
1:1 Teaching Assistant
Someries Junior School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 8AH10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
14 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £17,902.00 Annually (Actual)
1:1 Teaching Assistant job summary
Someries Junior School
1:1 Teaching Assistant
(Fixed Term Contract starting September 2025)
Salary: £17902 p.a.– Term Time Only
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, flexible, skilled and motivated 1:1 Teaching Assistant, on an initial fixed term contract for one year from September 2025. The successful candidate will be friendly, hardworking and have a good sense of humour. Applicants should be able to use their own initiative, be innovative and work well as part of a team.
The successful candidate will provide support for a 1:1 pupil to ensure they are supported in school so that they can play a full and active role and achieve their potential. Applicants should preferably hold a relevant childcare qualification, although training may be given.
If you are patient, resilient, and organised, with a passion for helping children succeed, you would be our ideal candidate.
Applicants should:
- Be committed to continuing to raise the achievement and attainment of our children
- Have excellent literacy and numeracy skills
- Be enthusiastic, resourceful, caring and understanding
- Preferably have some previous experience of working with children with special needs (although this is not a necessity)
- Be able to work:
o on a 1:1 basis with a child who has an Education Health & Care Plan and/or
o as a general class Teaching Assistant
- Be willing to undertake any necessary training including first aid
- Be able to work in a team sharing good practices and developing resources and materials
- Be willing to supervise children at breaks and lunchtimes in clubs or on the playground and school field
We can offer you:
- enthusiastic pupils who love learning
- excellent training opportunities
- exciting and stimulating teaching environment
- an ethos of team working and mutual support
- supportive parents, carers and governors
- senior leaders that create a culture where all are valued and can thrive
- a school where achievement and progress are good
Hours of work:
Monday to Friday - 31.25 hours per week (worked from 8:45am to 3:30pm). Hours will include a daily lunch duty. Term time only.
Visits to the school are welcomed: contact Mrs Dawn Dudley on 01582 738810 or admin@someriesjuniorschool.co.uk
Closing date: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Interview date: w/c 19 May 2025
Applicants for this public-facing post will need to demonstrate the ability to converse, and provide effective help or advice, fluently in spoken English. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). CVs will not be accepted for any posts based in schools.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). CVs will not be accepted for any posts based in schools.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Someries Junior School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 241 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Someries Junior School website
We are a small two-form entry junior school with an expansive site including large playing fields for our children to enjoy. We work in collaboration with our outstanding partner infant school to ensure that children benefit from the Someries experience from Nursery to Year 6. We are a friendly and happy school with an experience, stable and supportive staff team.
We are situated near the Hertfordshire borders on the outskirts of Luton, an area that offers the conveniences of a modern town and the green spaces of the countryside. It is near transport connections by road, rail and air to London, the UK and beyond.
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