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Willows Early Years Practitioner (2 and 3 year old provision)

Richard Lee Primary School

We are looking to appoint an early years’ practitioner to work as part of our friendly and hardworking team initially to support in our Willows setting which provides for our 2 and 3 year olds within Early Years. This role may also require working across our Early Years’ provision supporting in Nursery for some sessions.

Our support staff team is integral to the school’s vision to ensure that all children achieve their full potential in all aspects of school life.  You would be part of our drive to successfully implement the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, ensuring a smooth transition across our range of age groups whereby we achieve an outstanding quality of education for every child.

Our successful candidate will be a motivated professional who will inspire and enthuse our children and support them in making good progress in their learning and social/emotional development.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience of working with children across the primary age range
• Has a desire to further develop their skills
• Has excellent literacy and numeracy skills
• Can support senior management in providing high quality childcare and education
• Can take responsibility for a group of key children and take responsibility for observing, planning, tracking and evaluating their learning and development and setting individual targets
• Will work in respectful partnership with parents/carers when supporting children in their learning and development
• Has a sound knowledge of behaviour management and SEND
• Is approachable and resilient

We can offer:-

• Hard working colleagues and support staff who are passionate about what they do
• A supportive Trust that is committed to helping the school move forwards

• Well-resourced classrooms in a recently built school and access to on-site woodland area and ‘Forest Schools’ activities.
• A strong team structure, collaboration opportunities and a commitment to your professional development with regular training and the support of Castle Phoenix Trust
• As part of the Trust, a strong commitment to staff wellbeing and recognition, through its people strategy, and a wide range of benefits which include the local government pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, free parking and an employee discount scheme and an annual support staff conference.

If you would like to know more please contact us. We are excited about our future – we would like to hear from you if you think you could be part of creating that future.

Application packs are available to download on www.wmjobs.co.uk, www.tes.co.uk, https://castlephoenixtrust.org.uk/job-opportunities/ or by email from Emma Over, Trust HR Director, HumanResources@caludoncastle.co.uk.

Completed forms are returnable to Human Resources via email on HumanResources@caludoncastle.co.uk  

Closing date: 16^th August 2021         Interview date:  Week Commencing 23rd August 2021

Richard Lee Primary School is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and vigilance