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Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Drake Primary School, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 1JW

This job expired on 12 December 2025 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  4 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,598 FTE

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

Tel: 01842 762055

Email: headspa@drake.norfolk.sch.uk

Website: www.drake.norfolk.sch.uk

• Salary – Scale F, £28,598 FTE (dependant on experience)
• Permanent
• Part Time
• 30 hours per week
• Term Time plus 1 week
• Required for 5 January 2026

Drake Primary School has a unique opportunity for an excellent Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join our teaching and learning team. If you are passionate about inclusion, unrelenting in achieving the best outcomes for children, values centred and keen to work in an innovative and ambitious team. we would love to hear from you. Hours of work, 08:30-15:30, Monday to Friday.

We are looking for someone who will:

• Be aligned with our values to deliver our vision, mission and aims
• Have experience in supporting children and leading classes across the full primary phase
• Have a proven track record of providing effective support for pupil learning
• Be representative of all celebrating the uniqueness of each individual in our school community
• Foster and understand that knowledge, wisdom and skills are achieved through the creative habits of learning
• Help everyone find joy in learning, feel safe to make mistakes and know when they are successful
• Recognise everyone’s role in the future of the world and its climate and link learning to the world of work
• Implement our relational approach through building relationships and supporting inclusion
• Provide pupils with a calm, safe and nurturing environment
• Uphold clear boundaries and high expectations
• Have excellent communication skills with pupils, colleagues and parents
• Ensure our pupils play safely, demonstrate our school values and build resilient friendships
• Prioritise mental health and wellbeing
• Fulfil the person specification attached

We can offer you:

• An innovative, trailblazing and successful school with strong support from an experienced Senior Leadership Team and a warm, friendly staff.
• Recognised for outstanding SEND, inclusion and as an Autism Specialist School by the National Autistic Society.
• Committed to empowering pupils and staff as advocates for a more sustainable world.
• The chance to work with wonderful students and families.
• A caring ethos with skilled, enthusiastic staff dedicated to pupil welfare, progress and life chances. Excellent professional development and career progression opportunities.
• Comprehensive safeguarding training and career pathway planning.
• Well-resourced ICT facilities.
• Opportunities to work in the local community and with our partner federation school.
• A Platinum Arts mark school with musicians in residence.
• Strong collaboration with our local cultural education partnership, celebrating creativity and enrichment.

How to apply

A job description/person specification is available from ‘Attachments’.

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

Completed forms should be returned to - headspa@drake.norfolk.sch.uk 

Closing date:   12 December 2025

Interview date:   TBA rolling

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 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.

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.

This job post has expired.

About Drake Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 411 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Drake Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/drake-primary-school

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