Early Years Teaching Assistant

St Alban's Catholic Voluntary Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 6NU

11 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  9 November 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  22 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £11,643.12 - £12,012.68 Annually (Actual) Band 2, SCP 3 - 5

Early Years Teaching Assistant job summary

Do you have a passion for helping young children thrive? Are you caring, enthusiastic, and committed to making a difference every day? If so, we would love to hear from you.

At St Alban's Catholic Voluntary Academy, we are looking for a dedicated Early Years Teaching Assistant to join our welcoming and supportive team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in children's earliest learning experiences, helping to nurture confidence, independence, and a lifelong love of learning.

Working alongside our experienced teachers, you will support children in achieving their academic, social, and personal potential. Whether working with individuals, small groups, or the whole class, you will help create an engaging, inclusive, and inspiring environment where every child can flourish.

What you'll be doing

• Supporting children to access the Early Years curriculum and achieve their full potential.
• Encouraging independence, self-esteem, and positive social development.
• Delivering tailored support to individual pupils and small groups, including those requiring additional support and intimate care.
• Working collaboratively with teachers to create exciting and engaging learning experiences.
• Helping to maintain a positive, nurturing, and stimulating classroom environment where every child feels valued.

What we're looking for

• A genuine enthusiasm for working with young children and supporting their development.
• A proactive, flexible, and positive approach to learning and teamwork.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues.
• A commitment to supporting our Catholic ethos and values (you do not need to be Catholic, but you must respect and promote our ethos).

Why join us?

At St Alban's, our children are at the heart of everything we do. You'll join a friendly and dedicated team where your contribution will be truly valued. We are committed to supporting professional development and offer opportunities to grow your skills and progress your career within the school.

This is a fixed position working 19.5 hours per week, term time only.

Join us and help create the strong foundations that enable every child to learn, grow, and succeed.

Why join St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi-Academy Trust?

As part of our family of 25 Catholic schools, you will benefit from:

• Excellent professional development, with access to high-quality training, CPD and opportunities to grow your career.

• Genuine career progression, across our Trust and the wider family of 83 academies within the Diocese of Nottingham.

• A generous pension, through the Local Government Pension Scheme, with significant employer contributions.

• Support for your wellbeing, including access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7.

• Nationally agreed terms and conditions, reflecting our commitment to valuing and supporting our colleagues.

• A strong sense of purpose, working within a community where compassion, inclusion and service to others are at the heart of everything we do.

Ready to make a difference?

If you believe that every young person deserves someone in their corner, we would love to hear from you.

Come and help us turn potential into possibility, one student, one achievement and one school day at a time.

To learn more about our Trust, visit www.srscmat.co.uk.

Safeguarding statement

St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This appointment is subject to satisfactory references, which will be requested prior to interview, an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, verification of qualifications and evidence of the right to work in the UK.

Please note: The closing date may be brought forward depending on the level of interest received. We therefore encourage early applications.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About St Alban's Catholic Voluntary Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 321 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: St Alban's Catholic Voluntary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-alban-s-catholic-voluntary-academy

At St Alban’s we aim to help children develop in their journey of faith in a positive learning environment. We believe that our school will make a valuable contribution to their development. It is a caring environment where children develop their many talents.

We recognise the importance of educating the ‘whole’ child. Academic excellence and acquiring a depth of knowledge for all children is one of our goals but we also try to nurture those special gifts which makes each child unique.

At the start of this academic year we became part of the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust.

We join together with 19 other primary schools and 5 secondary schools in the Diocese of Nottingham located in Derbyshire, Derby City, Staffordshire and Stockport into a single Catholic Multi Academy Trust to form,

‘A Catholic family of schools providing service and witness to children, their families and the communities they serve. Stronger together, united in faith and working as one to enrich the learning experience of all our young people so that they fulfill their God-given potential’.

Home/School/Parish links are vital. We value the contribution to school life that parents make and the support offered by Father David and the parish of St Alban’s Catholic Church. Together, we ensure that St Alban’s Catholic Primary School remains a very special place.

Mr. Andrew Monaghan, Head Teacher

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