SEND Early Years Practitioner

St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre, Bristol, BS2 9JF

21 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 September 2026

• Closing date

  21 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  30 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,064.00 - £31,022.00 Annually (FTE) This is a term time post plus 5 inset days

SEND Early Years Practitioner job summary

Do you want to work in a supportive, inclusive and inspiring setting? We are looking for a curious, enthusiastic and committed early years practitioner with a passion for inclusion to join our team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated SEND team, led by our Lead SEND practitioner in a beautiful and inviting environment. Our SEND team are working across our setting to enable all of children to thrive, to celebrate their passions and fascinations, and grow their communication and interaction skills. Our SEND team have a dedicated classroom room with enhanced ratios and lower numbers of children as well as supporting children in the busier spaces in our setting.

Your role will be to support the lead SEND practitioner to: advocate for all our learners, enable all children to access the curriculum, help lead the SEND team, supporting practitioners across the setting to assess, plan for and respond to any emerging need or barriers to learning.

We are looking for practitioners who:

• Have real warmth and can build loving and trusting relationships with our children, families, team and community.

Can positively support children to actively explore the learning environment inside and outside.

Who have experience or interest in working with children with social communication differences and autism.

Who are observant to children’s attempts to communicate and encourage the use of words, signs and symbols.

Will work with the key person and other professionals to implement and monitor Individual Provision Plans and small group sessions (talking tunes, Attention Autism etc)

Can work with the team to ensure all children’s safety in our busy nursery environment.

Will support children in all areas of their physical care including changing and specialist feeding.

Enjoy responsibility and challenge.

• Are committed to providing an inclusive and creative environment.

In return we can offer:

A committed and highly experienced team with pedagogical leadership at the heart

Strong principles and values that underpin all we do

Supportive and challenging CPD opportunities, supervision, mentoring and coaching

• Opportunities to ‘get stuck into’ things, take the lead, follow your interests

A supportive and inclusive environment

St Pauls particularly encourages applications from suitably qualified Black and Minority Ethnic candidates and those who speak community languages, although all applications are warmly welcomed and will be considered on their merits.

Safeguarding and Child Protection is central to our work and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure

Start date of 2nd September 2026.

37 hours term time only with working hours of 8.00am-4.00pm

Salary range is £29064 - £31022 depending on experience (pending pay rise)

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 St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 5
• Education phase: Nursery
• School size: 132 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 5
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Pauls Nursery School & Children's Centre website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-pauls-nursery-school-children-s-centre

This is an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified or experienced practitioner to join our outstanding, vibrant inner city Nursery School & Children’s Centre.
Come and join our exceptional, reflective, creative, sensitive and supportive staff team and be part of our happy setting.
At St Pauls we strive to ensure all our children, families and staff teams feel valued, are inspired by learning and thrive in our learning community.
We hope this sounds like the sort of place you want to work in.
St Pauls is also a National Teaching School, so offers high quality professional learning and development, plays host to many visitors and is involved in developing and sharing research. All staff have opportunities to get involved in deeper level thinking.

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