Teaching Assistant
Waterbeach Community Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9JU10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £19,016.00 Annually (Actual) £14.63 per hour
Teaching Assistant job summary
Waterbeach Community Primary School are looking to appoint two dedicated Teaching Assistants who will work as part of a strong team in EYFS and Year 1. The role will be for 30 hours per week, term time only, and will include both general TA and working 1-2-1- with high needs pupils.
The actual hours of work will be 08:30 - 15:15 with a 15 minute morning break and 30 minute lunch break
We are looking for someone who:
- Is caring patient and enthusiastic, with good communication skills and has high expectations
- Has a therapeutic approach to supporting pupil’s behaviour and learning
- Is able to support individual pupils 1:1
- Is able to lead interventions with individuals and groups of pupils
- Is proactive, highly motivated and a good team player
We can offer:
- A great team of dedicated staff and empowered, hardworking children
- Term-time-only working
- A friendly school community with a distinctive ethos
- A growing and supportive staff team where effort, encouragement and excellence are celebrated and where professional development opportunities are provided
- Two paid wellbeing days a year
- Access to a counsellor in school and an employee assistance programme
- A school at the heart of its community with great relationships with parents
- Support with leadership development
- A dedicated and developing SEN team
- Access to the cycle to work scheme
Salary details:
Teaching Assistant - Level 2, Scale point 5, starting at £14.63 per hour
The staff and Governors at Waterbeach Community Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Please note that online checks will be made on all shortlisted candidates and the appointment is subject to the receipt of satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, barred list check, medical and reference checks. All pre-employment checks are in line Safer Recruitment guidance and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023.
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 are not accepted.
About Waterbeach Community Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 516 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Waterbeach Community Primary School website
School location
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