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  • Start date details

    ASAP

  • Closing date

    22 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    6 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£24,027.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) H2/3 Term Time only

Teaching Assistant job summary

Garden Fields JMI School is a part of the Ambition Education Trust in St Albans and is a large, thriving school where staff work together to provide children with the best outcomes.

We are looking to appoint a friendly, caring, capable Teaching Assistant to join our hardworking team. The successful candidate will support children's learning both in and out of the classroom, as individuals or within small groups. The job role is for 30.4 hours per week, Monday - Friday 8:40 - 15:15, term-time only. There could be some flexibility with these timing for the right candidate. The post is a fixed term contract until the end of this academic year.

Candidates will need to be confident in all aspects of the teaching assistant role, have a caring and nurturing approach to understanding the variety of needs of children and have excellent communication skills. Good literacy and numeracy skills are required and experience of teaching phonics is desired.

Garden Fields School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Visits to the school are encouraged in order for you to appreciate our caring and fun atmosphere, meet our children and members of our team.

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.

This job post has expired.

About Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School

School type
Academy, ages 5 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
525 pupils enrolled
Age range
5 to 11
Ofsted report
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School location

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