Teaching Assistant

Fairlands Middle School, Cheddar, Somerset, BS27 3PG

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 August 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  29 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share): 32.5 Hrs Per Week
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 Year
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,027

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Confident, caring and friendly attitude

• Excellent communication skills, competently liaising with parents and other professionals

• Flexibility, teamwork, and supportive of other practitioners in the setting

• Commitment to maintaining a safe, secure and nurturing environment

• Good understanding of how children learn

• Commitment and passion to promoting the ethos and values of the school and getting the best outcomes for all children

What the school offers its staff

• Professional induction, training and continued professional development opportunities.

• Staff benefits including reduced leisure centre membership and cycle to work scheme.

• A staff assistance programme with specialist provider, CareFirst who provide a 24/7 free phone helpline, or face-to-face counselling for every employee in the Wessex family.

• Exciting opportunities as part of a growing multi-academy Trust.

• Local Government Pension Scheme with a generous employer contribution in excess of 20%, subject to pension eligibility criteria.

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

This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

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About Fairlands Middle School

• School type: Academy, ages 9 to 13
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 411 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 9 to 13
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Fairlands Middle School website
• Email address: office@fairlandsmiddleschool.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/fairlands-middle-school-cheddar

Fairlands Middle School is a coeducational middle school with pupils aged between 9 and 13, located in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The school, was established in 1976, Fairlands is a middle-deemed-secondary school, meaning that it takes pupils of secondary school age while providing both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 education. Fairlands is part of the Wessex Learning Trust.

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