Nursery Assistant/ Early Years Practitioner - St Mary's CE Primary School

Southampton City Council; Southampton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Southampton City Council as a Nursery Assistant at St Mary's CE Primary School, where you will play a vital role in shaping the educational foundations for young children. This full-time position requires creative and qualified childcare professionals to nurture and stimulate a positive learning environment, fostering development for 2-year-old pupils beginning in September 2025.

Benefits

Bespoke professional development opportunities

Paid leave for personal wellbeing

Qualifications

• Candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to safeguarding and supporting children.
• Ability to implement new ideas and strategies for child development.
• Experience in a preschool setting is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Caring for children and creating a stimulating learning environment.
• Collaborating with the Nursery team to deliver quality education.
• Assessing and improving educational practices continuously.

Skills

Childcare

Creativity

Teamwork

Job description

Nursery Assistant/ Early Years Practitioner - St Mary's CE Primary School

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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

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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