Teaching Assistant (Nursery)
Walton Holymoorside Primary School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S42 7DU13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1 September 2025
Closing date
9 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £16,736.01 Annually (Actual) Please note the salary quoted is the actual salary for 25 hours per week. The role is term time only and is fixed term to 31.8.26
Teaching Assistant (Nursery) job summary
We are inviting candidates to apply to become part of our fantastic nursery team. We are an established, happy, successful nursery department, which is part of Walton Holymoorside Primary School on the outskirts of historic Chesterfield. We have a stunning countryside location within the village of Holymoorside, with extensive school grounds including an established forest school and beautiful nursery garden. The department is staffed by a well-established, supportive, and welcoming team, and we want another passionate early years professional to join us and become a valued member of our early years team. We provide 26 places for three and four-year-olds, many of whom attend full time. The school and nursery were opened in 2002, and our department was purpose-built. We believe in the holistic development of children and encourage independence and a love of learning through providing exciting and dynamic learning opportunities. Our nursery follows the school’s opening hours and term-time patterns. The hours of the position are 12 pm – 4 pm Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and 8 am – 4 pm Thursday and Friday. As part of a successful academy trust, training and professional development opportunities are available. We work closely with the Reception unit and are fully included in the wider school community and seen as an essential part of the school.
We look forward to meeting you and would encourage you to visit us.
Context
The descriptions below of our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ define the work we are developing as a Trust. They are an aspiration, and we are always striving to achieve them.
We ensure our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ hold us to account for the work we do.
Why do we exist?
Our purpose is to ensure every LEARNER has choices about their future
Our first job is to support and extend learning for pupils to provide them with the skills and knowledge to make those choices.
Our second job is to make sure no child is ignored, no family is unsupported and no life is wasted, by providing intervention at the earliest opportunity.
Our responsibility to education is to provide an environment where practitioners can collaborate, learn from each other, take risks and reflect.
How will we act?
We will use our purpose as a driver for our culture, ensuring we are;
Connected (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)
Helpful (embracing servant leadership and use initiative to solve the problem)
Organised (employing efficient strategies and trust colleagues to deliver)
Informed (asking coaching questions to understand what is happening)
Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)
Effective (only retaining our best elements and looking for continuous improvement)
Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)
What is our strategy?
We will use our culture to ensure the work of the Trust;
Focuses on creating capacity (time and resources) for schools
Ensures support is agile, providing intervention at the earliest opportunity
Supports schools to employ and invest in the best educators for children
Seeks continuous improvement and disruptive innovation
In return we offer being part of a friendly team who value our staff members and are a hardworking and enthusiastic team with the desire and skills to improve outcomes.
As a Trust we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
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 are not accepted.
About Walton Holymoorside Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 369 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Walton Holymoorside Primary School website
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