EYFS Reception Teacher

Salary Grade Range: Cornerstone Teaching Pay Scale – 1 TO 11

• Assume overall responsibility for raising the quality of early years provision, including physical, emotional, social and intellectual education and care for children in the setting. Always promoting excellent practice.
• Fulfil the professional responsibilities of a teacher, as outlined below and in conjunction with the Trust’s staff policies.
• Meet the expectations set out in the Teachers’ Standards.

• Ensure that all practitioners understand the principles and content of the Early Years Foundation Stage and know how to put them into practice.
• Support other practitioners in acknowledging the various influences and transitions experienced by a child from both inside and outside the setting.
• Practice and promote current legal requirements, national policies and guidance on health and safety, safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children.
• Be accountable for the delivery of high-quality provision within the setting.
• Encourage other practitioners to have high expectations of all children and to demonstrate commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full potential.
• Establish and sustain a safe, welcoming, purposeful, stimulating and encouraging environment where children feel confident and secure and are able to develop and learn.
• Promote the use of informed observation and other strategies to monitor children’s activity, development and progress systematically and carefully, and use this information to inform, plan and improve practice and provision.
• Plan and provide safe, appropriate, child‑led and adult‑initiated experiences, activities and play opportunities in indoor, outdoor and in‑out‑of‑setting contexts, enabling children to develop and learn.
• Select, prepare and use a range of resources suitable for children’s ages, interests and abilities, taking account of diversity and promoting equality and inclusion.
• Actively support the development of children’s language and communication skills.
• Promote positive behaviour, self‑control and independence through effective behaviour management strategies and developing children’s social, emotional and behavioural skills.
• Promote children’s rights, equality, inclusion and anti‑discriminatory practice in all aspects of the setting.
• Establish and maintain a safe environment and employ practices that promote children’s health, safety and physical, mental and emotional well‑being.
• Encourage all practitioners to recognise when a child is in danger or at risk of harm and know how to act to protect them.
• Support the process of effective assessment, recording and reporting on progress in children’s development and learning and use this as a basis for differentiating provision.
• Encourage all practitioners to talk to children, giving constructive and sensitive feedback to help children understand what they have achieved and think about what they need to do next.
• Introduce or maintain a positive and proactive culture amongst practitioners in identifying and supporting children whose progress, development or well‑being is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances, ensuring staff know when to refer them to colleagues for specialist support.
• Ensure that all practitioners establish fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with children, communicating sensitively and effectively with children from birth to the end of the foundation stage.
• Encourage a culture of listening to children, paying attention to what they say and valuing and respecting their views.
• Ensure all staff demonstrate the positive values, attitudes and behaviour which the setting expects from the children.

• Use IT tools fully to provide effective and high-quality education, deploying the latest approaches for early years settings.
• Carry out mealtime, playground and other duties as directed.
• Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the school’s policies, practices, and procedures, to support the school’s values and vision.
• Make a positive contribution to the wider life…