Teaching Assistant

**Worksop College and Ranby House**
Nottinghamshire£19,516 per year

**Job type**:

Full Time, Permanent**Start date**:

15 September 20255 September 2025**Job overview**:The Early Years Teaching Assistant will be responsible for supporting the Nursery Leader to deliver our Early Years Curriculum and is expected to inspire, excite and nurture all children through this crucial stage of their development.This Job Description covers the main duties and responsibilities of the role. The role holder may be asked to carry out other activities commensurate with this Job Description from time to time.LIAISON WITH PARENTS:
To take reasonable steps to maintain cordial relations with members of the parent body, responding to requests for information and assistance.
To attend parent/teacher consultations as organised by the school.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
To take up the opportunity for continuous professional development through self-directed reading, courses and in-service training and maintain a good level of IT skills
To complete the required documentation and seek to fulfil individual targets agreed as part of the appraisal and performance management system.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

To provide the highest levels of pastoral care, supporting children with medical or sanitary needs (with appropriate training)
To implement a child centered, safe and welcoming, ‘Homely Environment’ with the EYFS Centre.
To implement a safe, stimulating and varied programme of play and learning opportunities, ensuring the planning meets the needs of individual children.
To make appropriate educational provision for children with SEND and those who may have EAL needs, with support from the Head of Learning Support.
To assess children’s progress, maintain records and provide written reports to parents/carers in accordance with school policies and schedules.
To carry out administrative duties related to the delivery of all aspects of outstanding teaching, including the use of technology to assist in lesson preparation, teaching and reporting.
To be responsible for the organisation of the inside and outside provision, ensuring resources and equipment available are compliant and appropriate to meet the needs of the children.
To work closely and professionally with colleagues to ensure the daily care, supervision and programmes are efficient and safe.ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

The desire to be an ambassador for the school in everything they achieve.
A confident and effective communicator who will support the team and embrace change.
A good understanding of child development, learning processes and factors that affect how pupils learn.
Ability to resolve problems effectively by being ‘solution focused’.
Excellent levels of organisation and time management.
Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
The ability to relate well with children, their parents and colleagues and to build positive working relationships.
A full and relevant Level 3 EYFS qualification (as a minimum) or equivalentStatutory requirements & equal opportunities
SAFEGUARDING & CHILD PROTECTION
For this post you must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including, but not limited to, reference checks with previous employers, prohibition checks and a criminal record check via the Applicants Disclosure and Barring Service (including Barred List Check).
All offers of employment are conditional upon the satisfactory outcome of child protection screening checks.
DISCLOSURESEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Worksop College is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all our employees and job applicants equally. It is our policy to take all reasonable steps to employ and promote employees on the basis of their abilities and qualifications without regard to age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, marital or civil partnership status, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), sexual orientation, trade union membership, religion or belief.School prospectus
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**Worksop College and Ranby House**
- Cuthbert’s Avenue, Worksop
Nottinghamshire
S80 3AP
United Kingdom
- +44 1909 537100Welcome to **Worksop College and Ranby House**

Worksop College and Ranby House; one community set across two schools - educating children from age two to eighteen. We're proud of being a broad-ability school - with a focus firmly on progress, recognising that every child has their own set of skills and abilities, whether it be academic, sporting, musical or otherwise. We believe that education is about more than the flight towards academic success, but about human flourishing.

We want our students to be the very best version of themselves. If they are destined to attend an established University, here is where they will flourish, or if they are an outstandin