Teaching Assistant - Early Years Specialist

Robert Mellors Primary Academy, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 7EX

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  14 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week - Fixed Term / Term Time Only
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1st September 2025 - 31st August 2026
• Pay scale: Redhill Academy Trust Pay Scale, Band 7, Scale point 32 - 36

What skills and experience we're looking for

An exciting opportunity has opened up for an exceptional early years specialist teaching assistant to join our award winning early years team.

About the role -

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic early years specialist teaching assistant to join our dedicated and supportive team. To be successful in this role you will hold anEarly Years qualificationand be able to demonstrate your experience working in an inclusive environment with a diverse demographic. Applicants should be passionate and level headed and be able to manage a variety of young children's needs.

What the school offers its staff

We would encourage and welcome visits from potential candidates.

Robert Mellors Primary Academy, located in Arnold, Nottingham, is welcoming and friendly. Our ethos and culture are around our Make a Difference values; Respect, Responsibility, Focus, Teamwork, Resilience and Compassion. Pupils enjoy coming to the academy where they are offered a broad range of opportunities specifically designed to ensure personal development and academic achievement. Parents, community members and professional colleagues speak highly of the provision offered to children and pastoral support for families at Robert Mellors Primary.

Robert Mellors Primary Academy is part of Redhill Academy Trust. The Academy is also a member of Redhill College of Leadership and Development and as such there are excellent CPD opportunities and a chance to work alongside colleagues from other high-performing schools in the region. The Trust also leads the regional Teaching School Hub, delivering local teacher training and the National Professional Qualifications for teachers.

Benefits

• Access to Teachers Pension Scheme
• Recognised continuous local government service
• The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious team/school
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee benefits platform

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.

For further details regarding this post or to request a visit please contact Hayley Martin 0115 8408068, or to apply complete our on-line application form, please use the 'apply now' button. Please include the following in the additional information section of the application:

• Your reasons for applying for the role
• Your ideas on effective teaching and learning in an early years setting

If you have any questions or queries regarding the application process please contact the HR Team on hr@redhillacademytrust.org.uk.

As Redhill Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children practices, any appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS and Child barred list checks, candidate online search and successful references.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Robert Mellors Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 314 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Robert Mellors Primary Academy website
• Email address: hr@redhillacademytrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/robert-mellors-primary-academy

Arranging a visit to Robert Mellors Primary Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@redhillacademytrust.org.uk.

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