25 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    3 November 2025 or sooner if available

  • Closing date

    12 September 2025 at 1am

  • Date listed

    18 August 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£13.05 per hour

Classroom Assistant - Year 6 job summary

Tel: 01366 388191

Email: head@hillcrest.norfolk.sch.uk


  • Salary - Scale C, Spinal Point 4, £13.05 per hour (£25,185 FTE)
  • Permanent
  • Part Time
  • 28.75 hours per week 
  • Term Time plus 1 week
  • Required from 3 November 2025 or sooner if available


Do you have any experience and/or training with primary aged children?

Are you an excellent practitioner who knows how to motivate polite, well behaved children and support teaching colleagues to bring them on with their learning?

Can you embrace the challenge of supporting children to make progress with their learning regardless of their starting point?

Do you have specific experience of managing the demands of supporting children through their final year at primary school as they prepare for their SATs examinations?

Have you been tasked with supporting groups of Year 6 pupils, through the use of targeted interventions, to enable them to achieve their very best?

Can you manage the daily challenges that come with supporting a child displaying behavioural difficulties whilst supporting that child to make progress despite those difficulties?  

We require a Classroom Assistant from 3 November 2025 or sooner. Although the role will primarily be based within Year 6, the successful candidate should be prepared to work across any age group within the school if required. 

Visits to the school are encouraged. Please make an appointment with the Headteacher, Mr Matthew Try, through the School Office at Hillcrest Primary School.


How to apply

A job description and a person specification are available from ‘Attachments’.

To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.

Please send completed application forms to the Headteacher, Mr Matthew Try, at head@hillcrest.norfolk.sch.uk

Please do not send CVs. 


Closing date:   12 September 2025, 12 noon

Interview date:   19 September 2025


The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from minority ethnic communities and those with disabilities. An enhanced DBS check will be required.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualifications) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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

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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Downham Market, Hillcrest Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
411 pupils enrolled
Age range
5 to 11
Ofsted report
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Hillcrest Primary School is a three-form entry Primary School, currently rated as Good by Ofsted (January 2018), on the outskirts of Downham Market. With less than a 5-minute drive to Downham Market Train Station, you find yourselves on a direct line to either Kings Lynn or London.

Hillcrest is in an exciting place, continually developing new ways of energising and motivating the next generation of pupils through the following means...
• Our bespoke Text-Linked Curriculum is designed to raise the profile of Reading and ensure the children see the links between all of their learning;
• Our Independent Learning programme encourages the children to take responsibility for their own learning and to make sensible choices that improve their outcomes;
• From September 2021 we have introduced an Outdoor Learning Curriculum which will take advantage of the wealth of outdoor space at our disposal, including a Forest School, to further engage the children with their learning

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