EYFS TEACHING ASSISTANT / MDSA

Edgar Sewter Community Primary School, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8BU

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 November 2025

• Closing date

  17 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  2 October 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: £25,185.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 3, Point 4 to Point 6

EYFS TEACHING ASSISTANT / MDSA job summary

EYFS TEACHING ASSISTANT

Fixed term contract until August 31st 2026

Grade 3.4 £13.05 per hour £25,185 pro rata to Grade 3.6 £13.47 per hour £25,989 for 39 weeks

To commence: Monday 3rd November 2025

28.75 hours per week, term time plus 1 week initially

Monday to Friday 8.45am - 12.15pm 1.15pm - 3.30pm

Lunchtime duty - half an hour Grade 2.2 £12.65 per hour pro rata (claimed as additional hours)

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, dedicated, enthusiastic and experienced Teaching Assistant to join our Saplings Early Years Centre. We have a wonderful learning environment and enthusiastic, happy and motivated children who enjoy learning and behave well.

You should:

• have experience of working in the Early Years

• have a DFE approved Early Years qualification

• be highly committed to providing children with the best possible learning opportunities

• Be a good classroom practitioner with experience of working within the Early Years Foundation Stage.

• Have a good understanding of monitoring children’s progress and provide detailed next steps in learning.

• Have high expectations and aspirations for all children.

• Be able to plan and deliver bespoke child centred intervention.

• Develop high quality teaching and learning for pupils of all abilities

• Be able to work well as a member of both the Early Years and whole school team.

• Have a clear understanding of the teaching of phonics and a willingness to plan for and lead groups

• Demonstrate initiative

• Have boundless enthusiasm with a keen sense of humour!

We can offer you:

• High quality induction and continuing professional development.

• Pupils with excellent behaviour and attitudes.

• Well-motivated, happy children.

• A supportive staff, senior leadership team, governing body and parents.

  ASSET Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

  The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the job description and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and children's barred list check, health check, online search and satisfactory references. Copies of our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies are available on request.

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 Edgar Sewter Community Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 302 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Edgar Sewter Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/edgar-sewter-community-primary-school-halesworth

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