Early Years Teaching Assistant Full Time


Company:	Teaching Vacancies
Salary:	Not specified
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, SE4 2QQ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	24 Jul 2026
Closing date:	23 Aug 2026

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Your chance to join our wonderful Early Years team at Chelwood Nursery School.

Our wonderful, multi-cultural inner-city school is seeking motivated applicants for one Early Years Teaching Assistant posts to work as a core member of one of our class teams and to support over our busy lunchtimes.

Are you:

• committed to providing high quality, inclusive Early Years Education?

• dedicated to promoting children’s learning through play?

• interested in working with children with SEND?

• keen to work flexibly in a team to meet children’s wide-ranging needs?

• motivated to develop professionally?

Contract:

This post is a permanent post. This will be an annualised contract working 35 hours per week 39 weeks per year.

What the school offers its staff

We are a very welcoming and supportive staff team.

We subscribe to an employee assistance programme which offers, free confidential advice and support.

Further details about the role

Do you like:

• playing outdoors

• getting messy and muddy

• building dens

• sharing stories

• digging in the sand

• generally having fun interacting with children aged 2-4

then Chelwood is the place for you!

At Chelwood we believe that children come first. We are at the heart of our local community, offering outstanding early years education with a focus on the outdoors. We are looking for an enthusiastic and well organised person

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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