Early Years Practitioner

The role

We require an early years practitioner to help us deliver a safe, secure, caring and supportive environment, providing opportunities to foster their growth and development within our Early Years’ department. 

All Alpha Plus schools benefit from being well resourced, with up to date technology and a modern learning environment, lunch is provided on site and we offer a generous occupational pension, training and development opportunities an employee assistance programme and a supportive and caring environment to work.  

This role is full time (40 hours per week) covering 44 weeks of the year, which includes working outside of term time. You will be entitled to 5.6 weeks holidays per year, pro-rated, to reflect your 44 week year, and to be taken outside of the 44 working weeks.   

The School

Falcons School for Girls provides independent education from three to eleven years. The school offers a traditional nursery – year 6 girls’ school education, with outstanding preparation for 11 + examinations.

It is a warm and caring school, taking great pride in developing our girls into happy, confident individuals ready to meet the challenges of their senior schools. Falcons Girls have a reputation for academic excellence, creativity and a love of learning. They have high expectations of our pupils with learning tailored to individual needs. The pupils win places at the country’s top Day and Boarding schools in the 11+ examinations at the end of Year Six, and leave Falcons School for Girls as resourceful, self-aware and inquisitive girls.

The Alpha Plus Group

The Alpha Plus Group seeks to deliver the gold standard in education. Although we encourage every one of our schools to have its own distinctive ethos, the group also has common aims and values. We want to see strong leadership in each of our schools and we provide training and support to the Heads and their Senior Management Team in order for this to happen. We want to see effective partnerships with parents. We want all our staff to place the welfare of the child at the heart of everything they do. The aim of the Group is to give every child in our care the best possible start in life. 

The Alpha Plus Group currently consists of 20 schools and colleges. There are three standalone nursery schools, 12 pre-preparatory and preparatory schools and 5 secondary schools and colleges in the Group. APG is the largest private educational company in London (15 schools in the capital) and we also have schools and colleges in Cambridge, Manchester, Coventry and Tonbridge. Internationally APG has recently opened a school in New York (Wetherbys-Pembridge School) and, with our partners in China, will soon open nursery schools in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

How to Apply: Please apply on our web site and please demonstrate how you can meet what is required in the person specification. 

Falcons School for Girls is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and as an employee of APG you are expected to share this commitment.  The protection of our students’ welfare is the responsibility of all staff within APG Schools and individuals are expected to conduct themselves in a way that reflects the principles of our organisation.