What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting and facilitating learning, delivering intervention support and conducting assessment of pupils. With solid experience of working in the Foundation Stage, you will work collaboratively with our Nursery Manager to plan engaging learning opportunities, demonstrating your enthusiasm for early years and your ability to work to high standards.
Your understanding of how children learn, together with excellent organisation skills and the ability to communicate effectively will enable you to shine in this role. Your creativity and pride in fulfilling your role will support your ability to provide a stimulating and inclusive learning environment.
As a forward thinking, innovative school, which is outstanding in all areas, you will join a dedicated, hardworking team, and have opportunities to access first class continuous professional development.
What the school offers its staff
Oakridge is a thriving and successful primary school that prides itself on providing the highest standards of education for the children in our school community. We expect our pupils to reach for the stars and it’s no different for our dedicated team of professionals. We are a school with an ambitious vision and are seeking a self-motivated, committed and proactive practitioner to join our team.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The school follows safer recruitment practices. Successful applicants will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks including enhanced DB Service check. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975/2013/2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.