Teaching Assistant - Forest School
Millbrook Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 7LB6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
20 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £2,488.60 - £2,527.96 Annually (Actual) 4.5 hours per week. (£24,404 - £24,790.00 - FTE)
Teaching Assistant - Forest School job summary
Do you want to make a difference? Do you love being outdoors, in all winds and weathers? Are you passionate about outdoor learning? Here at Millbrook we believe that our learners need an element of outdoor learning and adventure that meets their needs. Our Forest School works on the principles of 'classrooms without walls'.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:To support the delivery of forest schools and to support pupils as a teaching assistant in class when not required for Forest School sessions.
Person Specification
Sound literacy and numeracy.
Some previous experience of working with young people is desirable.
Some understanding of how pupils learn or experience of helping pupils with additional needs is desirable.
A commitment to the safety and welfare of young people and an understanding of the responsibilities that adults working with them have.
Good communication skills and team work.
Good inter personal skills that enable good relationships with young people and adults.
Sensitivity to pupil’s needs.
An ability to deal with pupils so that they feel they have been dealt with consistency and fairness.
An ability to earn pupils respect and to treat them with respect.
The ability to work as member of a team.
Good judgement over matters of confidentiality and integrity in dealing with sensitive information about pupils.
Patience Resilience Flexibility.
A non-judgemental disposition.
The ability to act as role model for young people.
Interest in developing one’s own skills and knowledge.
Millbrook Primary School and Cambrian Learning 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.
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’ community.
Millbrook Primary School and Cambrian Learning 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.
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’ community.
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
Millbrook 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 are not accepted.
About Millbrook Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 482 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Millbrook Primary School website
Millbrook Primary School
"Believe Achieve Succeed"
Our vision is to be recognised as an exceptional school, a school where every member strives to help each other to be their best each and every day.
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