Teaching Assistant

Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 8AH

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  10 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 May 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 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Are you looking for your next challenge?

Are you inspired, engaged and passionate about Special Educational Needs Education? Then join us at Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre, where we believe anything is possible!

The Governing Board of Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre seeks to appoint a Teaching Assistant to support teaching and learning in our Special Education Unit.

We seek applications from successful, experienced and reflective practitioners with experience working with pupils with special educational needs. Building a positive learning relationship with children with special educational needs is essential for this role.

Candidates will be confident and passionate teaching assistants who demonstrate high expectations, a flexible and resilient attitude to challenge and a commitment to providing the highest-quality learning opportunities that support the whole child's education.

Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education is a place that promotes a genuine love of learning. We want children to be excited about coming to school, engaged purposefully in their learning and able to articulate their views politely, respectfully and positively. We expect learning opportunities to be playful and irresistible and work closely as colleagues to continue developing and enhancing what is unique about what we do and how we do it. Our school vision is built on the principle that anything is possible.

We are a values-based school, and the successful candidate will have the interpersonal skills to model our school’s core values within a framework in which everyone is ambitious, innovative and inclusive.

Our school

Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre provides an innovative education to 2 to 7 years olds in the east of Luton, close to the Hertfordshire border. We are an oversubscribed and successful two-form entry infant school admitting 60 children annually. We are extremely well-resourced and keep children at the centre of everything we do. Our pupils are extremely keen to learn and participate, and we teach a rich and challenging curriculum that is constantly evolving.

We only recruit people who are passionate about making a difference to children’s lives; people who are highly reflective and challenge themselves to keep on improving. This means our working relationships can be relatively relaxed and informal. People love working here; we are warm, welcoming, positive, supportive and forward-looking. We have very high expectations of both children and adults.

As a Teaching Assistant at our school, you will:

• work in an extremely well-resourced school in which children are the focus of everything we do
• make a difference in the lives of our children and families daily
• work with a friendly team of highly inspiring staff who are supportive, caring and have a good sense of humour!
• receive an excellent training package consisting of both internal and external support

We can offer you:

• ­ an excellent professional development programme delivered by highly experienced colleagues
• ­ wonderful, enthusiastic and well-behaved pupils who are extremely keen to learn
• ­ high adult-to-child ratios
• ­ fantastic opportunities for career development
• ­ a school that genuinely invests in people
• ­ complimentary refreshments from our Staff Lounge
• ­ subsidised lunchtime meals provided by our onsite catering team
• ­ a Health Cash Plan, including subsidised dental and optical care

Applications from experienced colleagues and those working towards an accredited Teaching Assistant qualification are equally and warmly welcomed.

Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre believes that its workforce should reflect its community and that all groups within the community should have equal access to the school’s employment opportunities.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, disability, religion, beliefs, sexual orientation or age. We are also committed to improving flexible working opportunities, so we would encourage applicants who wish to work flexibly to apply, including those seeking job shares.

Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Visits to the school are strongly encouraged, so please contact us to arrange a time to see us in action. However, in the meantime, for further information about our wonderful school, please visit www.someriesinfants.co.uk.

Applicants for this public-facing post must demonstrate the ability to converse and provide effective help or advice in fluent spoken English.

The closing date for this position is Tuesday 10 June 2025.

Initial shortlisting will take place on Wednesday 11 June 2025 (candidates will be notified via MyNewTerm on this day if they have been shortlisted. This communication will contain details of your interview date and time).

Interviews will take place during on Thursday 19June 2025(please be advised that interviews will take place during the school day and may be scheduled until 5 p.m.)

Commitment to safeguarding

Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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 Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 286 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/someries-infant-school-and-early-childhood-education-centre

Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre provides an innovative education to 3 to 7 years olds in the east of Luton, close to the Hertfordshire border. We are an oversubscribed and successful two form entry infant school admitting 60 children per year. We are extremely well-resourced and keep children at the centre of everything we do. Our pupils are extremely keen to learn and participate and we teach a rich and challenging curriculum that is constantly evolving.

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