- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003427
- Job Title
- Level 3 Teaching Assistant
- Job Start Date
- 1 September 2025
- Salary Range
- £26,409 to £32,654 pro rata Subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
- Hours Per Week
- 34.5
- Working Pattern
- Term time only
- School Address
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Newtown Nursery School
Hockley Close
Birmingham
B19 2NS
Telephone number: 0121 675 4617 - Contact Email
- s.carter@hifieldn.bham.sch.uk
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 2 May 2025, midday
- Job Information
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Newtown Nursery School provides high quality early education to children aged two to four years of age. The school plans to expand its age range from September 2025 to include children from 9 months of age. We are looking for a practitioner with suitable experience of working with children aged under two to join our team. Not only do you need to be a good or outstanding practitioner but also flexible, resilient and able to contribute innovative ideas.
Newtown Nursery School is an outstanding school (March 2024). The school is highly inclusive where everyone is valued. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are very well supported. Staff are very skilled at delivering an exciting curriculum because of the excellent training they receive. Staff morale is high. There is an unmistakable sense of collaboration and teamwork.
Birmingham Federation of Maintained Nursery Schools consists of nine Nursery Schools delivering inclusive high-quality early education and care to children aged 0-5 across Birmingham. We have a vibrant and enthusiastic staff of teachers, teaching assistants, nursery officers, play workers, administrators and other support staff who make up our large staff team. As well as outstanding provision for children and families we are committed to staff professional development and you would have opportunities to be part of the wider and developing role of our nursery schools. Our settings are culturally diverse with a large number of languages spoken. We have a reputation for supporting children with a range of complex Special Educational Needs and disabilities as well as support for families who may have additional challenges in their lives. We offer a mixture of provision, including fee paying, as well as before and after School provision in most schools.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children, and expect our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. - This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
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How to apply
Visits to the school are most welcome. Please email s.carter@hifieldn.bham.sch.uk for an application pack.
- Safeguarding
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
- enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
- References
- All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
- Short-listed candidates
- An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
- Terms and Conditions
- BCC is a Living Wage employer.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
- Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
- Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.