Primary Teaching Assistant
Robert Clack School, Dagenham, Essex, RM8 1JUThis job expired on 8 July 2026 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
8 July 2026 at 8am
Date listed
9 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Hours: 35 hours per week (Monday-Friday, 8.00am – 4.00pm), term-time, permanent.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary: Scale 4 - exact salary £25,937 - £27,070 per annum.
What skills and experience we're looking for
The person we require will:
- Have successful previous experience of working with children.
- Have clear knowledge and understanding of the principles of child development and learning processes within either EYFS and/or Key Stage 1 or 2.
- Be supportive, nurturing and understanding with high expectations.
- Seek to make learning exciting and a positive experience.
- Communicate well with parents, carers and members of staff, as well as pupils.
- Demonstrate good communication skills both orally and written.
- Have a good standard of literacy and numeracy.
- Have NVQ2 for Teaching Assistants (or equivalent) or be willing to work towards the qualification.
- Work well as part of a team.
- Be extremely patient, adaptable, flexible and willing to listen.
- Be willing to support pupils with basic hygiene needs and support them towards gaining independence.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- A supportive working culture that values staff at all levels and invests in people.
- Working with the teaching and support staff as part of a team.
- Opportunities to continue your own professional development.
- A dynamic working environment.
Further information about the job
Robert Clack Primary School is looking to recruit Teaching Assistants who are passionate about developing young minds, providing play-based learning opportunities and creating an immersive learning environment where our pupils can flourish. We are a small, friendly and supportive team in a fairly new primary school, which opened in September 2021.
Please note that this post may, at times, involve working one-to-one with allocated pupils who have SEND. However, depending on service need and the ongoing growth of the school, the job role may also involve being allocated to a class at any time to provide general class Teaching Assistant support. We therefore expect applicants to be flexible and willing to be either class-based or to provide small intervention group or one-to-one work with individual pupils.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Robert Clack School
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 18
- Education phase
- All through school
- Size
- 3231 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Robert Clack School website
- Email address
- mbrown@robertclack.co.uk
All-through School based over three different sites.
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