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Teaching Assistant

Constantine Primary School, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 5AG

This job expired on 26 September 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  26 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 September 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: Part time: 30 hours per week
• Contract type: Fixed term - Fixed term contract linked to funding
• Hourly rate: Grade C £12.56 p/hour

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking a Teaching Assistant to join our skilled TA team. Experience of working in a primary school classroom is desirable and the ideal candidate for this role will have good communication skills and a real enthusiasm and enjoyment of working with children to support them to be their very best. Experience of working with children with SEND would be an advantage.

This is a fixed term, variable hours contract linked to funding with initial hours of 30 hours per week, term time only.

The successful candidate will be:

· A caring and warm individual who is able to work effectively as part of a team

· Committed to their own professional development and continual self-review

· Committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of all children

· Able to build a strong rapport with children and have a developing understanding of the national curriculum

· An excellent classroom support with behaviour management skills

· Able to lead learning with individuals or groups of pupils

What the school offers its staff

As well as offering great schools to work in, wonderful children to work with, and fantastic colleagues to work alongside, our Trust is committed to providing colleagues with other benefits that make your employment with Kernow Learning the best it can be. We offer:

• A competitive salary and membership of Local Governmenrt Pension Scheme;
• A real commitment to wellbeing, including access to 24/7 wellbeing services and employee assistance programme;
• Access to discounts with national and local retailers and service providers;
• A range of CPD and training opportunities, both internally and externally, learning from local and national speakers and specialists to support your professional growth;
• The support and skills of our networks of colleagues both within our schools and our Shared Services teams.

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

Kernow Learning is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and follows the Safer Recruitment process. The successful candidate will be expected to share this commitment and will be required to undertake checks including an enhanced disclosure through the DBS process, prohibition, S128, and Social Media/online presence checks.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all.

Unfortunately, Kernow Learning is not a sponsoring organisation for overseas candidates. This means that the successful candidate will need to possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.

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Additional documents

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Teaching Assistant - Job Description.pdf - 240 KB (opens in new tab)

About Constantine Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 155 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Constantine Primary School website
• Email address: hr@kernowlearning.co.uk
• Phone number: 01637 303106
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/constantine-primary-school-falmouth

Our youngest pupils start with us at age 4 and our oldest leave us in year 6, aged 11, to go onto their new secondary schools. We believe that enjoyment and happiness is at the heart of achievement and success and our curriculum has been designed to be stimulating, exciting and inspiring in order to develop curious children with a thirst for learning.

We have adopted the values of Olympism: excellence, friendship, and respect. These values are complementary of our Trust Core Shared Values and Trust Philosophy of ‘work hard, be honest & help others’.

At Constantine Primary School we value everyone as individuals, recognising that everyone is unique and our skills and interests are varied. We are determined that our broad and balanced curriculum will help every child to unlock their potential.

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