Job Description

Organisation

School

Job Location

St Mary's CE Primary School

Work Hours

32.5 hours per week (hours are negotiable)

Salary

Grade 6

Special Requirements

Enhanced DBS required

Closing Date

25/07/2025

Job Reference

15844

The early years are the foundation stone to life-long learning. Do you want to be part of our amazing nursery provision which is expanding to include 2-year-old pupils from September 2025?



Thank you for your interest in our advertised position: Nursery assistant / Early Years Practitioner. We are looking to appoint exceptional candidates and qualified childcare professionals with the responsibility for a key group within our preschool provision. You will perform an important role caring for children and maintain a high quality, stimulating learning environment. You will be creative and reflective and are able to implement new ideas and use a range of strategies to continually improve practice and work as part of the Nursery team.




As a maintained school Nursery, St Mary's will have a teacher-in-charge whose role will be to facilitate high-quality teaching and learning planning and to support the team in delivering our goals and objectives.




Information about our school:



We are a large (three-form-entry) primary school situated in the city centre of Southampton. We serve a diverse community with almost three-quarters of our pupils speaking English as an additional language.


We are led by an Executive Headteacher and a large leadership team that incorporates staff from sister-schools: Mason Moor Primary and Valentine primary




Our offer to every colleague:


Bespoke professional development opportunities. Cutting-edge technology for the planning and delivery of lessons. Use of multi-collaboration platforms to simplify the process of lesson planning. A device to help your planning, preparation and assessment. A 'Staff wellbeing charter' with perks including, a paid days leave throughout the year for personal wellbeing. A commitment to reduce planning.

Application information:

Your interview day is a mutual process aligned to helping you to decide if this is the school to advance your career in. We aim to make the day as supportive as possible. Any questions pre or post application can be sent to Dani Mitchell, our school business manager dani.mitchell@stmaryspri.org.uk

It would be expected that the post holder can demonstrate strongly the competencies outlined in this post definition to be shortlisted for interview.



The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to satisfactory references, health checks, social media checks and an enhanced DBS clearance.


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