Teaching Assistant and OPAL

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

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  26 September 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  12 September 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: £22,960.00 Annually (Actual) Salary for TA and OPAL combined

Teaching Assistant and OPAL job summary

St Peter’s Catholic Primary is building a community of educators who collaborate to support every child during their unique learning journey. If you can demonstrate an enthusiasm for working with children, a thirst for learning and an ability to rise above challenges and celebrate successes together then we would love you to join us.

We are seeking to recruit to our current TA team.

Post title: Teaching Assistant

Grade: TA: point 3, 4-6 £25,185 - £25,989

OPAL (lunch cover): point 2 £24,796, both per annum pro rata

Hours: 8:30am to 3:15pm, 20 minutes for lunch 25.83 hours per week, with 5 hours OPAL cover

Contract: Fixed Term (1 year)

Closing date: Friday 26th September 12pm

Interview date: Thursday 2nd October

Start date: asap

We are recruiting:

Teaching Assistants who understand children and their needs. You may have experience of working with children with SEND 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 23rd September, 1pm and 4pm

If you believe you could add to our school community then we look forward to receiving your application form.

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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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