Teaching and Learning Assistant (with a PE/Sports focus)

Heath Primary School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S44 5RH

29 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2026

• Closing date

  22 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,800.00 Annually (FTE) This is a grade 8 role, with additional/flexible hours for running sports clubs

Teaching and Learning Assistant (with a PE/Sports focus) job summary

Join Our Team as a Teaching Assistant (PE & Sport Focus)

Are you passionate about sport, physical activity and helping children thrive? Heath Primary School is seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our supportive and forward-thinking team in a PE-focused role.

This is a varied and rewarding position, combining classroom support with a key role in delivering and promoting PE, sport and active play across the school. The week will be a balance of supporting teaching and learning in class, as well as supporting PE lessons, organising activities, and contributing to sporting events and clubs.

You will help to engage pupils in physical activity, promote teamwork and healthy lifestyles, and ensure all children can participate and succeed. Alongside this, you will support pupils’ learning, confidence and independence across the curriculum, including those with additional and SEND needs.

Working closely with class teachers, the SENDCo and the wider staff team, you will play an important role in both learning and enrichment, helping to create a positive, inclusive and active school environment. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with experience or a strong interest in PE, sport or coaching, alongside a commitment to supporting all learners.

Heath Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and all relevant pre-employment checks.

Join us in championing the potential of every child and helping to create a nurturing, inclusive and active environment where all pupils can succeed.

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 Heath Primary School

• School type: Academies, Does not apply, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 367 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Heath Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heath-primary-school-chesterfield

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