Early Years Practitioner

ROLE SUMMARY:

Fulham Pre-Prep is a prestigious preparatory school offering an outstanding early years education for children aged 2–7. The school’s private Early Years programme provides a nurturing and inviting environment, with a holistic, personalised approach to learning that supports each child’s individual needs and development. With a strong focus on providing an excellent educational foundation, Fulham Pre-Prep encourages children to develop their confidence, curiosity and love of learning.

We are seeking a caring, enthusiastic, and proactive Early Years Practitioner to join our team, supporting teaching and learning. The successful candidate will work closely with class teachers to create a safe, engaging, and positive learning environment that promotes curiosity, independence, and wellbeing.

This is a supportive role that involves working as part of the school team to provide a safe, High quality early years environment for young children. This role will be working under the direction of the Head and to give support to the teaching team within the nursery school, supporting the existing teaching team with routines and organisational matters and monitoring children’s safety through appropriate levels of supervision.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To be a highly motivated early years’ practitioner role, modelling excellent practice to children as identified in the Early Years Inspection Handbook.
• To be mindful of current Early Years initiatives and legislation and ensure that this informs your practice.
• To have consistently high expectations of what children can achieve and support their learning.
• To have a secure understanding of child development of the age group they are working with and have relevant subject knowledge that is detailed and communicated to the children.
• To gather assessment information looking at what children already know, understand, and can do and share this with parents or other professionals.
• To use assessment information to plan appropriate teaching and learning strategies that identify able or talented children or children who are falling behind in their learning and need additional support, enabling children to make good progress.
• To support children, understand how to develop as a result of regular interaction and encouragement from staff, and support parents understand how their children should progress and how they can contribute to this.
• To develop strong working relationships with parents by providing information that helps them to understand how children can progress.
• To be a reflective practitioner using evaluative tools to monitor and improve practice.
• To write accurate reports and document on children’s developmental progress using the Early Years Outcomes document and other relevant documents.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• Hold a Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education and have strong previous experience of working with young children, particularly 2–5-year-olds.
• Experience of working with children and families, identifying support for developing children’ learning
• Experience of working as part of a team.
• Experience of teaching and delivering planned learning experiences
• A good knowledge and understanding of the EYFS, Ofsted Education Inspection Framework and relevant current legislation.
• A good understanding of the developmental needs of young children, particularly 2- to 5-year-olds
• A good understanding of what constitutes a quality early education environment.
• Good observational and assessment skills and the experience of maintaining accurate learning records for children.
• Ability to communicate effectively with parents and colleagues.

SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT:

Inspired Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practices and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

SCHOOL APPLICATION FORM:

Please download and complete our Inspired Application Form and submit alongside your CV.

​Inspired UK Application Form (Teaching).docx