Teaching Assistant

Waterbeach Community Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9JU

Deadline is today

• 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.

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 Waterbeach Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 527 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Waterbeach Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/waterbeach-community-primary-school

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