Learning Support Teaching Assistant - Senior School

Norwich School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 4DD

12 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  25 August 2025 at 1am

• Date listed

  12 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,393 actual pa

Learning Support Teaching Assistant - Senior School job summary

Tel: 01603 728488

Email: recruitment@norwich-school.org.uk

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

 

• Salary – £19,393 actual pa
• Permanent
• Full Time
• 37.5 hours per week
• Term Time only (34 weeks per year)

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

This is permanent, term time only position offered at 37.5 hours per week. 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

For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button to be redirected to our website for further information and our application form.

Completed application form should be sent by email to HR at - recruitment@norwich-school.org.uk

Closing date:  25 August 2025, midnight

Interview date:   TBA 

Norwich School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

 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.

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.

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.

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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