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Teaching Assistant Grade 2 - St James Catholic Primary

St James Catholic Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B45 9BN

23 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  11 August 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 15 hours per week, term time only Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Actual salary: Grade 2: Actual Salary £8649 - £9356

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will be:

• Supportive of the school’s distinctive Catholic nature
• A highly-skilled teaching assistant
• Enthusiastic
• Highly organised
• Committed to achieving the highest standards
• Reflective
• Committed to their own professional development
• NVQ Level 2 or 3 in childcare or an equivalent qualification

What the school offers its staff

We can offer:

• A supportive and caring learning environment which aims to promote and develop expertise of all staff through a commitment to CPD.
• Enthusiastic and friendly children who respond well to encouragement and challenge and have a love for learning.
• Excitement and challenge with varied opportunities from our collaborative networking within the Lumen Christi MAC and local schools.
• An Outstanding school (Ofsted September 2024, RE Section 48 May Inspection 2019)

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

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare
Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. Shortlisted candidates will be
subject to online checks, in line with KCSiE Sept 2022.

Applying for the job

Please complete the online application.

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About St James Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 210 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St James Catholic Primary School website
• Email address: c.tullett@lumenchristi.org.uk
• Phone number: 0121 675 5344
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-james-catholic-primary-school

St James’ Catholic School is a thriving and vibrant one-form entry primary school in its community. Being a fully inclusive school, we value every individual and the contributions they make. We want our children to experience the pleasure of achieving personal academic successes, linked to a strong sense of morality and fairness, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ within our Christian faith. At the school’s last Section 48 inspection in May 2019, St James’ was judged to be an ‘Outstanding’ Catholic school.

‘The school’s mission, ‘In the loving peace, justice and joy of Jesus, we achieve,’ is at the heart of its daily life and is understood and put into practice by everyone in the community.’

Section 48 / May 2019

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