Teaching Assistant and OPAL

St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 3PY

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  27 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 June 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: £24,404.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) OPAL salary £24,027 per annum pro rata

Teaching Assistant and OPAL job summary

We are recruiting:

Teaching Assistants who understand children and their needs. You may have experience of working with children with SEND or in Reception / Early Years settings but this is not essential. We are looking for people who are kind, courageous, willing to learn and are able to build supportive relationships with adults and children in our community.

We are an inclusive, Catholic school, built on the belief that every child is made unique and in God’s image. We welcome applications from people of all faiths and none who will uphold our religious ethos and respect every child’s unique talents, treating every member of our community with the greatest dignity.

Our Teaching Assistants have a huge role in our school, and we encourage them to specialise in areas of interest where their skills can best transform children’s lives.

Our school can offer you:

An opportunity for you to make a real difference in the lives of our young people

A welcoming and enthusiastic environment with a talented and dedicated colleagues

A supportive leadership team to help you thrive and develop your own strengths

The successful candidate will need to:

Be kind and have courage.

Be able to adapt the role to a changing educational landscape and to support other staff through this.

Be hard working.

Have high personal expectations and dedication to achieve the best for the children they teach and support.

Have the positive attitude needed to support class teachers in delivering planned activities as well as in managing groups of children.

Have good Literacy and Numeracy skills, be able to support children in reading, writing and maths.

Talk about education and our values, giving examples how they live these in their own lives and contexts

Work collaboratively with all members of the community.

Visits to the school are warmly encouraged. Please phone the school office to arrange a tour of our wonderful school.

Tour dates available: Tuesday 24th June, 4pm

Wednesday 25th June, 1:30pm

If you believe you could add to our school community then please submit the application form.

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 are not accepted.

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.

About St Peter's Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 419 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Peter's Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-peter-s-catholic-primary-school-gl1-3py

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