Learning Support Teaching Assistant – Senior School (maternity cover)

Norwich School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 4DD

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  March 2026

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  23 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,393 per annum

Learning Support Teaching Assistant – Senior School (maternity cover) job summary

Tel: 01603 728488

Website: https://www.norwich-school.org.uk/

• Salary: £19,393 per annum
• Temporary – maternity cover, up to one year
• Full time
• 37.5 hours per week
• Term time only (34 weeks per annum)
• Required from March 2026

We are looking for a suitably qualified, inspiring individual to work within the Learning Support department at our Senior School.

This is a term time only position, offered at 37.5 hours per week, for a fixed term of up to one year to cover a period of maternity leave, starting in March 2026. The salary for this post will be £19,393 per annum.

The Learning Support Teaching Assistant will have responsibility for assisting specific pupils within lessons and providing individual or small group out of class support, reporting to the Head of Learning Support (SENDCO) and working with and receiving instruction from a number of staff members including subject teachers. 

The successful candidate will have outstanding personal qualities and will be fully involved in all aspects of this thriving co-educational, independent day school, which is located in the Cathedral Close in the centre of this vibrant city. 

We have a strategic aim and commitment to increase the diversity of our staff body. We are passionate about the adults in our community being positive role models for pupils of all backgrounds and we also want our staff to reflect the diversity of our pupil body and wider society in general. We would therefore particularly welcome applicants who come from ethnically minoritised backgrounds.  

For more information about Norwich School and a full job description please visit www.norwich-school.org.uk.

How to Apply:

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Completed application forms should be returned to: recruitment@norwich-school.org.uk

Closing date: 5 January 2026

Interview date: TBC

Norwich School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects 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) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations

Registered Charity No: 311280                Co-Educational, HMC: 11-18; IAPS: 3-11

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.

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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 Norwich School

• School type: Independent school, Christian, ages 3 to 18
• School size: 1170 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Norwich School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/norwich-school

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