Are you a passionate and engaging early years practitioner?

If you really want to make a difference, then this opportunity may be for you!  

Garden City Academy is currently recruiting to the role of EYFS Practitioner.

Duties include:

• To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children place in the setting.
• To give support to their staff within the setting.
• To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.
• To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met.

Our aim is to ensure that every member of the school community feels included, valued and respected, and that each person is treated fairly and well. We are a caring community school, whose values are built on mutual trust and respect for all. We have high expectations of all our pupils and support each child to realise their full potential and be the best they can be.

Like most REAch2 schools, Garden City Academy serves a socio-economically deprived area. This means that we have to work extra hard to provide the life chances that every child deserves. This is a task that we do not shy away from but embrace it! To aid us, and our staff, in fulfilling this aim, we have robust processes and procedures in place and train and support our teaching staff accordingly. Garden City Academy is truly a school where an individual can make a difference!

We need:

An Early Years Practitioner to work with colleagues in the Nursery/Reception classes and create a stimulating, safe and caring teaching and learning environment. We are looking for an individual who is able promote the physical, emotional, intellectual and social development of every child within the Foundation Stage.

So, if you are:

• an excellent practitioner, keen to work in a supportive and principle-based school.
• driven by a strong moral purpose to enable all children to achieve and have integrity.
• passionate about creativity and have an excellent sense of humour.
• warm in character, easy to work with and committed to teamwork, recognising that more can be achieved together than is possible as individuals.
• a professional who values wellbeing but unafraid of hard work.
• calm and able to handle pressure and setbacks with a smile.
• keen to be challenged to become the best you can be.
• able to be pushed at an accelerated rate of development, and reflective and proactive enough to make it happen.
• determined to succeed with a ‘find a way or make one!’ attitude.
• committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment.

Then you’d love to work at Garden City Academy and for REAch2. This is not just another job. This is a chance to be part of something exciting and very worthwhile. This opportunity will open doors both professionally and personally to anyone who joins our quest.

We can offer you:

• A Leadership Team dedicated to helping you develop an outstanding career and balanced life.
• A supportive school that will provide you with the tools that you need to succeed.
• Exciting, leadership development and early promotion opportunities for the right candidates across the Trust.
• The chance to work with a fantastic team, with the best possible opportunities to share ideas, planning, assessment etc.
• Opportunity to work alongside outstanding teachers, to observe and share practice on a regular basis, developing pedagogy through reflectivity.
• The chance to use / develop personal curriculum strength
• An excellent CPD training programme.
• A dynamic, creative staff, dedicated to achieving whole-school improvement and building lifelong friendships
• The chance to make a real difference

Background Information about the School

At Garden City Academy our primary aim is to ensure that every member of the school community feels included, valued and respected, and that each person is treated fairly and well. We are a caring community, whose values are built on mutual trust and respect for all. We have high expectations of all our pupils and support each child to fulfill their full potential and be the best they can be. Our school motto is ‘Believe and Achieve’, something which is embedded in our everyday ethos.

At our school we firmly believe in the importance of forming relationships between parents, carers and the school.  To achieve the best results it is vital that there is close co-operation and communications between home and school.

We are a caring employer who invests in the future of our employees, as only through their excellence can we deliver excellence for the children and families whom we serve. To see more information about the school, please visit our website Garden City Academy

As a member of the REAch2 Trust, a national family of primary academies, Garden City Academy is committed to raising standards and achieving excellent for all pupils whatever their background or circumstance. The Trust provides a strong culture of collaboration and support, together with high expectations for staff and pupils alike. Garden City Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people / vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory written references.