What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you have any experience and/or training with children in the Early Years?
Do you have the patience to provide the emotional support and nurturing that the youngest pupils in the school can require?
Are you an excellent practitioner who knows how to motivate polite, well behaved children and support teaching colleagues to bring them on with their learning?
Can you embrace the challenge of supporting children to make progress with their learning regardless of their starting point?
Can you manage the daily challenges that come with supporting a child displaying behavioural difficulties and developmental delay whilst supporting that child to make progress despite those difficulties?
What the school offers its staff
We require a 1:1 Classroom Assistant for EYFS from 1st January 2025. This position will require the successful candidate to work 1:1 in support of a child with an EHCP. Initially based in EYFS, the successful candidate should be prepared to work across any age group within the school if required.
Visits to the school are encouraged. Please make an appointment with the Headteacher, Mr Matthew Try, through the School Office at Hillcrest Primary School.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.