Teaching Assistant - English Martyrs Catholic Primary School

English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Reading, Berkshire, RG30 4BE

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 October 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: 31.25 hours a week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £18,028 to £18,606 Per year

What skills and experience we're looking for

31.25 hours per week (normally 8.30am to 3.15pm) - Term time only

We currently have a vacancy for a Teaching Assistant, to join our committed and highly professional team. We are looking to appoint a caring team player, with a flexible attitude who can respond to the needs of our children. Training will be given, and you will be supported by our dedicated team.

We have two classes per year group from Reception to Year 6, as well as a Nursery (term time). Our school community is wonderfully and richly diverse with families from all over the world, of all faiths and none.

English Martyrs promotes high achievement and strives to develop each child’s full potential.

The ideal candidate will:

•Be able to work as a team, to ensure safe and effective provision at all times

•Be patient, calm and have a positive approach at all times when interacting with the children

•Be enthusiastic, flexible and imaginative

•Have previous experience of working with young children

•Hard working, self-reflective and passionate about creating opportunities for children to flourish

•Have a good standard of spoken and written English and Maths

What the school offers its staff

Our offer:

•Local Government Pension Scheme (Berkshire Pensions)

•5, 10 and 20 year service awards

•Employee Assistance Programme

We are very proud of our welcoming and inclusive school, and we would love to show you around. Please email or call for an appointment to visit

For further information, please visit our website where you can download the application form: https://www.englishmartyrs.reading.sch.uk alternatively, please email:sbm@englishmartyrs.reading.sch.uk Applications will be considered upon receipt and interviews arranged accordingly.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. This role requires an enhanced DBS check and we may conduct a online search for successful candidates. CVs will not be accepted; please request an application pack via the above email or download one from our website. We are an equal opportunities employer.

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

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 421 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School website
• Email address: sbm@englishmartyrs.reading.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-reading

We are an inclusive and welcoming school set in lovely wooded grounds on the western side of Reading. We have two classes per year group as well as a nursery class.
OFSTED told us in July 2019 that we are a good school with "a passion and a determination to provide the best possible education for the children in your care."
They also said that "pupils love their welcoming school and say that it is easy to make friends at English Martyrs. They say that they feel safe in school and know who to talk to if they have any worries."

We welcome enquiries and would love to meet you for a chat and a tour of the school.

Arranging a visit to English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sbm@englishmartyrs.reading.sch.uk.

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