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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    8 July 2025 at 5pm

  • Date listed

    1 July 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

£24,027.00 Annually (FTE) £16233 Pro rata salary. 30 Hours per week: 8.45am - 3.15pm (30 minute unpaid lunch break) Term time only

L2 Teaching Assistant job summary

About this Role

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join our remarkable team. The role will focus on supporting our children with their reading, a principal area of our children’s learning and development at Preston Hedge’s. The successful candidate will be dedicated to promoting excellent educational opportunities as well as encouraging children to build upon and develop their own abilities further.

The successful applicant should be:

  • Enthusiastic about Primary education
  • Passionate about developing the whole child
  • Flexible, motivated and energetic
  • Keen to work as part of a team
  • Eager to participate in professional development opportunities and keen to learn
  • Dedicated to meeting the personal needs of a child
  • Committed to upholding all safeguarding policies
  • Willing to train in first aid

We can offer:

  • A friendly, positive and dynamic staff team
  • Professional development opportunities and regular training from our senior leaders
  • Positive and hardworking children
  • A school with a passion for delivering the highest educational standard
  • An exciting, engaging curriculum enjoyed by both the children and adults who deliver it

Preston Hedges Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children. All appointments are subject to successful Disclosure and Barring clearance and any other necessary safeguarding checks, satisfactory references and medical clearance. Please be advised that as per KCSIE 2024 all shortlisted candidates will be subject to online checks. Please also be advised we will take up references prior to interview and that one referee must be your last employer.

Our Trust Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be viewed using the following link:

https://prestonhedgestrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Safeguarding-Child-Protection-Policy-2024.pdf

The school provides equal opportunities to all.

We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity. We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.

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

Preston Hedges Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children. All appointments are subject to successful Disclosure & Barring clearance and any other necessary safeguarding checks, satisfactory references and medical clearance. Please be advised that as per KCSIE 2022 all shortlisted candidates will be subject to online checks. Please also be advised we will take up references prior to interview and that one referee must be your last employer. The school provides equal opportunities to all.

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About Preston Hedges Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
419 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report

Preston Hedge's is an Outstanding school of 420 pupils based in Northamptonshire and is part of the Preston Hedge's Academy Trust.

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