14 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    5 January 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    10 December 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2

Working pattern

Part time: Start date: ASAP, 32.5 Hours per week - 8:30am - 3:30pm, Term time only - Permanent

Contract type

Permanent

Actual salary

£17,608 to £18,168 Per year

What skills and experience we're looking for

Start date: ASAP, 32.5 Hours per week - 8:30am - 3:30pm, Term time only - Permanent

Our friendly expanding school is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and self-motivated Teaching Assistant in Year 6. We have a lovely, hardworking team of staff and delightful pupils who deserve the best people working with them.

Katesgrove and Southcote are both Schools Direct Training Schools and are very supportive of staff wishing to develop future Teaching Careers through this programme.

The successful candidate will:

  • Have a sound working knowledge of supporting young children’s learning
  • Demonstrate good interpersonal skills with team members and parents
  • Have previous experience of working with young children and those with behaviour issues in particular
  • Have a good standard of spoken and written English
  • Undertake accredited training

The Kennet Federation aspires to be an actively anti-racist organisation. We recognise our aspiration as ongoing, involving collective commitment and accountability.

We welcome employees who are committed to and will actively contribute to our efforts to celebrate our cultural diversity and be resolute in advancing inclusion and equity. We encourage candidates who share our ambition to apply, and we welcome applications from those with protected characteristics

Visits to the school are welcomed and encouraged.

What the school offers its staff

Application packs can be downloaded from the school website - www.katesgroveprimaryschool.co.uk.

Applications considered on receipt and successful applicants will be invited for interview.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The appointment will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check, appropriate references and health clearance.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About Katesgrove Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
692 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11

Arranging a visit to Katesgrove Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email federationhr@katesgrove.reading.sch.uk.

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