Teaching & After School Club Assistant

Caldecott Primary School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 5HB

29 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  11 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 32 hours per week to be worked across the following days: - Monday & Tuesday - 08:45 – 17:30 Wednesday, Thursday & Friday – 08:45 – 15:15
• Contract type: Fixed term - 31st August 2026
• Hourly rate: £13.05

What skills and experience we're looking for

Caldecott School is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Teaching and After School Club Assistant.

If you would like to work Monday to Friday and term-time only, we would love to hear from you. We offer innovative, forward thinking, and friendly staff, great team working and a commitment to staff training.

‘’ Starting right from Nursery, children learn how to behave well. They show kindness and respect to each other as they go through the school’’. (Ofsted March 2023)

This role of Teaching Assistant includes working closely with the class teacher and supporting both individual children with additional needs and groups of children across the provision. This role may involve 1:1 support for a pupil with SEN.

The successful candidate will:

• be happy providing a range of learning support to pupils
• be happy working in role which at times can be challenging and will require initiative and flexibility to suit the needs of the child/ren
• be committed to inclusion and equality of opportunity
• work with a team of committed TAs and in collaboration with other teaching staff under the direction of the SENCo to deliver a tailored curriculum and specific intervention and support for children with high level additional needs

After School Club duties include: -

• Organising games & activities for the children
• Helping prepare snacks
• Organising the safe handover of children to/from other areas of the school and to parents/carers at the end of the session.

A ‘can do’ attitude and sense of humour is essential!

What the school offers its staff

We offer innovative, forward thinking, and friendly staff, great team working and a commitment to staff training

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

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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TA & ASC Job Description.pdf - 275 KB (opens in new tab)

TA & ASC Person Spec.pdf - 109 KB (opens in new tab)

About Caldecott Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 386 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Caldecott Primary School website
• Email address: l.purvey@caldecott.oxon.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01235 523132
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/caldecott-primary-school

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