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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    28 September 2023 at 9am

  • Date listed

    15 September 2023

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Part time: 25 hours per week (4 days a week)

Contract type

Fixed term - Fixed Term until 29.03.2024

Actual salary

£12,539.00

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a reliable, friendly, and supportive 1:1 Teaching Assistant to join our support staff team on a fixed-term basis. This role is an outstanding opportunity to take on a key support role in a school that works hard to enthuse students and instil in them high standards. This role will be to support a child with specific SEN needs on a 1:1 basis throughout the day and as part of their class.

This role requires excellent communication skills, patience, and a passion for working with children. We are looking for a caring individual to assist the staff in promoting pupils’ academic, social and emotional development in astable and supportive learning environment and to enable pupils to achieve their full learning potential and facilitate their personal, academic, social and moral development.


What the school offers its staff

Buckland Newton is a very successful village school and the highest achieving school in the area. We are equidistant from both Dorchester and Sherborne and our school is very much part of the local community – we have strong links with the local church. We have wonderful support from the governing body, parents, a band of volunteers from the community and our FBNS (Friends of Buckland Newton School). We are committed to excellence in education and aim to excite children’s imaginations through a range of engaging and challenging learning experiences within a Christian environment.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding responsibilities associated with this role may include engagement in regulatory activity, such as administering first aid or supporting an upset child. It will have contact with young people on a day-to-day basis. SAST is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will meet the person specification and pass all safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS check Barred List check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

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Additional documents

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About Buckland Newton Church of England Primary School

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
Primary school
School size
109 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01935 316940

Buckland Newton is a very successful village school and the highest achieving school in the area. We are equidistant from both Dorchester and Sherborne and our school is very much part of the local community – we have strong links with the local church. We have wonderful support from the governing body, parents, a band of volunteers from the community and our FBNS (Friends of Buckland Newton School). We are committed to excellence in education and aim to excite children’s imaginations through a range of engaging and challenging learning experiences within a Christian environment.

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