Nursery Teacher - Full-time

Featherby Infant School, Gillingham

• Ref:MED887-2401-147T
• Posted:16/05/2025
• Pay:MPS 1-6/ UPS 1-3
• Start Date:30 August 2025
• App Close Date:06/06/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Nurture, Inspire, Flourish – Join Featherby as Our New Nursery Teacher

Featherby Infant and Nursery School, part of the Featherby Partnership within the Maritime Academy Trust, is seeking an enthusiastic, nurturing, and creative Nursery Teacher to join our dedicated early years team from August 2025.

This is a wonderful opportunity to shape young minds during their most formative years, in a setting where children are valued, staff are supported, and innovation is encouraged.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver a vibrant, play-based EYFS curriculum that inspires a lifelong love of learning.
• Create a safe, stimulating, and inclusive environment where every child feels seen, heard, and supported.
• Use your knowledge of early development to plan meaningful, responsive learning experiences.
• Work closely with parents, carers, and the wider team to build strong partnerships that enhance children’s progress.
• Embrace our school's values and contribute to a collaborative and forward-thinking culture.
  
  

Who We’re Looking For

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and or working towards this..
• Have a solid understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage framework and child development.
• Are caring, imaginative, and highly motivated, with a passion for working with young children.
• Value play and exploration as powerful tools for learning.
• Are ready to be part of a supportive team that puts children — and staff — at the heart of everything we do.
  

What We Offer

• A positive, friendly and welcoming working environment
• A nurturing school community that believes in the potential of every child and adult
• Opportunities to work across Infant, Junior and Nursery phases, offering variety and progression
• Access to high-quality CPD through the Maritime Academy Trust
• National terms and conditions, Local Government Pension Scheme
• Wellbeing support, financial advice, and early salary access through Wagestream
  
  

Come and see the Featherby difference for yourself! We would love to show you around our school and share what makes it such a special place to work and learn.  To arrange a visit, simply contact the school office on 01634 231984—we’d be delighted to meet you.

You’ll find all the details about the role, school, and trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached. Applications must be submitted online via the My New Term website before the deadline. Please note that we may interview and appoint candidates as applications are received, so don’t delay—apply today!

We are part of the Maritime Multi-Academy Trust, a forward-thinking group of schools in Greenwich, Kent & Medway. Together, we embrace collaboration and innovation, delivering a curriculum that equips children with essential life skills.

Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, he better our work will be. Maritime Academy Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks. In line with safeguarding guidance, we may carry out online checks on shortlisted candidates. Further information about the Trust is available at www.Maritimeacademytrust.org and the school at https://www.featherby-jun.medway.sch.uk/

Information about the school

We achieve our vision through a commitment to working in partnership across the Featherby schools, collaboration across Maritime and engagement with other agencies and parents.

We believe that no matter what a child’s starting point may be, they have the potential to achieve and succeed. We achieve this through our curriculum, approach to learning and through developing best practice through partnership. Our thematic curriculum develops children’s skills and knowledge to ensure we equip them for the challenges of life; ensuring they leave us ready for the next stage of their educational journey as 21st Century learners and citizens. Our approach to learning is centred around cognitive science and developing webs of knowledge.

We believe in encouraging independent and resilient learners who have the ability to work collaboratively, embracing known pedagogy, whilst developing new models for learning using the latest technologies and approaches. We actively equip our children with cognitive strategies and functional skills which are proven to support knowledge retention and to develop our children’s webs of knowledge. Our children will take ownership of metacognition adopting the best strategies for them. This will support self-regulation - they will choose the strategies which work for them.

Skills will remain with us forever ensuring we are confident, curious, and resilient learners – proud of who we are and optimistic about what we will achieve, holding high aspirations of ourselves. Ensuring we are ready for the next stage of learning and the 21st Century.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Maritime Academy Trust
• Address:50 John Harrison Way, Greenwich, London, SE10 0BG
• Telephone: 020 8858 0394
• Email: recruitment@maritimeacademytrust.org

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Application Pack