Teaching Assistant
Listed on 2026-09-18
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Education / Teaching
Teacher Assistant/ Paraprofessional, Special Needs / Learning Disabilities, Special Education Assistant, Elementary School
Do you love working with children? Are you committed to building a nurturing and safe learning environment? If so, we would love to meet you! We are looking to recruit a passionate and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to work with the class teacher to support the running of the classroom and focussing on the needs of a child with SEN. This is your chance to work in a highly supportive and inclusive school where every child is valued as a unique individual.
We believe all children have the right to enjoy and achieve to the best of their ability in a safe, happy and secure environment.
Hours of work:
This is a term-time, permanent contract starting as soon as possible. Term time only - 39 weeks a year - 30 hours per week - 8.30am to 3.15pm
- Monday to Friday.
Salary: £26,044 full time equivalent per annum (£18,834.67 pro-rata per annum) - £13.88 per hour.
A typical day in the life of a teaching assistant:- Assisting the teacher in routine classroom tasks.
- Preparing learning materials and setting up equipment.
- Assisting individual children or groups of children, some of them with special education needs.
- Contributing, where appropriate, to any discussion of pupils' needs and progress.
- Making sure the learning environment is safe.
- Support pupil activities and behaviour.
- Participate in any relevant staff development activities.
- Assist in meeting the children's needs for encouragement and reassurance.
- Liaising with parents.
- Following safeguarding policy and procedures.
- A calm, friendly manner and the ability to build rapport with pupils.
- Great verbal communication skills.
- Flexibility to adapt to constantly changing priorities.
- Ability to work well within a team.
- A commitment to equality and inclusion.
- The ability to reflect on and develop their own practice with support from colleagues and the Learning Partner Trust CPD programme.
- Generous pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme)
- Family friendly employer
- Term time working. - A wide range of employee benefits including employee assistance programme, wellbeing app access, gym discount, cycle to work scheme and electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
- Free car parking.
Closing date for applications is Sunday 20th September 2026. Interview date tbc.
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