12 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    10 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    27 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

H2-3 depending on experience

Teaching Assistants/Nursery Nurse job summary

Are you an enthusiastic, flexible and creative person with a passion for Early Years? Do you have experience of working with Nursery age children, and strive to make the difference in children’s lives? We can offer a well-resourced environment both within the classroom and outdoor garden area. We have motivated and enthusiastic children and a supportive Governing Body.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic teaching assistant/nursery nurse to work mornings in one of our nursery classes. You will be required to take on a key worker role, contribute to Learning Journals and be able to contribute to a high quality EYFS environment which supports effective learning, communication and social interaction.

The school is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and strongly encouraged prior to application. Please contact our office admin team on 020 8953 2106 to arrange a time to come and meet us and look round.

We can offer:

-A fun, friendly, dedicated and collaborative staff team

- Wonderful children

- Supportive parents/carers

- A well-resourced environment with superb outdoor facilities

- Excellent opportunities for continuing professional development,

Please look on our website for further details about our school www.meryfield.herts.sch.uk.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
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About Meryfield Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
432 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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School location

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