Teaching Assistant

Orchard Park Community Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 2GR

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 February 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  28 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,583.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Do you want to join one of the greatest teams in the country? Looking for a supportive, friendly workplace where people just want to stay? If so - good news!

We are seeking to appoint a friendly, energetic and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to work within our supportive, creative, wonderfully welcoming school.

Are you:

• Caring, reliable and motivated?
• Able to work dynamically as part of a team?
• Commited to putting children first?
• Passionate about all children reaching their full potential?
• Resilient?
• A warm and friendly face to children, parents and colleagues?
• Passionate about learning, resilient and have a sense of humour?
• A fan of cake?

We recommend you visit our school in the first instance to get a feel for us - first impressions are really important for everyone!

This is a full-time position, working 30 hours per week, (8:45 - 3:15), term time only (38 weeks). This position is for a fixed term until July 22nd, with the possibility of being extended.

For more detail, please have a look at our website and the attached application pack.

Person Specification

Essential

• A commitment to the safeguarding of all pupils including the Prevent agenda.
• Experience of working with children with special needs in an educational setting.
• Has high expectations of self and others.
• Wants to work with children and have a positive impact on their learning.
• Is reliable, hardworking and prepared to go the ‘extra mile’ for our children.
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as being able to work independently.
• A commitment to improving practice through self-review and on-going professional development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• An ability to form positive relationships with all members of the school community.
• An understanding and commitment to school policies.
• An ability to promote, support and facilitate inclusion
• Maintain a stimulating and safe learning environment
• Use effective behaviour management strategies in line with school policy
• Ability to work under pressure and remain positive, enthusiastic and resilient.
• Adaptability to changing circumstances and new ideas.
• Flexibility
• Excellent organisational skills.

Desirable but not essential

• Experience of running interventions for literacy and/numeracy
• Experience of supporting a pupil with an Educational Health Care Plan
• Experience of working in EYFS, KS1 and KS2
• Knowledge of the primary curriculum.
• An understanding of issues affecting educational attainment.
• An understanding of a range of strategies to support pupil inclusion in the mainstream school.
• Ability to create a personalised work space to meet the needs of the named child.
• Able to contribute to effective assessment and planning
• Ability to adopt and modify plans to meet individual needs.
• Understands the value of play and opportunities for learning across a lunch time

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

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 Orchard Park Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 192 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Orchard Park Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orchard-park-community-primary-school

Orchard Park Community Primary School is a small school situated on the northern boundary of the City of Cambridge in the growing Orchard Park development. We are fortunate to have a new beautifully designed school which is well equipped and surrounded by open play space. Our school was recently reaffirmed as 'Good' by Ofsted (March 2017) and is a unique and special place to work.

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