Teaching Assistant for September 2025

South Moreton Primary School, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 9AG

22 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  15 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  2 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,404.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant for September 2025 job summary

We are a happy, positive community, with a strong teaching and support team. Our staff at all levels actively seek best practice from the world of education, and use it to innovate and work creatively in classrooms. We commit to the development of our teaching and support staff so that they become experts in their interests. We have a great reputation locally and wider across the county.

As a Teaching Assistant in our team, you will provide learning support and care to our wonderful, well-behaved pupils, under the direction of the class teacher. This may include support for children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities, and we would be particularly keen to hear from candidates who hold current experience that could support our pupils.

You will be a source of stability and enthusiasm for our pupils, keen to make a difference, and a great team-player. Previous experience preferred, along with a commitment to growth and professional development.

We reserve the right to appoint and close the recruitment process prior to the closing date of Friday 11th July 2025. Please send us your application as soon as possible.

For further details, job description and application form please see vacancy information on our website www.south-moreton.oxon.sch.uk.

We are happy to show you around the school or give you a call to discuss the position at any time.

South Moreton Primary School and the Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post involves the type of work with children and young people that requires applicants to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All safer recruitment checks are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed. Online checks are also made of candidates prior to appointment.

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 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 South Moreton Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 116 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: South Moreton Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/south-moreton-primary-school

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