Job Description

Beacon Education

Somerset
12.85 - 13.05 per hour


Expiring soon

Job type:

Part Time, Maternity Cover

Start date:

20 October 2025

Apply by:

22 September 2025

Job overview

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We are seeking to appoint an Early Years Practitioner to join our King Edward Road Nursery Team. This is a fixed term contract of 12 months to cover maternity leave. This contract will be 28.5 hours per week split over 3 days per week, working all year round.

Experience of working within an nursery setting is desirable but not essential as training can be provided by our friendly and supportive team.

Beacon Education is a group of like-minded schools that share common values and always put children at the centre of our thinking. Our family of academies work together to promote high academic standards and the development of good character

This position will be offered to the successful candidate subject to references and obtaining the necessary clearances.

Beacon Education adheres to Safer Recruitment procedures and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share our commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.

Beacon Education reserves the right to carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates. This will only include a search for information which is publicly available online. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that, when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered 'protected'. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:


https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share our commitment. A criminal disclosure check will be requested for any applicant who is offered a position

About

Beacon Education

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Beacon Education

Ponsford Road, Minehead
Somerset
TA24 5RH
United Kingdom

+44 1643 704191

Beacon Education (BE) is currently serving a mixture of nurseries and small and large schools throughout the West Somerset coastline and hinterland. As a multi-academy trust (MAT) we are a key partner in the West Somerset Partnership Board, the Somerset Association of Secondary Heads (SASH), The Somerset Association of Primary Heads (SASH), The Rural Teaching Alliance, and TeachFirst.



Instinctively collaborative and ambitious, our Trust supports more than 1,600 diverse children from birth to thirteen. Please have a look through the following pages which will hopefully give you a sense of what our Trust and schools vision, values, and aspirations are for the future. Most of all, we hope you are left with a feeling that the education of the young people in our schools is in safe hands.



We look forward to discussing the future of your school and opportunities within the BE family.

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