Pre-School Practitioner
Oak Lodge Primary School, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 0LJ15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Monday to Friday 8.30 am – 3.00 pm 8.30 am – 1.00 pm 12.00 pm – 3.30 pm Term time only, 38 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- BR4 point 12
What skills and experience we're looking for
- An Early Years Qualification Level 3 for the 8.30 - 3.00 role
- An Early Years Qualification Level 2 is preferred but not essential for the AM/PM roles
- Relevant experience delivering the EYFS framework within a pre-school setting
- A secure knowledge of child development
- To be able to work well as part of a small team and
- To bring excitement into the curriculum.
Paediatric First Aid certificate or willingness to attend training
What the school offers its staff
- A supportive school environment in which to develop your career.
- Opportunities to play a role in the wider life of the school.
- One paid Wellbeing Day per academic year
If you firmly believe that every child can thrive academically and emotionally irrespective of their individual needs, background, race or gender then this is the ideal role for you.
Further details about the role
Oak Lodge Pre-School is at the start of a new, exciting journey and bringing new members of staff into the team. We are able to offer you the daily experience of working with amazing children, laughing with like-minded colleagues and the opportunity to bring your own flair into our amazing new provision!
o Do you have an infectious smile?
o Are you able to play within the imaginary world of children?
o Can you make a mud pie and create glittery play dough?
If you have answered yes, to all three questions, and are looking for your next full-time career destination; then Oak Lodge would be delighted to welcome you into the staff team. The successful candidates will provide safe, high-quality education and care for young children which meets the individual needs of the children attending 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
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Oak Lodge Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 547 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Oak Lodge Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@mslt.org.uk
Oak Lodge Primary School is part of Mosaic Schools Learning Trust which is comprised of a family of ten strongly performing primary schools based in Bromley and Kent: Cage Green, Crofton Infant, Crofton Junior, Raglan, River Mill, Valley, Marian Vian, Wickham Common, Unicorn and Oak Lodge.
Oak Lodge Primary School is located in West Wickham, Kent, within the London Borough of Bromley and is an average-sized primary school in a popular area for families. The school is currently 2-form entry with 541 pupils on roll and is the 4th largest school within the Trust.
Oak Lodge is a happy and positive school where the children are at the heart of all they do. The school strives to ensure that each child develops a love of learning and achieves their personal best in a safe and nurturing environment. The last Ofsted report (October 2024) praised the school for delivering on its core values, namely where pupils are 'respectful, resilient and resourceful' and provided an impressive range of experiences to support pupils’ wider development. Progress levels are above average and attainment levels in reading, writing and maths exceed both the National and Local Authority Expected and Higher standards.
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