EYFS Class Teacher (Nursery Lead)

Required from: September 2026 (January 2027 considered)
Hours: Part-Time (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)

Salary: Main Pay Scale / Upper Pay Scale + TLR

We are seeking to appoint a passionate, dedicated, and inspirational Early Years Teacher (Nursery Lead) to join our hugely improved school and nursery. This is a fantastic opportunity for a committed practitioner to play a key role in raising standards by inspiring, nurturing, and challenging all children to achieve their full potential.

You will be joining a caring and inclusive setting within a supportive trust that places a strong emphasis on staff wellbeing and high-quality CPD opportunities.

About the Role

The successful candidate will lead our Nursery provision, ensuring high-quality teaching, learning, and care for our youngest children. You will work closely with colleagues, families, and external agencies to provide a rich, stimulating, and nurturing environment where every child can thrive.

The Successful Candidate Will:

• Be a skilled and experienced Early Years practitioner with a passion for teaching and learning.
• Have a strong understanding of child development and believe firmly in the potential of every child.
• Be confident in leading and managing the Nursery team, driving high expectations and best practice.
• Demonstrate empathy, patience, and understanding, adopting an attachment and relationship-based approach to behaviour, with awareness of how ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) impact learning and development.
• Be proactive, flexible, and willing to take initiative.
• Be hardworking, reflective, creative, and energetic in their approach to teaching.
• Have excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills, able to build positive relationships with pupils, staff, and families.
• Uphold and model our ‘adult consistencies’ and school values at all times.

Potential candidates are warmly welcome to meet the Senior Leadership Team to learn more about this exciting role and the opportunities that it brings by visiting our school. Come and see our happy atmosphere and creativity in action - we are immensely proud of our thriving learning environment and superb children!

To arrange a visit, please contact Rostislava Moales (HR Administrator) on 01536 204765 or email rmoales@exeterschool.co.uk.

Our children and young people come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our colleagues. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our vision of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.

Inspiring Futures through Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are expected to share this commitment, to follow IFtL’s safeguarding policies and procedures, and to behave appropriately towards children at all times, both in work and in their personal lives.

All school-based posts are defined as Regulated Activity and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Criminal Records Bureau check

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