Job Title: Nursery Officer - St Mary
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
Hourly rate: £22.35
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Part Time
Term Time only post: Yes
Advert Closing Date: 06/06/2025
Job Overview
St Mary's School is looking to recruit a caring and creative Nursery Officer to join our hard working early years team. The successful candidate will have an excellent understanding of early childhood development and the drive to ensure the very best for all children.
Knowledge and experience of continuous provision in an early year's setting is highly desirable.
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Maria Stegenwalner. Tel: 01534 481690
St Mary's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Job Purpose
To provide the teaching staff with appropriate support in the planning, implementation and monitoring of education programmes to enable access to learning of students and to assist the teacher in the management of students and the classroom.
To provide the teaching staff with appropriate support in the planning, implementation and monitoring of special educational programmes to meet the needs of individuals or small groups with special educational needs. To support the physical welfare of the students, both in an integrated and extraction situation and supervise medication as prescribed by a physician.
Qualifications
Numeracy/literacy skills to a minimum of level 2 standard
NVQ 3 or equivalent qualification or Diploma in Childcare Education at Level 3 plus 2 years relevant experience
Training in at least two relevant strategies eg literacy and/or in particular curriculum or learning area e.g. bi-lingual, sign language Level 2, dyslexia etc.
Appropriate First Aid training
Knowledge
Can use ICT effectively to support learning
Use of other equipment technology – video, photocopier
Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation
Working knowledge of curriculum and other relevant learning programmes/strategies
Understanding of principles of child development and learning processes
Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
Ability to relate well to children and adults
Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these
Knowledge of Health and Safety
Ability to plan effective actions for students who require support to progress their learning or who require specific support to facilitate their accessing of learning opportunities.
Have an understanding of the range of support services/providers/agencies.
The ability to communicate at all levels while exercising a high degree of confidentiality is essential.
General skills / attributes
Working with or caring for children of relevant age
2 years experience in working with students
Have worked in all key stages across the school
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