Teaching Assistant
The Priory School, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 2UR25 days remaining to apply
Start date details
May half term or September
Closing date
21 April 2026 at 12:59am
Date listed
27 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,796.00 - £24,796.00 Annually (FTE)
Teaching Assistant job summary
As a key member of the Learning Support department, you will work under the guidance of the SENCO and the Head of Inclusion, providing targeted support within our mainstream classrooms as well as contributing to the success of our Special Resources Provision (SRP). You will be part of a collaborative team focused on ensuring that every student has the tools they need to thrive in a secondary environment.
You will be a champion for our culture of high expectations, working directly with students to foster independence and resilience. By helping to adapt learning materials and implementing specific interventions, you will be the driving force behind removing academic and non-academic barriers to learning. Your role is central to our values-based ethos: ensuring that no student is left behind, regardless of their starting point or specific needs.
Acting as a consistent and supportive presence, you will help maintain the vital link between school and home. You will build positive, professional relationships with students and their families, ensuring that our support is not only effective but also compassionate and student centred.
Responsibilities:
The following areas of responsibility are for guidance only; they are neither comprehensive nor exhaustive:
- To have an understanding of students’ EHCPs and strategies to support them to achieve their goals.
- To establish constructive relationships with students and interact with them according to individual needs.
- - To set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.
- - To pro-actively encourage students to interact with others and engage in activities.
- - To provide feedback to students in relation to their progress and achievement.
- - Under the direction of the SENCO, work with identified students on developing their key academic and social skills to be able to access the curriculum.
- - To use and record relevant data to highlight the impact of interventions on students learning.
- - To use strategies, in liaison with teaching colleagues to support students achieve their learning goals.
- - To assist with the planning of appropriate learning activities that allow the student to access the curriculum.
- - To organise and run a range of extracurricular clubs/groups at lunchtime to support the development of social and academic needs.
Key Tasks
- To liaise with the class teacher to ensure a full understanding of leaning being delivered and the needs of the teaching group.
- To assist the teacher in planning and adapting the resources to meet the needs of identified students in the lesson.
- - To support the class teacher in the delivery of the learning by working with students to develop their resilience and independent skills in oral and written work; individual, small group or where directed withdrawal from the lesson.
- - To use department (Google) systems and documents to effectively feedback to teachers regularly on students’ needs and understanding in the lessons you support.
- - To be prepared to support some children working at a Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 level of development.
Communication
- Liaise with parents and carers as directed regarding the learning of identified students.
Professional development
- To attend all directed time meetings as identified by the SENCO.
- - To actively engage with the performance appraisal process.
Other specific responsibilities will be negotiated and agreed with the successful applicant.
This job description should be read in conjunction with the Statutory Requirements contained in the current version of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document and the expectations detailed in the Teachers’ Standards document 2012.
The law requires this position to have an enhanced criminal background check. This is to protect children and vulnerable adults and to safeguard positions of trust. The position is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. If your application is taken further you will be asked to declare details of any criminal record, even convictions that are ‘spent’ according to the act. If you are offered the post this information will be checked against Criminal Records Bureau files. You will be provided with full information at each stage.
Please note that The Priory School, Hitchin operates a no smoking policy.
The postholder is required to perform the duties above. They will be responsible to the Headteacher and will demonstrate a genuine commitment to our Equalities Policy and the wellbeing of all students.
This job description will be reviewed annually and will form the basis of the Performance Management Review (PAR) procedure. Any issues relating to the review of this job description should be brought to the Headteacher’s notice by the postholder through the senior line manager. The postholder will undertake the specific responsibilities as outlined above in order to fulfil our statutory requirements, school aims, policies and targets.
The post holder will be responsible to the Headteacher, through their line manager. They will demonstrate a commitment to the school’s equal opportunities policy..
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Priory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) as well as other pre-appointment checks outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2024).
To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Priory School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1242 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Priory School website
Why join The Priory School, Hitchin?
The Priory School is an oversubscribed, co-educational Foundation School serving over 1,200 students in the Hertfordshire town of Hitchin. As part of the Hitchin Sixth Form Consortium (alongside Hitchin Girls’ School and Hitchin Boys’ School), we also offer access to a vibrant post-16 community of over 800 learners.
Our values
At The Priory School, Hitchin, we are committed to empowering every child to meet their aspirations, to be self-confident, inspirational, and active members of their community whatever their background, ability, or circumstance. We achieve this by ensuring that every child at TPSH follows a rich and ambitious curriculum, is offered extensive extra-curricular and enrichment opportunities, and that they benefit from inspirational teaching, alongside dedicated pastoral care that provides a secure and caring environment.
We are incredibly proud of our students who are superb ambassadors for our school when representing us in Hitchin but also nationally, and internationally. We are proud to serve the entire community of Hitchin and as such, we have a number of exciting partnerships with local and national organisations.
Our staff are well-qualified, highly experienced, and dedicated to providing the very best education and pastoral care to every student. We all share the same values that are woven into our school’s culture: Responsibility, Respect, and Resilience.
Staff development and support
We are committed to providing high-quality professional development and support to all of our staff and understand that teachers and support staff are the decisive element in positively changing the lives of young people.
We recognise that teaching is a rewarding but pressured profession, as such, we are dedicated to maintaining a culture where staff wellbeing matters. In staff surveys, our staff consistently report that they are proud to work at The Priory School, Hitchin.
Facilities
Our school has some of the best facilities that you will find anywhere and we are lucky enough to sit on an expansive 27-acre site. We benefitted from a £1.6 million investment in our 3G football pitches in collaboration with Hitchin Belles Football Club, a £500,000 pavilion, revamped café, a new languages block, and our newly built Sixth Form centre which received a £2.8million investment. We also have ample on-site parking and are a short walk from Hitchin train station.
Working or living in Hitchin
Hitchin is a beautiful historic market town in North Hertfordshire, surrounded by lovely countryside, with a population of approximately 33,500. It has been voted in the ‘Top 10 Best Places to Live in the UK’ in The Times.
It has great transport links, being just two miles from the A1(M) and only 10 miles from the M1, and is in easy reach of London with Kings Cross station a mere 30 minutes away. There is also good access to the main rail routes to Cambridge.
The town is great for families with lots of activities for young people and their parents to participate in including sports and activities, youth organisations, performing arts and more. Hitchin also is well known in the area as a town for foodies with virtually every cuisine represented. Hitchin Festival runs throughout the month of July with over 100 different events celebrating the artistic, cultural and community life of the town.
Website: http://www.priory.herts.sch.uk/
Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tps_hitchin/
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