Early Years Practitioner

• Early Years Practitioner
• Full-time - term time only
• Primary School
• 2 form entry
• Academic year contract (Sept 2025 – July 2026)

A small primary school in Waltham Forest are looking for an experienced Early Years Practitioner to join their school on a full-time basis from September.

The role

The school are looking for a dedicated Early Years Educator with enthusiasm and experience to work in their reception class on a full-time basis. Within your role you will be supporting with carpet sessions, setting up play based learning and activities. There will be a particular focus on phonics and in this role you will be required to lead small group phonics and reading sessions within reception. You will also be supporting the teacher in all classroom learning. Your role will involve some focused support for pupils with SEN.

The school

This small, friendly primary school welcomes pupils and families from a variety of different backgrounds and cultures. The leadership team and staff have created a fun friendly and exciting place to learn with an enriched curriculum. Pupils are effectively supported to make progress academically as well as personally and socially. The school is deemed 'good' by Ofsted and there is good CPD available. The school is accessible by car with good local bus links.

We have a policy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Philosophy Education is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.