Teaching Assistant

Avening Primary School, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8NF

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 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 - £27,711.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £6212.66 - £7054.54 depending on qualifications and experience

Teaching Assistant job summary

We are seeking to appoint a teaching assistant to join our team at Avening Primary School. Within this role, you will work with the class teacher to deliver lessons in a mixed age class and to support students across the curriculum including those who have additional academic, social or emotional needs. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, positive and reflective practitioner, with a passion for teaching and learning - someone who enjoys working as part of a team to encourage all children to be the best they can be.

In return, we offer:

Happy children who have a passion for learning

A warm, friendly team of staff and governors, who are committed to sharing and developing good practice

A positive ethos underpinned by shared values

An engaging, supportive learning environment and idyllic surroundings

Salary will be dependent on experience. This is a fixed term appointment in the first instance.

Closing date: Friday 13 June 2025

Interviews: Monday 23 June 2025

Avening Primary School is an equal opportunities employer, committed to the safeguarding of all our children. All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and excellent references prior to appointment. The post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 therefore all convictions, including those usually considered spent, must be declared.

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.

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About Avening Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 108 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Avening Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/avening-primary-school-tetbury

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