Job start date: 1 April 2025 or sooner if possible. Hours per week: 19.5 (0.6 FTE Wednesday to Friday) Ward End Primary School Ingleton Road Birmingham B8 2RA Telephone number: 0121 464 5424 Contact email: enquirywardend.org.uk Contract type: Permanent An exciting opportunity has arisen for an EYFS Teacher to teach, inspire and support EYFS team at Ward End Primary School. Starting April 2025. We are seeking an experienced, talented and professional who shares our vision of high aspirations and achievement with a passion for learning. You will be innovative and creative in your teaching and be a strong team player. We are a Reading School - you will have a passion for reading and developing this fully within the curriculum. Ward End is a 4 form Primary School with a 52 place Nursery (26 am/ 26 pm) EYFS is supported by Early Years AHT and Reception Lead. What we are looking for: experience of working in EYFS be enthusiastic and motivated to high standards for success be able to develop positive relationships with the team and our young children be able to develop an understanding of the educational, welfare and social needs of the children whom we are supporting be able to stay calm and objective when presented with challenges be enthusiastic and committed to working as part of a team be a confident and clear communicator with parents a commitment to raise the achievement of all students of all abilities a successful track record of improving performance outcomes Please see our website for further details, and come for a look around How to apply: Please download the job description and person specification and Apply Online Please note that offline application forms will not be considered - please submit an online application via the link above. Interviews: Week commencing 3 February 2025. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 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. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.