Higher Level Teaching Assistant / Teaching Assistant
Spixworth Infant School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR10 3PX22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 August 2025 at 1am
Date listed
18 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- TA £12.84-£13.05 and HLTA £14.36-£15.58/hr
Higher Level Teaching Assistant / Teaching Assistant job summary
Based across the CARE Federation
Spixworth Infant School, Ivy Road, Spixworth, Norwich NR10 3PX
Woodland View Junior School, Ivy Road, Spixworth, Norwich NR10 3PY
Tel: 01603 898292
Email: business@carefed.org.uk
Website: www.spixworth.norfolk.sch.uk
Executive Headteacher: Ms H Jordan
- Salary – TA Scale D, £12.84-£13.05 and HLTA Scale F, £14.36-£15.58 per hour
- Permanent
- Part Time (27.5 hours per week)
- TA – 16.25 hours per week
- HLTA – 11.25 hours per week
- Term Time plus 1week
- Required for September 2025
At The CARE Federation, we live by our values of CARE: Community, Adventure, Respect and Excellence.
We are looking to appoint a Higher Level Teaching Assistant/Teaching Assistant to join our successful team, based at Spixworth Infant and Woodland View Junior Schools. You will work with children across the Primary Key Stages, providing high quality TA support in the mornings and HLTA class cover in the afternoons. The position is available now and we are aiming for a September start date.
Applicants will ideally have experience of working within a Primary school environment and be able to demonstrate their ability to work in an inclusive, nurturing, flexible and proactive way. This post would be suitable for an experienced and qualified Teaching Assistant or a future teacher looking to gain class-based experience.
We can offer:
- Children with huge potential
- Caring families
- Dedicated and friendly staff that take pride in their work and are a strong, committed team
- Supportive, approachable leaders
- A whole school commitment to child-centred education
- Spacious, purposeful learning environments
- Appropriate training and CPD to enable you to be your best
The successful candidate will:
- Be qualified to NVQ 3 or equivalent
- Have an inclusive and reflective mind-set
- Have a strong commitment to supporting the whole child
- Be patient, calm and caring
- Understand that children come from a range of contexts with a range of experiences and value these
- Have a desire and the capability to ensure that children achieve their potential
- Have a secure understanding of supporting the Primary curriculum
- Be able to establish positive and supportive relationships with children, parents and colleagues
- Be a role model in their attitude to others and in their conduct around school, relentlessly positive to everyone
- Have excellent communication skills and the ability to use own initiative
- Have strong numeracy and literacy skills
- support the wider life of the school through after school activities and events
As the appointment is taking place within the school holiday, visits to the schools may not always be possible. Please email any questions or view our website to find out more about our schools.
How to apply
A job description is available from ‘Attachments’.
To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.
Completed forms should be returned to – business@spixworth.norfolk.sch.uk
Closing date: 11 August 2025, 9am
Interview date: 15 August 2025
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
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Spixworth Infant School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 7
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 121 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 7
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Spixworth Infant School website
School location
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