Early Years Practitioner
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- £22,595 - £23,837 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Full-time salary is £ 22,595 - £23,837, actual salary will be pro-rated at 59.46% (Ark band 3)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2023
Job overview
Location: Marylebone, London
Salary: Full-time is £22,595 - £23,837, actual salary will be pro-rated at 59.46% for part-time (Ark band 3)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time or Part-time
Closing date: Friday 6th January 2023 at 3pm
A unique opportunity to be part of an outstanding academy and be part of an exciting new team in a new nursery setting.
About the role:
We seek an Early Years Practitioner in the Nursery setting, bringing expertise and experience working with young children to provide excellent support and teaching to our pupils. We want to invest in a member of staff for the long term, and support in their development and impact as they work within our new nursery provision.
In this role, you will be a key person in managing the experience of pupils and their parents. You will have a welcoming and warm manner and build confidence in our families. There is the opportunity to work with 2-3 year olds or 3-4 year olds.
We have a great team in Early Years and are looking for an Early Years Practitioner who is passionate about helping children love learning and playing in a warm and inclusive environment. We are proud of our woodland garden and are building a Forest School provision.
If you are an outstanding individual who has the relentless drive, boundless enthusiasm and the resilience for a challenging but rewarding new opportunity, then we’d love to hear from you.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of working effectively in a high-quality nursery setting, ideally including 2 year old provision
- Must have relevant Early Years Qualification, Level 3 or above
- Excellent initiative, problem solving and organisational skills
- A genuine passion for education and making a difference to the lives of children
- Drive and motivation with a ‘make it happen’ attitude
- Kind and clear communication with families and staff
- Commitment to KSA’s ethos of high expectations
View the full job description and person specification here.
About our school:
King Solomon Academy is rare in that it is a genuine all-through school – our pupils can go from 2 years to university in our school. We have a brand-new nursery building for over 100 2-4 year olds which opened in April 2021.
We hire on values. This means that our teams are made up of like-minded people who share real passion for our mission. We are an inclusive team and we are actively seeking to enhance the diversity of our team. We welcome team members from all backgrounds. We look after our staff with enhanced benefits and ongoing professional and personal development. We’re a school nursery setting which is serving our local community with ambition and passion.
What we can offer you:
- 13 weeks of holiday (including bank holidays; outside of school term)
- Extensive personal development, including being part of the Ark Professional Development community
- Funding and paid time off for training
- Access to the secure Local Government Pension Scheme with significant employer contributions
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay for new parents
- Generous sick pay, leave for dependents and compassionate leave
- Childcare discount for paid places at nursery / priority criteria for children into King Solomon Academy
How to apply:
To apply, and to see more information about the school and this role please visit: http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies.
To discuss the role, please feel free to email the Principal’s PA, Shaheen Riaz (s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org) or phone on 0207 563 6901.
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About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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