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Teaching Assistant

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 5JW

This job expired on 24 April 2025 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  24 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  4 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,027.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, hardworking and caring teaching assistant to join our school team to support children with special educational needs and disabilities and whole class teaching assistant work.

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is an inclusive, diverse and over-subscribed school, serving the community of Eastfield and the St Peter and All Sould Parish. We are proud members of St John the Baptist Catholic Multi-academy Trust.

Christian values are at the core of our school and community however we welcome applicants from any or no faith background. We have very strong links with our local communities and Parish and regularly hold masses and worship in school with a commitment to developing our children spiritually as well as academically and socially.

As a school, we are committed to the professional development of all staff through professional learning cycles. We are committed to ensuring that practical approaches to workload are put in place to support all staff and this commitment is realised through a Trust-level and school-level wellbeing charter.

The successful candidate will:

• - Have a good knowledge and understanding of SEND and knowledge of how best to support these pupils.

- Be passionate about ensuring that all children can learn to read.

- Be adaptable and able to work under pressure.

- Be open to support and advice.

- Have high expectations of what all pupils can achieve, no matter their starting point.

- Be approachable, kind, compassionate and act in accordance with the Catholic ethos and values of the school (we welcome applications from both Catholic and non-Catholic candidates).

Job description and main responsibilities:

- Working with children with SEND and with other professionals in this to support the teaching and learning of the children.

- Working with staff across the school to ensure that the children are able to access learning with their peers.

- Deliver appropriate interventions and specified programmes, under the direction of the teacher, in line with the children’s needs and listed provisions.

- Liaising with parent/carers of children as appropriate.

- Support with the preparation of resources for children with SEND.

- Undertake any reasonable duties outlined by the Headteacher in line with the role.

What we can offer you:

- A strong and supportive leadership team

- A Trust-wide and school-level wellbeing charter.

- Cycles of professional learning that are designed to improve pedagogy through the use of deliberate practice and peer coaching.

- A collaborative and positive environment which fosters personal and professional growth.

- A visible and approachable SLT, LGB and Trust who all hold the same values and see staff wellbeing and happiness as vital ingredients to working at St Thomas More.

- Performance development with a clear focus development of practice to improve teaching and learning.

- A dedicated pastoral team to support both staff and children.

Visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact the school office on 01733 566005 or office@st-thomasmoreprimary.com to arrange.

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare, both physical and emotional, of every pupil both inside and outside of the school premises.

As part of safer recruitment, St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, which is part of the St John the Baptist Catholic Multi Academy Trust, might conduct an online search in accordance with the Keeping Children Safe in Education framework.

Commitment to safeguarding

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We recognise that all staff, governors and volunteers have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils at our school.

The health, safety and well-being of every child in our care will always be of paramount concern. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families and carers has a full and active role to play in safeguarding children.

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About St Thomas More Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 412 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Thomas More Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-thomas-more-catholic-primary-school-pe1-5jw

St Thomas More is an outstanding Catholic primary school, with happy, caring school and polite and well-behaved pupils.

We provide an engaging, creative, broad and balanced curriculum for our pupils.

The governors are seeking to appoint a class teacher who is an excellent classroom practitioner to help us continue to raise standards of achievement through a strong knowledge of pedagogy and an innovative

approach to teaching.

Applicants from all faiths or none are welcome.

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