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  • 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

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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
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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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