Vacancies
Recruitment Information
To ensure that St Mary's meets its commitment to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children and young people, the following recruitment practices and procedures are used in compliance with all statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024) and Disclosure and Barring Service code of practice.
Short-listing of candidates will be against the person specification of the post.
Prior to interview, the school will:
- Seek two references, one of which must be the current/ most recent employer, for all shortlisted candidates.
- Undertake an 'online presence' check for all shortlisted candidates (KCSIE 2024 p55) - including social media and wider google searches. Shortlisted candidates will be asked for social media handles to support us in narrowing these searches. Any concerns will be addressed with candidates.
All offers of employment are conditional until the satisfactory completion of the following mandatory pre-employment checks (KCSIE 2024, p57):
- Identity check and verification
- Enhanced DBS Check
- Overseas Criminal Checks (where the candidate has lived or worked in another country for more than 3 months, since the age of 18)
- Right to Work in UK verification
- Verify candidate's mental and physical fitness to carry out their work duties.
Current Vacancies:
Nursery Assistant/ Early Years Practitioner
The early years are the foundation stone to life-long learning. Do you want to be part of our amazing nursery provision which is expanding to include 2-year-old pupils from September 2025?
Thank you for your interest in our advertised position: Nursery assistant / Early Years Practitioner. We are looking to appoint exceptional candidates and qualified childcare professionals with the responsibility for a key group within our preschool provision. You will perform an important role caring for children and maintain a high quality, stimulating learning environment. You will be creative and reflective and are able to implement new ideas and use a range of strategies to continually improve practice and work as part of the Nursery team.
As a maintained school Nursery, St Mary’s will have a teacher-in-charge whose role will be to facilitate high-quality teaching and learning planning and to support the team in delivering our goals and objectives.
Information about our school:
We are a large (three-form-entry) primary school situated in the city centre of Southampton. We serve a diverse community with almost three-quarters of our pupils speaking English as an additional language.
We are led by an Executive Headteacher and a large leadership team that incorporates staff from sister-schools: Mason Moor Primary and Valentine primary
Our offer to every colleague:
- Bespoke professional development opportunities.
- Cutting-edge technology for the planning and delivery of lessons. Use of multi-collaboration platforms to simplify the process of lesson planning.
- A device to help your planning, preparation and assessment.
- A ‘Staff wellbeing charter’ with perks including, a paid days leave throughout the year for personal wellbeing. A commitment to reduce planning.
Application information:
Your interview day is a mutual process aligned to helping you to decide if this is the school to advance your career in. We aim to make the day as supportive as possible. Any questions pre or post application can be sent to Dani Mitchell, our school business manager dani.mitchell@stmaryspri.org.uk
It would be expected that the post holder can demonstrate strongly the competencies outlined in this post definition to be shortlisted for interview.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to satisfactory references, health checks, social media checks and an enhanced DBS clearance.
Initial Teacher Training (PGCE)
Are you interested in training to become a qualified teacher? We regularly offer training places through our partnership with the University of Southampton Education School.
Find out more by contacting the university:
visiting their webpages:
www.southampton.ac.uk/learntoteach
or coming to an Open Evening at the university: