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Teaching Assistant

Featherby Junior School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6BT

This job expired on 22 April 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 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: 28 Hours at Grade D2 (points 4 - 11) + 2 Hours at C2

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant Opportunity!

30 Hours per week (28 Hours at Grade D2 (points 4 - 11) + 2 Hours at C2)

Are you a Teaching Assistant who is excited by learning and has a strong commitment to ensuring our children achieve their best? If so we would like to hear from you!! You will be working alongside the Class Teacher and other key staff, and will be joining our friendly and committed staff team.

You would be required to work across both the Infant & Junior schools.

Who We’re Looking For:

• A passionate individual dedicated to supporting all children to achieve their best.

• Someone with strong numeracy and literacy skills to effectively assist in the classroom.

• Experience working with children across the primary curriculum is highly desirable.

• A team player who builds positive relationships with children, parents, and staff.

• A reflective professional who consistently seeks to improve outcomes for students.

• Able to maintain confidentiality and demonstrate a high level of professionalism at all times.

• Committed to continuous personal and professional development to enhance their practice.

Featherby Junior and Featherby Infant and Nursery School are both part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent and Medway. Our academies transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills. The care and wellbeing of our pupils is a high priority and our children are enthusiastic and hardworking.

What We Can Offer You:

• A positive, friendly, and happy working environment where your wellbeing is a priority.

• A fantastic school community, united in achieving the best for our pupils.

• National terms and conditions, ensuring transparency and fairness.

• A secure future with the Local Government Pension Scheme, offering peace of mind and long-term financial stability.

• Early salary access and financial advice through Wagestream.

• Opportunities for professional growth through tailored CPD programmes, with exciting cross-trust development opportunities to enhance your skills.

• Access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme for support when you need it.

If this sounds like you we would like to hear from you. To find out more please contact Mrs Barraclough on: 01634 231984 (Juniors). For further information on the Trust and the school see attached applicant information pack.

Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via the My New Term website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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. Maritime Academy Trust is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks. In line with KCSIE 2024 guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, the Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and to share any pertinent information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children with Hiring Managers to be discussed at interview stage

Commitment to safeguarding

The Trust and its academies 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.

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About Featherby Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 360 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Featherby Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/featherby-junior-school

Featherby Junior School is part of the Maritime 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.

The Featherby Partnership is made up of 2 schools: Featherby Infant and Nursery and Featherby Junior who are working closely together like one school. We are going forward through an exciting period of change with a new leadership team and a collaborative approach to ensure consistency of high expectations for the whole of the Featherby community. At Featherby you will find a true passion for learning, happy and safe children, a purposeful environment and an inspiring curriculum. We believe these are the key ingredients that make a Featherby child stand out from the rest.

Our vision statement is 'Working together to inspire minds through inclusive and creative practice; aspirations are high for all'. Underpinning this we have our core values of unity, resilience, responsibility, respect, honesty and trust. We are very much a value lead school which underpins our whole approach. Featherby is an inclusive school that supports learners well and encourages them to be independent and take risks in their learning.

We have high expectations of behaviour at Featherby and promote positive praise amongst learners.

Working in collaboration with each other ensures that we build strong relationships with families, children and the wider community to continuously provide children with great learning opportunities!

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