Level 1 Pre-school Assistant

**Salary**:
National Living Wage

**Job type**:
Part Time, Temporary

6 February 2025

**Job overview**:
**Closing date: Thursday 6th February at 12 noon**

**Interviews: Thursday 13th February**

Date posted: 17th January 2025

Contract type: Temporary - with the possibility of becoming permanent depending on numbers.

Working pattern: 30 hours per week, Monday - Friday 08:40 am - 15:10 pm, 38 weeks per year (term time only).

**Salary**: Scale 1, Points 2 - 3, namely £18,308 - £18,596 (FTE £23,656 - £24,027)

Location: Cromwell Academy, Parkway, Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 6JA.

**Pre-School Assistant**:

- Current or recent experience of working in an Early Years provision.
- Understanding of Current EYFS expectations and child development.
- The ability to be patient.
- The ability to work creatively.
- The ability to manage time efficiently.
- An understanding of Safeguarding procedures.
- The ability to promote relationships and behaviour in line with the ethos of the wider school.

Staff Benefits:

- O2 Staff discount
- Free use of on-site leisure facilities including gym and swimming pool
- Free car parking
- Generous employee pension contribution scheme and death in service benefit (LGPS)
- Day one entitlement to contractual sick pay
- CPD access and support
- Employee assistance package (counselling & advice)
- Access to staff discounts from local suppliers
- Automatic service-linked salary increases within pay grade (contracted teaching and support staff)
- Eligibility for Blue Light Card & Costco Individual Membership

(**CV’S will not be accepted**)

**Closing date: Thursday 6th February at 12 noon**

**Interviews: Thursday 13th February**

ACES Academies Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a supportive and inclusive working environment in which all individuals are able to make best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit.

Please be advised as an employer we do not hold a Sponsorship license so are unable to support overseas applicants obtain right to work in the UK.

**About**Cromwell Academy**:
**Cromwell Academy**
- Parkway, Hinchingbrook Park, Huntingdon
- Cambridgeshire
- PE29 6JA
- United Kingdom

+44 1480 437830

The school's stated vision is 'Committed to Achieving' and from the current documentation, some of which is copied below, you will be able to get a flavour of the values and vision within the school at the present time.

Cromwell Academy: Our Aims & Values

At Cromwell Academy we all strive:

- to build strong relationships and work in partnership to develop children who feel comfortable, safe, confident and valued;
- to ensure every child has an equal opportunity to succeed and achieve;
- to develop independent lifelong learners;
- to create memorable experiences for the whole community.

At Cromwell Academy we pride ourselves on working closely with parents/carers, so that our children receive an outstanding education and develop an enthusiasm for life-long learning. Importantly, we believe that all of our children at Cromwell Academy have potential and that it is our goal to unlock it together.

As an Academy, we are given the freedom from following the National Curriculum (except English, Mathematics and Science) and this therefore gives us the unique opportunity to define learning that prepares our remarkable young people for their future.

Central to our vision for learning is to promote a desire in our children to be the best they possibly can be and to prepare them for the future by developing, not only their personal and academic skills, but also a sense of responsibility and respect for themselves and others.

Successful learning depends upon children feeling safe, happy, confident and valued within a stimulating learning environment; they need to experience compassion, humour, understanding and empathy. Children can then build on their talents and use them to enhance learning for others.

We believe that every child has a talent for something and deserves the opportunity to develop it Ambition should be built on dreams and should only be limited by imagination, not by the fear of failure. We want our children to embrace challenges and not shy away from them, to learn from experiences as well as developing a knowledge of facts, so that they are being prepared for adulthood and life, as well as the next stage in their educational journey.

A stimulating and dynamic curriculum is essential to achieving these aims. One that they can embrace, enjoy and in which they can immerse themselves, so that they develop an eagerness for more. This intrinsic motivation and love for learning then leads them to work harder and to achieve.

It is our vision and hope that, as our children move on to the next stage of their education, they have begun to develop their self-awareness, and the skills of self-motivation, self-d