Teaching Assistant
Castlefield School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 3LE19 days remaining to apply
Job start date
3 September 2025
Closing date
9 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): This is a permanent 32.5 hours per week post, Monday – Friday 8:30am – 3:30pm, term time only, including INSET days.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Bucks Pay Spine 1a/5 – 3/20 £23,104 - £29,295) pro rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit highly effective Teaching Assistants to join our friendly and dedicated staff. Previous experience is desirable but induction, support and training will be given.
The successful candidate will be:
- Organised, enthusiastic and highly motivated
- Able to provide creative, enriching and learning opportunities for our children
- Committed to raising standards
- Able to work in a team
- Caring and patient
- Have high standards of numeracy and spoken and written English
- Able to support children with barriers to learning
- Qualified to NVQ Level 3 as a minimum.
What the school offers its staff
We will offer you:
- Hard-working, well-behaved and enthusiastic pupils
- Commitment to your CPD
- A forward-thinking leadership team
- A supportive working environment
- An ambitious, diverse school community with enthusiastic colleagues and supportive Governors and parents/carers.
Further details about the role
Visits to our school are encouraged. Please contact the school office on the number above to arrange an appointment to visit. Alternatively, email: office@castlefield.bucks.sch.uk
The school welcomes applications from all communities, including those from BAME backgrounds, and would actively encourage all appropriately qualified candidates to apply - without hesitation.
Commitment to safeguarding
Castlefield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
References will be sought, and an enhanced DBS check and an online profile search will be carried out for the successful candidate.
It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to office@castlefield.bucks.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Castlefield School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 469 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Castlefield School website
- Email address
- office@castlefield.bucks.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01494 436018
Primary School with Nursery (ages 2 - 11 years)
Arranging a visit to Castlefield School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@castlefield.bucks.sch.uk.
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