Excellent Pay & Benefits
- £95 – £108.56 Pay Per Day
- Flexible, Part-time, Full-time & Long-Term
- South East: Central Oxford, Oxfordshire, Swindon, Berkshire.
- UK Applicants ONLY – sponsorship is not available
Inspiring Young Minds Across the Full Foundation Stage
Are you passionate about early childhood education? Do you believe in sparking curiosity, imagination, and a lifelong love of learning from a child’s very first steps into education? If you are ready to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, we invite you to join our vibrant school community as an Early Years Supply Teaching Assistant.
We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic Early Years Supply Teaching Assistants to work with our wonderful family of schools. You will support pupils from age 2 – working in an engaging environment and supporting additional SEN requirements, including children with profound non-verbal learning needs.
We need Nursery and Early Years Teaching Assistants who:
- Have Nursery or Early Years experience or relevant qualifications
- Can demonstrate understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework and its practical application
- Is passionate about early years education and recognises the transformative power of high-quality teaching in the early stages of life.
- Has proven experience supporting children in Nursery and/or Reception classes.
- Exhibits excellent communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with children, parents, and colleagues.
- Is nurturing, patient, and enthusiastic, bringing energy and inspiration to the environment.
- Is adaptable and resilient, ready to meet the joyful unpredictability of life with young learners.
Working for Schools Mutual Services, you get:
- The best rates of pay, rewarding you fairly for your qualifications and experience
- PAYE Contracts & weekly pay – putting you in control by taking out unnecessary costs, giving you the highest pay and keeping costs low for schools
- 20% enhanced pension – providing for your future
- Extensive health & wellbeing programme – putting your wellbeing first
- CPD & Training Opportunities – to keep you up to date
- Dedicated & skilled professionals around you – helping to get you the best roles and supporting you every step of the way
You will need to undertake relevant statutory and safeguarding checks and must be able to provide references for your experience and have the right to work in the UK.
Our family of schools are:
- Welcoming and supportive school communities with a strong focus on collaboration and well-being.
- Well-resourced learning environments, including vibrant indoor and outdoor learning spaces.
- A chance to shape the early educational journey of children and have a lasting impact on their lives.
About the Early Years Supply Teaching Assistant Role:
- Assisting the class teacher in the delivery of daily activities across the EYFS setting
- Preparing engaging play-based opportunities that promote curiosity and early learning
- Supporting individuals and small groups to develop literacy, numeracy and communication skills
- Providing additional guidance to children who may need extra encouragement with routines and tasks
- Promoting independence, social interaction and positive behaviour
Safeguarding Statement
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. Following our compliance checks you will be supported by your dedicated SMS contact, to find the right fit within our growing community of schools and multi-academy trusts and will have access to permanent teaching opportunities.
Apply for this position and upload your CV, one of the SMS team will be in touch.
OTSA
During 2024 OTSA undertook some detailed research looking into the amounts charged by supply agencies, both daily charges for supply staff and finders fees for permanent staff. We were shocked to find out how little supply colleagues are paid compared to how much schools are charged.
OTSA’s mission to reduce supply costs for schools, whilst paying supply colleagues more has established a partnership with Schools Mutual Services, a non-profit supply and recruitment organisation.
Working with Schools Mutual Services could keep as much as £800,000 a year in Oxfordshire schools, that would otherwise be profit for supply agencies, whilst ensuring that supply colleagues are paid more.
SMS have opened an Oxfordshire office in Littlemore and Jason, Georgia and Jasmine are busy recruiting colleagues to support Oxfordshire and South East schools with their supply and staffing needs.
We are on a mission to change things and ask you to help us with our mission and register with Schools Mutual Services today!
SMS Principles:
- To provide high-quality and reliable support staff and teachers for all schools.
- To ensure fair pay & conditions for the staff employed but to also remain fiercely competitive
- To give back to schools by not taking excess profits out of education
About Schools Mutual Services:
Schools Mutual Services (SMS) is a not-for-profit, mutual supply agency dedicated to education. The business was born out of sheer frustration at the exorbitant margins being made by supply agencies. Nick Hurn OBE, the Chief Executive Officer of Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust is the company’s chairman, and the board is made-up of current education executive leadership. The Board’s primary goal is to ensure valuable resources remain in the sector and pay & benefits are commensurate with colleagues, critical for maintaining quality of education provision.
