1:1 Teaching Assistant
Shaldon Primary School, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 0DD4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
4 September 2025
Closing date
18 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per week
Contract type
- Fixed term - 31st August 2026
Pay scale
- C 5
What skills and experience we're looking for
For Shaldon Primary School, we are looking to appoint an exceptional 1:1 Teaching Assistant who:
- Will be enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated working alongside the class teacher
- Will occasionally supervise whole classes during the short-term absence of teachers (i.e. cover supervision) and respond to questions and generally assist pupils in undertaking set activities when fulfilling this supervisory role.
- Will be required to work under the direction of the class teacher and liaise with other professionals both within and outside the school
- Responsible for working with individual pupils and small groups
- Will be expected to show a high degree of initiative and be able to react to given solutions with integrity and compassion
- Have experience of working with children. Ideally, within a school environment
- Can inspire and motivate children and enable them to be the best that they can be
- Has the ability to encourage every child to learn and achieve and has enthusiasm, skill and desire to make a difference
- Has a passion to ensure high expectations for all ensuring that they make outstanding progress
- Can plan, prepare and promote constructive play during the lunchtime period
We welcome applications from Teaching Assistants who are highly motivated individuals and who will work effectively as part of our excellent team. They will be keen to contribute to the wider school life, building positive relationships with all members of our community.
What the school offers its staff
The Academies for Character and Excellence has twenty Primary Schools making up a dynamic and innovative learning organisation.
We live our mission and return to this constantly to help guide every action. At the heart of all we do is the pursuit of excellence; we want to grow an exceptional trust, comprised of excellent schools. We are achieving this through our shared core values of collaboration, community, equity, and of course uncompromising excellence.
We are truly collaborative and we work together within, and across, our schools to ensure that all our children and members of staff achieve their potential. Together we work to create a full and rich curriculum offer allowing everyone to flourish - we translate our vision of excellence into our every-day practice. We are proud of our outcomes, but we aspire to achieve more than just academic excellence for our children. We also want our children to become healthy thinkers, curious explorers, caring citizens, knowledgeable participants and confident individuals.
We aim to serve our communities, and our schools make every effort to connect with families, local community groups and organisations to ensure that our children and families are nurtured, supported and provided with opportunities through our schools.
Our value of equity leads us to want the very best of every child and every member of staff. The Academies for Character and Excellence believes in ‘Personal Growth for All’ and we are committed to tackle inequalities and overcome disadvantage, and to provide bespoke opportunities for professional learning for all.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Shaldon Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 200 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Shaldon Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk
Arranging a visit to Shaldon Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk.
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