Teaching Assistant

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, SL9 8SB

24 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  9 January 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  16 December 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: £23,297.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Our teaching assistants, as professional partners, work responsibly alongside teaching staff. The role is to support learning in the classroom, in small groups and one-to-one, as directed. The applicant must be able to work with groups of pupils to improve key Literacy and Mathematical skills, seizing opportunities for learning and supporting the teacher in whole class settings. The successful applicant should ideally have some experience of working with children in this age range.

Background experience:
NVQ teaching assistant, Level 3, A levels or childcare qualifications

(an advantage but not essential)

GCSE Maths & English, Grades A-C (Essential)

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 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 392 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Joseph's Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-joseph-s-catholic-primary-school-gerrards-cross

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