.
The pre-school is located near the centre of Bury St Edmunds. The setting is housed in its own building within the schoolgrounds and makes use of the extensive school surroundings. There is an extensive programme of continuing professional development for staff and a supportive parent community.
For more information contact the Executive Head Maria Kemble by email, office@st-edmunds.suffolk.sch.uk or telephone 01284 755141.
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.
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About St Edmund's Catholic Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 442 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sbm@st-edmunds.suffolk.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01284755141
St Edmund’s is a primary school of approximately 400 children aged from 4 to 11. Each year has 2 parallel classes. It serves the Catholic community of Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket, Diss, Thetford and Brandon and the surrounding villages. Children and families from other faith communities or none are warmly welcomed to the school.
St Edmund’s opened in 1882. Since then it has been added to and refurbished. The library and a teaching block were completed in August 2000. The year 5 and 6 block were completed in 2015. The school enjoys beautiful grounds which are used to enhance the children’s learning.
The school accommodates St Edmund’s Catholic Pre-school and Sunshine Club in a purpose built unit providing pre-school education, before and after school care for children age 3 to 11years.
At St Edmund’s we seek to provide access to a broad and balanced curriculum within a community which aims to:
- Remember we are all loved individually and uniquely by God.
- Place Love, Justice and Compassion at the centre of our school.
- Grow closer to God through the development of our Faith.
Through the practical application of these aims, we are proud of the excellent academic success our pupils enjoy. During their time at St Edmund’s we work hard to ensure that each child grows in self-confidence and self-discipline, learns to care for those around them as well as their environment.
St Edmund's is Federated with St Joseph's Catholic Primary in Sudbury and the schools work closely together. Maria Kemble is the executive Head Teacher presiding over the schools. In addition, each school has a Head of school and a single governing body. The two schools share their resources, specialist teachers and subject leaders.
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