Teaching Assistant

Wantage Church of England Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8DJ

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  20 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £26,016.00 - £26,427.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary NJC Grade 4 SCP 4-5 (£18,423.49 - £18,714.55) 31.25 weekly hours (term time only)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant - Wantage CE Primary School

Contract: Permanent
Hours: 31.25 hours per week, term-time only
Salary: Grade 4, SCP 4-5
Start date: ASAP
Closing date: 20/11/2026

Interview date: TBC

About this Role

Are you passionate about helping children learn, grow and achieve their potential?

Wantage CE Primary School, part of Cambrian Learning Trust, is seeking a caring, enthusiastic and committed Teaching Assistant to join our team.

Working under the guidance of teaching staff, you will support pupils in accessing learning and taking part in school life. This will include providing individual and small-group support, helping prepare classroom resources and promoting pupils’ confidence, independence and positive behaviour.

Your role will include:

• Supporting pupils with their learning, including those with special educational needs.

• Helping deliver planned learning activities and support programmes.

• Creating a safe, welcoming and inclusive learning environment.

• Observing pupils’ progress and sharing feedback with teachers.

• Building positive relationships with pupils, colleagues and parents/carers.

• Supporting pupil supervision during lessons, breaktimes and school activities as required.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience of working with or caring for children of primary school age.

• Has good literacy, numeracy and communication skills.

• Understands children’s development and learning needs.

• Is patient, encouraging and committed to including every child.

• Works well within a team and follows guidance from teaching staff.

• Is willing to develop their skills through training.

• Is committed to safeguarding and promoting children’s welfare.

An NVQ Level 2 qualification for Teaching Assistants, or an equivalent qualification or experience, would be desirable.

Please read the attached job description and person specification for full details and apply through MyNewTerm.

For further information, please contact the school office at office@wce.cambrianlt.org.

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

SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
Wantage CE Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.

Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.

The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.

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 Wantage Church of England Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 435 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Wantage Church of England Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wantage-church-of-england-primary-school

Pupils at Wantage CE Primary School are safe, happy and enjoy their learning. We are well-supported by the Vale Academy Trust, governors, the local church, parents, and the wider community. This allows us to offer our pupils a broad and balanced curriculum that enables pupils to flourish and to live life to the full.

We are pleased to offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities including sports clubs such as judo, rugby, netball, tennis, frisbee, water-polo, tri-golf and ‘quad kids’ athletics. We are very proud of our sporting successes and the ever-increasing percentage of children who take part in a wide range of sports. We achieved the Schools Sports Mark Platinum Award this year, an accolade which we are proud of. We also competed in several local maths competitions and ran popular computing and robotics clubs.

We have a rich tradition of music at Wantage CE. Every year, Year 3 learn a brass instrument; and individual instrument lessons take place in all years including flute, keyboard, piano, drums and guitar. Gordon Campbell, VAT music specialist, teaches one day a week, leading Key Stage choirs and whole-school singing.

Our church links are very important to us. A team from church present a weekly Open the Book assembly and join us for collective worship. We attend church each term and we look forward to the Prayer Space team who visit us twice a year. Our Year 5 pupils enjoy the dedicated support of the nuns from St Mary’s Convent Wantage in helping them to understand the deeper meaning and significance of the Passion play which the pupils write, produce and perform every Easter.

Staff development continues to remain at the heart of Wantage CE Primary School. We have two staff who have completed their teacher training and are now teaching full time with us, we employed the first apprentice TA in the trust (he is performing extremely well), and this year we have a TA who has progressed to train as a SCITT with us.

School staff, parents and governors have together formulated a distinctive Christian vision for the school. Excellence for all in an environment of love, respect, hope, forgiveness and courage; where every pupil flourishes and lives life to the full.

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