Level 2 Teaching Assistant

St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 6EU

20 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,000 - £24,999 per annum. Spinal Point 7

Level 2 Teaching Assistant job summary

St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and adaptable teaching assistant to join our highly motivated team.

This is a 1 year fixed term vacancy for 24 hours per week term-time only (including INSET days) starting September 2025.

Hours: 24 hours per week

Salary: £20,000 - £24,999 per annum. Spinal Point 7

We are a one form entry Catholic primary school and the children are at the very centre of everything we do. Our school is committed to ensuring we deliver the highest quality education through exploration, enjoyment and creativity. We work hard to ensure our children fulfil and achieve their full potential and be the best they can be. We have a strong tradition of success in sports and music and close links to our parish family and the wider community.

We are a good school (Ofsted 2024) with high ambition for our pupils. The Catholic life and teaching in our school is outstanding.

We are looking for someone who:

• Can establish positive relationships with pupils and empathise with their needs
• Has experience of supporting children in a classroom environment
• Enjoys working as part of a team
• Is expected to deliver intervention programmes to groups of children

In return we can offer you:

• Delightful, well behaved pupils who are keen to learn
• Supportive colleagues and parents
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• A school where staff wellbeing is a priority
• Strong links with other Catholic schools including our main secondary feeder school, St Richard’s Catholic College in Bexhill

To arrange a visit to the school or for an informal chat about the role, please contact the school office on O1424 427801.

The closing date for applications is Friday 13th June 2025

Interviews will be held W/C 16th June 2025

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 210 pupils
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-mary-star-of-the-sea-catholic-primary-school-st-leonards-on-sea

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