Teaching Assistant - Nursery

Teaching Assistant Vacancy

Term time only – part time 18.75 hours per week Monday to Friday

Start Date: 3 January 2022

Salary Grade 3 - £18562 - £18933 pro rota

Lane Green First School is looking to appoint an inspiring and motivating Teaching Assistant to join our wonderful EYFS team.  Governors and leaders are looking to recruit a new member of the school family who will support us in providing excellent nursery provision, ensuring that our pupils have the best possible start to their educational journey.

The successful candidate will work as part of the EYFS team to assist in the teaching of children and the creation of learning environments, both indoors and outdoors.  We are looking for a nurturing practitioner who will actively promote the ethos and philosophy of our caring and achieving school.

Our ideal candidate will be an outstanding practitioner (Level 2)  with strong personal drive, a nurturing persona and recent Early Years experience.  The ideal candidate will:

• Ensure the learning environment and resources are well organised, clean, safe and accessible to all children.
• Safeguard children, ensuring excellent education and childcare.
• Participate in children’s play and extend and stimulate language through effective conversation.
• Contribute, implement and evaluate the planning of the early years curriculum, under the supervision of the EYFS team.
• Be fully committed to the high expectations of Lane Green First School.
• Want to make a positive difference.

A completed application form, together with a personal statement, should be returned to Ann Walker in hard copy format or by emailing office@lanegreen.staffs.sch.uk.

Closing date: Monday 15 November 2021 (12 noon)

Interview date: Week beginning 22 November 2021 (practical and formal interview).

This School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The school follows safer recruitment practices and this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.  It is an offence to apply for a role which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you have been barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.