Early Years Practitioner - Swindon, United Kingdom - United Learning

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Job title:
Early Years Practitioner

Contract type:
Fixed Term Contract till

School:
Swindon Academy, Beech Avenue

Start date:
January 2024

Working hours: 33.75 hours a week, Monday-Friday, term time only

Salary:
£17,793 per annum

Swindon Academy are looking for an ambitious and hard-working individual to join a busy team.

The purpose of the role is to work under the guidance of the Room Lead to support teaching and learning in the classroom.

You will also provide general support to the Room Lead in the management and organisation of the pupils and the classroom and assist the Room Lead in creating and maintaining a safe, purposeful, orderly and supportive learning environment.

At Swindon Academy
We take a 'balanced' teaching approach in our Nursery, blending adult instruction with play-based, child-led, relational approaches.

We believe that incorporating adult-scaffolded learning objectives can effectively support all areas of learning and enables our children to make good progress.

Our planning and teaching includes extensive support for communication and language development. Our practitioners provide clear support for extending children's oral language, vocabulary, oral comprehension, and sentence repetition.

We ensure that role play, and small group times offer deliver sustained conversation and language development and offer opportunities to hear and practise language.

We make sure that our children experience diverse vocabularies within a language-rich environment and plenty of opportunity for songs and nursery rhymes.

The main duties will involve:

- deliver planned learning opportunities designed to meet the emotional, physical and learning needs of individual children and groups of children, including those with Special Needs
- work with key children to progress in the next stage of their learning, as directed by Room Lead
- supporting Room Lead in monitoring and assessing the children's responses to learning activities in all areas of Early Years Outcomes
- develop and maintain effective relationships with pupils and ensure key children achieve their learning targets
- attend to the physical needs of young children, e.g. first aid, changing clothes, toilet training
- support the Room Lead in providing a high quality, creative early years environment, including creating a variety of displays and ensuring there are adequate supplies of learning materials
- support Room Lead in preparation, setting up and clearing away of activities
- under the direction of the Room Lead, assess and record the achievements and progress of pupils through Target Tracker
- establish and maintain constructive relationships with parents/carers by:

supporting their role in pupils' learning

- providing constructive feedback on pupils' progress and achievements
- facilitating their support for their child's attendance
- supporting home to school/community links
- ensure Behaviour Policy is adhered to and communicate concerns to Room Lead

Early Years Level 2 Educator qualifications

- excellent communication skills and be able to build good relationships with young people and adults
- an ability to deal with students and staff so that they feel they have been dealt with consistently and fairly
- the ability to show initiative whilst knowing when to take advice
- good judgement over matters of confidentiality and integrity in dealing with sensitive information about students
- strong IT skills with the ability to positively respond to training in the use of school IT packages

Other requirements:

- sound literacy and numeracy, GCSE in English and Maths at Grade C or above
- some previous experience of working with young people is desirable
- some understanding of how students learn or teaching experience is desirable

_ For more information or to visit the school, please contact Charlotte Beckhurst - Primary Headteacher on._

_ Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early in light of a large response._

At Swindon Academy, we pride ourselves on a team of staff who are supportive, friendly and dedicated to providing the very best teaching and learning for our students.

Staff across the academy set a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement for students which, in turn, is reflected in the emphasis we place on continuing professional development (CPD) for our staff.

We have made significant, sustained progress at GCSE and are proud to be the top performing school in Swindon for progress over the last six years.

Swindon Academy was the first all-though academy to open in the UK and has over 1,900 pupils from the age of 2 to 19.

The school is situated in purpose-built £25 million premises, benefiting from excellent, state-of-the-art facilities and situated within the beautiful county of Wiltshire, within commuting distance for Bristol, Bath and Oxford.

After a visit from Ofsted in May 2017, the academy received a