Pre-School Practitioner

Alderman Jacobs School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1XJ

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 November 2025

• Closing date

  15 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (FTE) SCP 3-6 (Pro rata for part time hours worked)

Pre-School Practitioner job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Pre-School team and support our youngest children to develop ‘energy for learning, life and the environment’ in a highly regarded setting.

Our Pre-School operates 2 sessions per day to local children aged 3 and 4.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a passion for working with Early Years children with enthusiasm and energy
• Is able to work as part of a team and can form excellent relationships with children, colleagues and parents
• Is committed and hardworking
• Is able to motivate and inspire children
• Has high aspirations for what children can achieve
• Is keen to continue learning themselves

We can offer:

• A large, friendly, well resourced school with a ‘family feel’
• A hardworking staff team who are supportive of one another and child-centred
• Lots of high quality staff training
• A supportive Multi-Academy Trust and access to a Trust Employee Assistance Programme

We would be delighted to show you around our school and visits can be arranged by contacting the school office on 01733 202403 or via email office@ajs.education

Alderman Jacobs Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All staff will be subject to An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check and Disqualification by Association.

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

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Alderman Jacobs School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 658 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Alderman Jacobs School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/alderman-jacobs-school

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