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Nursery Nurse - Full-time

Molehill Primary Academy, Maidstone

  • Ref:KCC886-2007-90S
  • Posted:14/06/2021
  • Pay:Actual salary of £14,506 per annum (FTE £17,190)
  • Start Date:Late August 2021
  • App Close Date:30/06/2021 at 23:45
  • Interviews:TBC

Advert

About the role: We have an exciting opportunity for a Nursery Nurse to join the team from late August 2021. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Nursery Nurse to assist in the provision of the Nursery, ensuring the best possible environment, the highest standards, and exceptional care are provided for children. We are looking for an excellent practitioner who will be expected to provide high quality, flexible childcare for families.

This is a permanent role offering an actual salary of £14,506 (FTE £17,190) based on 37 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week of inset.

 

We are looking for someone demonstrates the following:

  • A minimum of a relevant NVQ Level 3
  • Previous, recent experience in a similar setting
  • Proven success in a school Nursery
  • Being independent and able to work under pressure
  • Excellent communicator at all levels
  • Ability to organise own work, identify priorities and meet outcomes, under the direction of the leadership team
  • Lead by example, demonstrating high levels of drive, enthusiasm and passion with proven ability to motivate others
  • Excellent written communication with ability to contribute to relevant documents and assessments
  • Up to date knowledge of the current EYFS framework and other relevant regulations
  • Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding children

In return we can offer you:

  • The opportunity to help shape our future by joining a LAT Academy
  • A school community committed to raising achievement and attainment
  • A strong commitment to support professional development opportunities
  • A supportive Governing Body and Leadership Team

Information about the school

Working at Molehill Primary Academy: At Molehill Primary Academy we have created a culture that enables both pupils and staff to thrive and achieve their very best. The Academy was opened in 1954 to serve the southern part of the Shepway Estate and the roads leading to it. It caters for boys and girls from the age of three to eleven years. It stands on beautiful grounds which we have specifically developed to aid curriculum studies.

Relationships between staff at all levels, and the children, are highly positive and this creates a warm and vibrant atmosphere in lessons and during social times. With the support and guidance of leaders, teachers provide well-organised, calm and purposeful classrooms in which children can enjoy their learning challenges. The positive and caring ethos at Molehill is combined with a clear, relentless focus and an ambition that all pupils can and will achieve well, regardless of their different starting points. Teachers have embedded a culture of high expectations; we will all do whatever it takes to create better life opportunities for our pupils, they deserve the very best. We help support and develop one another in an open and supportive environment. This extends across the Trust, allowing us to work with other academies, either within the cluster or further afield, whilst still maintaining our own personality and driving our own priorities.

To enhance our curriculum delivery, we are an academy for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP), an IB World School. This is an inquiry led framework that develops independent learners and posits personal success as essential for academic achievement, and learners who continue to thrive. We employ conferencing, high quality learning conversions and scaffolding with no written feedback, as our evaluation and feedback approach.

Vision and values: - Don’t Give Up – Perseverance | Diversity & Achieving against the odds | Aim High - Concentrate – Managing my Distractions | Listening, not just hearing | Working Hard - Question – Questioning/Inquisitive |Teamwork/Reciprocity | Imagine, Create and Innovate - Improve – Reflecting/Revising | Never Give Up (knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do!) | Be Your Best - Understand Myself – Independence/Interdependence | Community | Challenge Yourself & Try New Things - Understand my actions and the actions of others – Responsibility | Empathy | ‘I Can Do’ Attitude

Here's what Ofsted said:

“Leaders have worked with unrelenting determination and clear focus to drive up achievement and create a can-do culture across the school. This has united staff and inspired pupils so that the school continues to go from strength to strength.”

“A strong sense of community unites the school in working towards the school vision – ‘fostering a lifelong love of learning’.”

Here's what Challenge Partners said:

“Relationships between pupils and staff are strong and contribute to pupils' excellent attitude and behaviour”

“Pupils enjoy learning”

“Pupils are encouraged to develop and share their ideas. They are highly reflective about their strengths and aware of their next steps.”

Molehill Primary Academy was recently awarded with Artsmark Gold and the International School Award - Intermediate Level.

'The sense of pride that we each feel here at Molehill is strengthened by our commitment to placing our pupils at the centre of their learning. Teachers have embedded a culture of high expectations; we will all do whatever it takes to create better life opportunities for our children who deserve the very best. We care about our pupils and the communities we serve, and driven by our strong moral purpose we work together to achieve excellence for all, creating confident, resilient children.' - Principal Laura Smith

Job Contact Information

  • Name:Laura Smith
  • Address:Hereford Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 7ND
  • Telephone: 01622 751 729
  • Email: talent@latrust.org.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.