Teaching Assistant

Hook Lane Primary School, Welling, Kent, DA16 2ET

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  16 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,436.00 - £29,856.00 Annually (FTE) Scale 5 Point 51 - 54 £19,806.45 - £20,447.32 Actual Salary

Teaching Assistant job summary

Join Hook Lane Primary School as a Teaching Assistant!
Support pupils to learn, grow and thrive in a vibrant primary school community

Hours: 26.66 hours per week; Mon - Friday 8.40am -3.15pm. + 2.5 hours Midday Meal Supervisor assisting with the SEN lunch club Contract: Permanent Time Time Only: 38 weeks per year Start Date: ASAP Actual Salary: Scale 5 Point 51 - 54 £19,806.45 - £20,447.32 Actual Salary

Are you passionate about supporting children to achieve their very best? Hook Lane Primary School is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our friendly team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside teachers and other staff to support children’s learning, development, and wellbeing.

About The Role

As a Teaching Assistant at Hook Lane, you’ll play a key part in the classroom, helping to create a positive and engaging environment where all children can thrive. From supporting literacy and numeracy, to encouraging resilience and teamwork, you’ll make a meaningful difference to pupils’ learning journeys every day. This role will also require you to cover be the Midday Meal Supervisor for the SEN lunch club.

Who You Are

This role will suit someone who is:

• A passionate individual, committed to helping all children succeed.

• Skilled in literacy and numeracy, able to support learning effectively.

• Experienced in working with primary-aged children (desirable).

• A strong communicator who works well as part of a team.

• Reflective, professional, and always looking to improve outcomes for pupils.

• Experience of working with SEN children desirable

• Able to maintain confidentiality and professionalism at all times.

What We Offer

Hook Lane Primary is a school where support staff are valued and empowered. As part of the Maritime Academy Trust, we cultivate a warm, inclusive, and community-driven environment where every role makes a difference.

Here’s what you can expect:

• Work-Life Balance role, you’ll benefit from the school holiday schedule, giving you more time to focus on your well-being and enjoy a healthy work-life balance

• A values-driven, inclusive school environment where staff

• Opportunities to contribute to a nurturing setting where children thrive.

• Access to CPD training helping you grow in confidence, skill and knowledge.

• Real progression opportunities into wider role across the school or the Trust

• National terms and conditions, including the Local Government Pension Scheme.

• Staff wellbeing initiatives and regular development opportunities.

Ready to Make a Difference?

We’d love to welcome you for a visit — come and see what makes Hook Lane Primary School so special. Please contact the school office on 020 8303 3839 to arrange.

You’ll find more about the role, school, and Trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached. Apply now via My New Term — we may interview and appoint as applications are received, so don’t delay!

Hook Lane Primary School and the Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online checks in line with safeguarding guidance.

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

Maritime Academy Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful DBS clearance and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed

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 Hook Lane Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 452 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hook Lane Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hook-lane-primary-school-welling

Hook Lane Primary School is part of the Maritime Multi-Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich and Kent. Our schools transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills.

Hook Lane is an all-inclusive 2 form entry community school with a Nursery and a 14 place Resource Provision for pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. As a school we celebrate difference and diversity both through our ethos and our curriculum.

Our school motto of “Encouraging Fearless Learners” is at the heart of everything we do and we actively encourage our children to be independent and take risks in their learning. We very much value that our children experience enrichment through our educational visits and wider curriculum. At Hook Lane we recognise the important contributions that our parents and carers can make to their children’s education and regularly host workshops, big outcomes and performances to engage them and involve them in the learning taking place.

The Hook Lane staff team work collaboratively and have high expectations of our children to ensure they make the best possible progress during their time with us. We recognise that children deserve the opportunity to excel across the curriculum and pride ourselves on providing for ambitious standards in the humanities, arts and PE as well as in English and Maths. We measure success by understanding children’s individual progress and attainment and know that this can look different for each child.

As a community school we are keen to ensure children see the importance of growing into good citizens for the future and understand the important contribution they can make. To this end we work hard to build good relations with our local community through charity fund raising and visiting local businesses, localities and places of interest.

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