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Job Title: Early Years Teacher

Responsible To: Nursery Manager/Primary School Nursery Manager/Deputy Headteacher/ Headteacher/Director

Salary: Up to £25,000 – depending on experience and qualifications

Contract Type: Permanent and plus benefits

Hours: Full and part time term, time and non- term time positions.
Must attend all staff training and meetings

Job Description:

This establishment are looking to appoint an Early Years Teacher who is passionate, hard working, and versatile to join our busy team. You will need to have a good knowledge of the effective teaching and learning across Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and be committed to supporting the children to reach their full potential. NQT/RQT’s are welcome to apply and full support will be provided.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• To enable young children to make good progress in their learning by building upon the skills they have when they join the school in nursery or reception class
• To assist all children to develop emotional security, self-belief and mature social skills
• To assist all children to develop a love of learning and an excitement about coming to school each day
• To guide all staff members for the progress that the children they teach make during an academic year
• To take on some ownership and leadership responsibilities
• Planning learning rich and stimulating activities that the children are able to achieve good progression by understanding:
  • Identifying clear learning objectives and learning content, appropriate to the subject matter and the pupils being taught
  • setting exciting and intriguing tasks for whole class learning, small group learning and self-initiated,
  • exploratory learning.
  • setting clear targets for pupils’ learning that build on prior attainment
  • identifying pupils who:
    • Have special educational needs
    • Are high attainers
    • Are not yet fluent in English
  • Ensure that learning is appropriately differentiated so that the learning is well pitched and all pupils are challenged at their current level of understanding
• Create a high quality, rich, stimulating and enabling learning environment containing items that will capture pupils’ attention and lead to independent exploration
• Make effective use of assessment information on pupils’ attainment and progress when teaching and in planning future learning
• Plan opportunities to develop childrens spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
• Teaching and classroom management
• Ensure effective teaching of the whole class, and of groups and individuals within the whole class setting, so that learning objectives are met and childrens learning time is used efficiently
• Establish and maintain a purposeful learning, clean, stimulating, safe and secure atmosphere which promotes pupils’ confidence
• Set high expectations for the childrens behaviour, establishing and maintaining a good standard of discipline through well focused, engaging teaching and through positive and productive relationships
• Offering rich, captivating learning activities
• Setting the highest expectations for all pupils
• Clearly establishing a purpose for learning, placing it within a context
• Effective questioning that includes open and closed questions, together with the use of probing, supplementary questions
• Providing frequent opportunities for pupils to learn through talk and interaction
• Stimulating intellectual curiosity and communicating enthusiasm for learning
• Matching the teaching approaches used to the learning and development area of the curriculum and the age of the pupils being taught
• Modelling good language use to children
• Modelling good social skills to children
• Clear instruction, effective modelling and accurate explanation to the individual child
• Listening carefully to childrens, analysing their responses and responding constructively in order to take their learning forward
• Selecting and making good use of ICT and other learning resources which enable learning objectives to be met
• Providing opportunities to develop pupils’ wider understanding by relating their learning to ‘real life’
• Be familiar with the Code of Practice on the identification and assessment of special educational needs and, as part of the responsibilities under the Code, create and review One Plans for pupils with identified special educational needs
• Evaluate your own teaching critically and use this to improve your effectiveness.
• Monitoring, assessment, recording, reporting and accountability
• Assess how well learning objectives have been achieved and use this information to improve specific aspects of teaching
• Maintain good organisation and accurate assessments so that they offer a clear record of childrens’ progress and complete an EYFS profile for each child
• Be familiar with the statutory assessment and reporting requirements and know how to prepare and present informative reports to parents
• Understand the expected demands of the individual child in relation to the expectations of the Framework for the Early Foundation Stage -Management and administration
• Participate in administrative and organisational tasks related to the responsibilities described above
• Support students on placement in Early Years Foundation Stage classes
• Foster close relationships with parents/carers and the wider community. Assist them to support their child’s learning at home. Present a positive image of the school to all other stakeholders.
• The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment
• Record any accidents or incidents and report to line manager and parents/cares

Click here to download Early Years Teacher Person Specification

The setting is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. A full-enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) and pre employment health checks will be obtained prior employment including satisfactory references checks