Preschool Teacher
Ark Schools, London, W12 7TF36 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week - Full-time (Monday to Friday)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Competitive
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Responsibilities:
- To promote the aims and objectives of the nursery
- To facilitate the implementation of the curriculum across the nursery
- To develop and refine the continuous provision and enhanced provision to support quality play
- To lead the teaching of songs, reading and key vocabulary in preschool daily
- To support the preschool team to plan effectively based on what children know already, need to know, and how to support children to make progress over time
- To promote the high standards of the nursery at all times to parents, staff, and visitors
- To follow the nursery safeguarding procedure to ensure all children are kept safe, well, and secure
- To ensure the provision of high standards of physical and emotional care
- To work with families and parents / carers
- To keep records of your children’s development and learning journals and share this with parents and carers and ensure all record keeping is up to date and accurate
- Liaise with the local authority and other external agencies as required
- Participate fully in team meetings and training
- Read, understand, and adhere to all policies and procedures within the nursery
- Ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained
- Washing and changing children when required
- To provide cover when required
- To undertake any other duties as determined by the management
Key Requirements:
- Full and relevant level 6 qualification or Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Right to work in the UK
- An awareness of keeping children safe, noticing safeguarding and welfare concerns, and knowing how and when to take appropriate action
- A team player that can work collaboratively as well as using own initiative
- The ability to reflect on your own practice and a commitment to continuous improvement
What the school offers its staff
About Ark Start:
Our dedicated team work together to ensure that every child has a joyful, engaging, and secure nursery experience and leaves us ready to start school happily and confidently. We are driven by our values in every thing we do: AimHigh, BeBrave, BeKind and KeepLearning.
Benefits
- A Real Living Wage Employer:We are a Real Living Wage employer with a minimum salary of £13.15 per hour for all roles in London. We also pay 11% pension contributions
- Ongoing Learning:We are committed to providing the best development for all our staff and we work hard to ensure there are clear career progression routes
- Annual leave:We are proud of our staff and want everyone to feel valued for playing their part. That’s why staff receive 25 days holiday each year, excluding bank holidays
- Wellbeing:Staff wellbeing is incredibly important to us. We know that while incredibly rewarding, working in a nursery can be challenging. We therefore work hard to ensure all staff have the support and infrastructure they need to take care of their wellbeing
- Part of a Network:Ark Start is part of Ark, a charity that aims to transform children’s lives through education. Ark operates a network of 39 schools across London, Birmingham, Portsmouth, and Hastings as well as a number of charitable ventures. Being part of a network means our staff get access to the opportunities, infrastructure, and support of a large organisation.
Commitment to safeguarding
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
All employees must undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ark Schools
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Ark Schools website
- Email address
- adam.maynard@arkstart.org.uk
We’re an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. In the UK, we’re a network of 39 schools, educating around 28,500 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference and we’re recognised as one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country. We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools. So, we create and incubate Ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems.
Arranging a visit to Ark Schools
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email adam.maynard@arkstart.org.uk.
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