Teaching Assistant
Kingswood Primary School, London, SE27 9RD25 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Part time: Monday to Wednesday
Contract type
- Fixed term - 2 terms
Pay scale
- Scale 3 – spine point 5-6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications
- Numeracy and literacy qualification at NVQ level 2, or equivalent, or enrolled on a course working towards this.
- Completion of DfES Teacher Assistant Induction Programme.
- Participate in development and training opportunities.
Experience
- Working with or caring for children or relevant age.
Knowledge/ Skills
- Appropriate knowledge of first aid.
- Use basic technology – computer, video, photocopier.
- Ability to relate well to children and adults.
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
Safeguarding
- Displays commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people, and has an up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with, and the protection of, children and young people.
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Kingswood Primary School?
- A supportive, friendly and collaborative staff team.
- A commitment to professional development for all staff.
- A school culture rooted in inclusion, wellbeing and high expectations.
Further information about the job
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Kingswood Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kingswood Primary School website
- Email address
- office@kingswoodprimary.co.uk
- Phone number
- 0208 6703576
Kingswood is an inclusive and vibrant school, located at the heart of our local community. We value and celebrate our local ties, building strong partnerships with all our stakeholders. At Kingswood Primary, we ensure that our values, through our Kingswood Values: Kindness, Resilience, Empathy and Respect, are at the heart of our interactions and relationships with our entire school community.
At Kingswood, we affirm the boundless potential of every individual to achieve excellence. We seek to establish rich learning opportunities, which inspire progress, celebrate effort and challenge underachievement. We are relentless in our efforts to remove barriers to all children achieving. We consider the well-being and empowerment of our children, as central to this aim. Our work is to ensure that Kingswood children can identify examples of excellence around them and that they are able to recognise their own brilliance in these examples.
As a school community we believe we are most empowered when every child, irrespective of background is able to
build their self-esteem, by recognising excellence in themselves. During current and future challenges, we remain
determined to maintain and refine our practice as a wholly inclusive place of learning. We are and will continue to be an environment within which every child not only feels happy and safe but also has opportunity to thrive.
At Kingswood, we value the voices of all members of our school partnership. We enjoy a rich tradition of parental
support and professional dialogue, toward maximising positive outcomes for children. Our curriculum and vision is
broad, balanced, relevant and ‘futures-focused’. We seek to support our children in their journey as lifelong learners, through enriching exchanges and an environment that is attractive, stimulating and inspiring.
We continue to dedicate ourselves toward providing rich opportunities for learning in the present, whilst preparing
our children for dynamic and successful futures in an ever-changing world.
Arranging a visit to Kingswood Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@kingswoodprimary.co.uk.
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