Learning Support Assistant
Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3BA12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
3 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 June 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
- Grade 5 (SCP 5-6) from £12.85 per hour (pending pay award)
Learning Support Assistant job summary
Position Details:
- Role: Learning Support Assistant (Early Years & KS1)
- Start Date: September 2025
- Hours: 20 hours/week (initially)
- Salary: Grade 5 (SCP 5–6), starting at £12.85/hour (pending pay award)
- Contract: Term Time Only (43.6 weeks/year)
- Closing Date: Thursday 3 July 2025
- Interview Date: Wednesday 9 July 2025
What We’re Looking For:
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Strong organisational abilities
- A positive, enthusiastic approach to learning
- Relevant qualifications (e.g., TA NVQ Level 2) and experience in educational settings
Why Join Us?
- A nurturing school environment focused on lifelong learning
- Career progression and professional development opportunities
- Access to wellbeing support including mental health first aiders, counselling, and wellness programmes
- Flexible working policies and generous leave packages
- Pension scheme, cycle-to-work programme, and other staff benefits
Our Values: Collaboration | Aspirations | Respect | Positivity
Safeguarding Commitment:
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The post is subject to enhanced DBS clearance and other checks.
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 are not accepted.
About Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 7
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 342 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 7
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School website
Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School is a thriving three form entry school with a large early years nursery. We believe the time our pupils spend with us as developing learners is the most important in all their years of education. We are determined to keep innovating and building on improvements to ensure we provide the very best learning opportunities for all.
"An excellent, happy school where we enjoy learning"
Our school values are at the core of everything we do. They underpin our teaching and learning, and provide an environment which prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens.
Our school vision is "to create a learning environment which encourages every individual to achieve their best in all aspects of their lives".
Our values underpin the vision statement and aims. At our school we especially value:
Collaboration: 'We work together to support and nurture everyone to achieve their aims'
Aspirations: 'We encourage each other to aim high and achieve their aspirations’
Respect: ‘We are honest, thoughtful and considerate to ourselves, others and the world around us'
Positivity: 'We adopt a 'can do' and optimistic attitude'
These values underpin everything that we do in order to achieve excellence.
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