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Early Years Educator

Job details
Posting date: 24 July 2025
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 23 August 2025
Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7DT
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 5b638207-3dc4-49d2-906f-1a13cb7dd9e3

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Priory Witham Academy is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Early Years Educator to join a school that makes a genuine difference to its students and supports its staff to achieve their individual goals. We passionately believe there is something special about our Academy – a tangible sense of community and an unwavering commitment to fulfil our motto ‘Believe Together Achieve Together’.

We are seeking to appoint an Early Years Educator who is passionate about working with children from 2-5 years of age. The successful applicant will be familiar with the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and enjoy the opportunity to work in a high-quality environment with an experienced team of Early Years Professionals.

We are committed to developing staff and offer a comprehensive programme of professional development. A minimum Level 2 in Childcare qualification is essential.

What the school offers its staff

The Priory Witham Academy is an ‘all through’ (EYFS – 18) Academy in Lincoln that is central to the community it serves. Our dedicated team of staff are supportive and aspirant and in return benefit from a high trust, high accountability environment where our ‘open door’ policy values and celebrates the inputs of individuals to create our Academy vision.

The Priory Witham Academy is a member of The Priory Federation of Academies Trust, an established and supportive MAT. Our scale allows both flexibility and creativity in terms of career development, with permanent and secondment opportunities across our academies allowing exciting career pathways. We are determined in our mission to improve the life chances of our students and we are equally committed to the wellbeing and development of our staff. All our support staff benefit from annual appraisals, access to CPD opportunities, our Trust Employee Benefits Programme and excellent support from our HR team.

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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