• EYFS
  • Primary
  • Loughborough
  • £90 a day
  • Applications have closed
  • Job Area: Loughborough

Website Zest Education

EYFS Teaching Assistant

Job Description

Are you an enthusiastic, nurturing individual who loves helping young children thrive during their earliest years of education?

Zest Education is excited to be working with a warm and welcoming primary school in Loughborough that is looking to appoint a full-time Early Years Teaching Assistant. This role begins immediately and runs Monday to Friday, 8:00am–3:00pm, with a strong possibility of becoming permanent in September.

Your Role in the Classroom:

  • Supporting the class teacher in creating a fun, interactive, and engaging learning environment

  • Helping children settle into school routines and develop key early learning skills

  • Working one-to-one or in small groups to boost learning and confidence

  • Encouraging positive behaviour, social development, and emotional wellbeing

  • Assisting with daily routines, from play-based learning to snack time and story sessions

What We’re Looking For:

  • Experience in an EYFS setting (nursery or school-based) is highly desirable

  • A warm, approachable personality and genuine passion for early years education

  • Level 2 or 3 Teaching Assistant or Early Years qualification preferred

  • Ability to build strong, trusting relationships with children, parents, and staff

  • A current DBS on the Update Service, or willing to obtain one through Zest Education

If you are interested in this position or want to find out more, email MIA at mia@zesteducation.co.uk or ‘apply for job’ at the top of the page to submit your details.

Zest Education are an APSCo audited agency and are dedicated to safeguarding children. All candidates must hold an enhanced DBS (or allow us to process one for you) and be registered to the DBS Update Service, be able to provide references to cover the last two years and successfully pass all other necessary safeguarding checks prior to clearance for work.

Salary is dependent on experience, training, or qualifications. The minimum experience, training, or qualifications required for this position are recent school-based experience (within the last 5 years within a school that teaches the British Curriculum) and/or care-based experience within the last 5 years.

The role advertised is for temporary supply work.

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Job Details

  • EYFS
  • Primary
  • Loughborough
  • £90 a day
  • Applications have closed
  • Job Area: Loughborough

Website Zest Education

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