St Peter's School York - Teaching Assistant -EYFS

Summary

St Peter’s Junior School is seeking to appoint an outstanding Teaching Assistant to work within our Pre-School setting. You will have a strong ethos and passion for Early Years education, as well as a commitment to continuous improvement of your own practice.

Detail

Key Responsibilities:

To assist in providing high quality, child-centred care and education

To participate in planning to provide a range of activities designed to meet the individual and communal needs and interests of the children

To assist with the planning and the delivery of a play-based curriculum that responds to the children’s interests, needs and development

To supervise and encourage positive, safe behaviour for children

To build positive relationships with children by acting as a role model and providing a warm, caring environment

To conduct regular observations on children and assist in completing developmental records.

To enhance the nurseries continuous provision to help create a stimulating, enabling and exciting learning environment

To assist children with personal, social hygiene and care

To identify and report concerns about children’s development and progress

To promote and engage in effective, positive communication with children, colleagues, staff and parents

To participate in regular staff meetings/events and training

To adhere to the Nursery’s Policies and Procedures

To maintain and complete nursery paperwork (medicine checks, accident forms etc)

To assist in wrap-around school provision and lunch time duties.

General

1. Health & Safety - You have a legal duty to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of others and you are expected to be familiar with, and adhere to, St Peter’s School’s Health and Safety policy.

2. School values – You have a duty to ensure your work, communication and approach conforms to the school’s core values and mission. You will need to be aware and comply with school rules, policies and procedures at all times including, but not limited to, those relating to safeguarding, conduct, equality and data protection.

St Peter's School strives to be diverse and inclusive. We encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the school. The school is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and pupils. This means that employees are treated fairly, irrespective of sexual orientation, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, gender, marital status or other reason. The post holder is expected to always comply with the provisions set out in law and the St Peter's policies on equality and diversity.

The school is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Note: This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities associated with the post. The post holder will be expected to comply with any reasonable request to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.

This job description may be amended at any time.

Documents

• Teaching Assistant - EYFS - Jun 26 - Recruitment Pack PDF Document
• Privacy Notice for Job Applicants - May 2026 PDF Document