Job Ref No. ECC2900-216S Position Type: Teaching/Child Support Pay Range: Scale 2
Position Start Date: Immediate Contract Type: Part-time Contract Term: Permanent
Application Close: 06/10/2026 Midday Date of Interviews: TBA  

Job Description

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Templars Academy are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, reliable and motivated individual to join our friendly team supervising Nursery children through their lunch break.

This position is for 5 hours per week, the working pattern will be 11.30am - 12.30pm, Monday-Friday, term time only.

Starting Salary: Scale 2, point 42, £2,933 per annum.

To be considered for this role candidates ideally should be qualified to Level 2 or 3 in Early Years and Childcare

Duties include:

  • Provide supervision and support during lunchtime
  • Provide intimate care where required.
  • Provide basic medical care where necessary (training will be provided)
  • Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our children

You must have:

  • a flexible "can-do" approach
  • the ability to communicate with children
  • good organisational skills
  • patience and understanding
  • Previous experience would be an advantage.

We can offer:

  • Positive, well behaved and happy children
  • A supportive, dynamic and caring team
  • Professional development
  • Good links with other local schools within our MAT

Reach, Believe, Achieve

being the best that we can be.

At Templars Academy, we inspire our children toreachfor the stars,believein their potential, andachieveexcellence in all aspects of their lives through an inclusive, high-quality education and a nurturing school community. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where every child thrives, is encouraged to aspire to their highest academic, personal, and social capabilities, and is empowered to be the best they can be - reaching their full potential.

Our dedicated staff work tirelessly to deliver a broad and ambitious curriculum that challenges and inspires, ensuring that all children make excellent progress and develop a lifelong love of learning. Alongside academic success, we place great importance on personal development, nurturing social, emotional, and moral growth so that our children are well-prepared for the opportunities and responsibilities of life beyond school.

We are committed to continuous improvement, guided by our core priorities to enhance teaching quality, strengthen leadership, and foster consistent high expectations in behaviour and learning. Together with families and the wider community, we work to ensure that every child at Templars Academy can thrive and achieve their fullest potential.

Inspires MAT are committed to:

  • Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people;
  • Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of difference backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
  • The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs

and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment.

The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

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Contact Information

Michelle Smith
Cressing Road, Witham
Essex, CM8 2NJ
Telephone: 01376 513477
Email: zoeywarboys@inspiresmat.co.uk

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