Teaching Assistant

Wantage Church of England Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8DJ

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  18 September 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  10 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,185.00 - £25,584.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary NJC Grade 4 SCP 4-5 (£17,835 - £18,116.86) 31.25 weekly hours

Teaching Assistant job summary

We have a vacancy for an enthusiastic and committed Teaching Assistant to join Wantage CE Primary School. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be a part of a developing team and outstanding learning for our children. The role will include providing learning support in class and supervising lunchtimes.

We are looking for teaching assistants who:

have excellent communication, numeracy and literacy skills

have high expectations for all children and a strong belief that all children can flourish

demonstrate an ability to nurture and support all pupils, including those with complex learning, emotional or other needs

are committed to ensuring all pupils make excellent progress and model our school values and ethos in all that they do

have excellent interpersonal skills and are able to communicate well, and work successfully, with colleagues, parents and pupils

What we offer:

An exciting opportunity to join our school.

A commitment to your professional development through access to networks and training

A caring and inclusive school with attractive and purposeful learning environments

Career opportunities as part of a successful, supportive and locally based multi-academy trust

and a team who prioritise a healthy work-life balance

The Cambrian Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information. The Cambrian Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.

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

SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
Wantage CE Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.

Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.

The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.

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.

About Wantage Church of England Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 405 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wantage Church of England Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wantage-church-of-england-primary-school

Pupils at Wantage CE Primary School are safe, happy and enjoy their learning. We are well-supported by the Vale Academy Trust, governors, the local church, parents, and the wider community. This allows us to offer our pupils a broad and balanced curriculum that enables pupils to flourish and to live life to the full.

We are pleased to offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities including sports clubs such as judo, rugby, netball, tennis, frisbee, water-polo, tri-golf and ‘quad kids’ athletics. We are very proud of our sporting successes and the ever-increasing percentage of children who take part in a wide range of sports. We achieved the Schools Sports Mark Platinum Award this year, an accolade which we are proud of. We also competed in several local maths competitions and ran popular computing and robotics clubs.

We have a rich tradition of music at Wantage CE. Every year, Year 3 learn a brass instrument; and individual instrument lessons take place in all years including flute, keyboard, piano, drums and guitar. Gordon Campbell, VAT music specialist, teaches one day a week, leading Key Stage choirs and whole-school singing.

Our church links are very important to us. A team from church present a weekly Open the Book assembly and join us for collective worship. We attend church each term and we look forward to the Prayer Space team who visit us twice a year. Our Year 5 pupils enjoy the dedicated support of the nuns from St Mary’s Convent Wantage in helping them to understand the deeper meaning and significance of the Passion play which the pupils write, produce and perform every Easter.

Staff development continues to remain at the heart of Wantage CE Primary School. We have two staff who have completed their teacher training and are now teaching full time with us, we employed the first apprentice TA in the trust (he is performing extremely well), and this year we have a TA who has progressed to train as a SCITT with us.

School staff, parents and governors have together formulated a distinctive Christian vision for the school. Excellence for all in an environment of love, respect, hope, forgiveness and courage; where every pupil flourishes and lives life to the full.

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