Teaching Assistant

Grove Road Primary School, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 5PD

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 2pm

• Date listed

  3 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,413.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (FTE) Salary is dependent upon skills, qualifications and experience H1.1 (Scale Point 2) to H3.2 (Scale Point 6) pro-rata.

Teaching Assistant job summary

Grove Road Primary School

Teaching Assistants (Reception & KS1)

If you saw a child chasing a shadow on the playground, would you...

A. Join in?

B. Ask them where the shadow comes from?

C. Teach them a similar game you used to play when you were at school?

If you answered A, B or C we would really like to hear from you!

We are keen to recruit experienced Teaching Assistants to join our Foundation and KS1 teams at Grove Road Primary School. If you have the skills to support teachers and pupil’s learning we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for 2 full time TA’s, Monday to Friday. Whilst experience is not essential it would be an advantage. The working hours will be 8:30am to 3:15pm, plus additional lunch duties as required. These will be fixed term contracts ending in July 2025.

We offer full induction and training and a warm and friendly team as well as enthusiastic and engaged learners.

Salary is dependent upon skills, qualifications and experience H1.1 (Scale Point 2) £24,413 to H3.2 (Scale Point 6) £25,989 pro-rata.

Grove Road Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; qualifications; identity (including online check) and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two references.

If you have lived outside the UK within the last 5 years, you will be required to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct or a police certificate from the country/countries you have resided in. Kindly note that this is at the expense of the candidate, as well as any costs involved for translating into English.

Further information can also be found on our school website. Please contact Mandy Lyons for further details and to arrange a visit.

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 Grove Road Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 454 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Grove Road Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/grove-road-primary-school-tring

Just 10 minutes up the A41 from Hemel Hempstead, Grove Road is a successful, 2 form entry, primary school in the heart of the Tring countryside. We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic teachers to join our talented team. Now part of a local Multi-Academy Trust, we can offer exciting learning opportunities as well as excellent induction and good career development.

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