Teaching Assistant
St Mary of Charity CofE (Aided) Primary School, Faversham, Kent, ME13 8AP12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £26,497.00 - £28,182.00 Annually (FTE) Actual annula salary for TA position: £18410.78. HLTA salary to be discussed.
Teaching Assistant job summary
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant or Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to join our welcoming and supportive team atSt Mary of Charity CofE (Aided) Primary School. The successful candidate will be appointed at TA or HLTA level, depending on qualifications, skills, and experience.
Working alongside teachers and other staff, you will support pupils’ academic, social, and emotional development, helping to ensure every child can thrive and achieve their potential. Candidates appointed as an HLTA will also be expected to take a greater role in leading learning activities, delivering interventions, and covering classes in the absence of a teacher.
This post is for 30 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only (38 weeks).
Key Responsibilities
- Support teaching and learning in the classroom under the direction of the class teacher.
- Work with individual pupils and small groups to help them access the curriculum and achieve their full potential.
- Assist with planning, preparing, and delivering learning activities and interventions.
- Help maintain a safe, supportive, inclusive, and stimulating learning environment.
- Support pupils with SEND, behavioural, emotional, or social needs as required.
- Contribute to assessment, record-keeping, and reporting on pupil progress.
- Supervise pupils during breaktimes, transitions, educational visits, and school activities.
- Work collaboratively with teachers, parents/carers, and external agencies to support pupil development.
- Promote positive behaviour, wellbeing, and safeguarding in line with school policies.
- For candidates appointed as an HLTA: lead learning activities, deliver targeted interventions, and provide planned classroom cover in the absence of the class teacher.
About You
We are looking for someone who is:
- Passionate about helping children learn and succeed
- Patient, empathetic, and committed to inclusive education
- Able to build positive relationships with pupils and colleagues
- Confident supporting learning across a range of ages and abilities
- Organised, proactive, and willing to take initiative
- A good communicator with strong interpersonal skills
What We Offer
- A welcoming, supportive staff team
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- A well‑resourced, positive learning environment
- The chance to make a meaningful impact on children’s education
We warmly encourage visits to the school. To arrange a tour or an informal conversation, please contact the school office.
We encourage early applications and reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About St Mary of Charity CofE (Aided) Primary School
- Organisation type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 208 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to St Mary of Charity (SMC) Primary School. We are set in the heart of Faversham and offer a safe, lively and purposeful place to work and learn, reflective of a rich curriculum and positive relationships. Our school is underpinned by our values of Determination, Aspiration, Teamwork, Faith, Forgiveness, Respect & Honesty. These values underpin our daily life at school and we are extremely proud of all our children accomplish both at school and as they enter life beyond SMC.
We believe in educating the whole child, ensuring that children achieve the very best of outcomes both in their core learning of Reading, Writing and Maths but also in the wider foundation subjects and in their understanding of citizenship and emotional & physical well-being. We work together as part of the local community and have a vibrant curriculum which is brought to life by all the facilities we are able to access from our prime position in Faversham. Our children are always interested, engaged and motivated in their learning.
If you would like to see us in action please contact the school office to arrange a tour.
I look forward to welcoming you to our wonderful school.
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