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Teaching Assistant

Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 5RL

This job expired on 22 April 2025 – see similar jobs

• 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.

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.

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About Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 480 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/garden-fields-junior-mixed-and-infant-school

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