Teaching Assistant

Southtown Primary School, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 0HJ

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  2 July 2025 at 1am

• Date listed

  24 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,646 - £18,941 actual pa

Teaching Assistant job summary

Part of the Kingfisher Schools Trust

Tel: 01493 653908

Email: recruitment@kingfisherschools.co.uk

• Salary - Grade D5, £18,646 - £18,941 actual pa (£24,790 - £25,183 FTE)
• Permanent 
• Part Time
• 32.5 per week
• Term Time plus 1 week
• Required for ASAP

Southtown Primary School is a welcoming school who aim to nurture, encourage and develop our students throughout their primary education. We provide a broad and balanced curriculum designed to provide our pupils with sufficient knowledge and skills they need to succeed in life. Our children are encouraged to value not only themselves and their independence, but also to respect and celebrate the opinions, achievements and cultures of others.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, hardworking and flexible Teaching Assistant to join our warm and welcoming team. This is a permanent role for 32.5 hours per week, term-time plus one week (39 weeks per year).

This role requires a patient, dedicated, positive individual who is passionate about working with children.

Experience in a similar role and flexibility to work across the school would be a distinct advantage. 

You will:

• Be able to meet the needs of children, including those with a variety of Special Educational Needs, under the direction of a teacher or HLTA 
• Be able to form positive relationships with children, staff and parents 
• Have high expectations of behaviour, effort and attitude and the necessary strategies to promote these qualities 
• Have recent experience of working in a primary school
• Enjoy working as part of a team 

What we offer: 

• A supportive leadership team
• A welcoming team of colleagues 
• Wonderful pupils who make everyday a pleasure 

As part of Kingfisher Schools Trust, you will receive a wide range of benefits, including: 

• Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development 
• Access to a huge variety of training courses through The National College 
• Pension scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contribution 
• Employee Assistance Programme for free and confidential advice 
• Shopping and leisure discounts 
• Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme 
• Affordable electric car salary sacrifice scheme 

If you have any questions, or would like to arrange a visit to our school, please contact - recruitment@kingfisherschools.co.uk

How to apply

For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, you will be redirected to our recruitment website for further information and to apply using the online application form.

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as the closing date for this vacancy may be altered if a sufficient number of applications are received. 

Closing date:  2 July 2025, 12 noon

Interview date:  7 July 2025  

Our school is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Commitment to safeguarding

Southtown Primary School is part of Kingfisher Schools Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS checks or police vetting will be required for all posts. Our application form must be fully completed, CV's alone cannot be accepted.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Southtown Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 196 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southtown Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southtown-primary-school

Southtown Primary School, based in the popular historic seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, is a mixed comprehensive primary school with an on-site Speech and Language Specialist Resource Base.

We promote a culture where pupils are happy, believe that they can succeed, take responsibility for their learning, set targets for their own achievement and develop as independent learners.

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