14 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    18 July 2025 at 4pm

  • Date listed

    3 July 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£12.45 Hourly

Teaching Assistant KS2 job summary

Join Our Team as a Teaching Assistant at St Mary's CE VA Primary School!

Are you ready to make a difference in children’s lives while working in a supportive and inspiring environment? We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic HLTA to join our team.

  • Hours: 30 hours per week, 39 weeks per year

  • Salary: NJC Grade 3-4

About the Role:
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced TA or someone ready to step into the role with experience of working with children.

As an TA, you’ll support teachers by supporting agreed learning activities under their supervision. This may involve:

  • Supporting pupils either as individuals, groups, or whole classes.

  • Monitoring pupil progress and assessing, recording, and reporting on their achievements and development.

  • Working across all key stages.


At St Mary's, we believe in creating opportunities for children to thrive and grow into confident, successful adults. We want to empower every child to shape their own future and achieve their dreams.

What We Offer:

  • A positive, friendly, and supportive working environment.

  • A school community dedicated to achieving the best for every child.

  • National terms and conditions.

  • Membership in the Local Government Pension Scheme.

  • Continuing Professional Development opportunities.

  • Access to wellbeing initiatives and our Employee Assistance Programme.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Someone passionate about making a difference in children’s lives.

  • A team player with excellent communication and organisational skills.

  • Experience leading within the classroom, with the ability to motivate and inspire pupils.

  • Flexibility to work across all key stages.

Ready to Join Us?
Visits to our school are encouraged—we’d love to show you what makes us so special. To arrange a visit, please contact our school office.

For more information about us please have a look at our school website www.stmarysprimarykettering.co.uk

We only accept online applications via the My New Term website. Please complete your application before the closing date. Interviews may be held as applications are received, so we reserve the right to close the advert early.

St Mary’s CE VA Primary Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks to ensure their suitability for safeguarding children. Shortlisted candidates will have online searches carried out prior to interview.

Appointments are excluded from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applications must declare any convictions which for other purposes are “Spent” and in the event of employment, failure to disclose such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the school. Applicants must provide the information requested on a questionnaire sent at the time of short-listing and understand that the provisionally selected candidate for such posts will be required to apply for a Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure at the appropriate level. Any information will be treated confidentially.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to DBS checks along with other relevant employment checks to ensure their suitability for safeguarding children.
Appointments are excluded from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applications must declare any convictions which for other purposes are “Spent” and in the event of employment, failure to disclose such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the school. Any information will be treated confidentially.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
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About St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
266 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
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Would you like to work in a kind, caring and loving Church School Family? We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic, vibrant and dynamic teacher to join our passionate and supportive team in September.
We are looking for an engaging, fabulous teacher who wants to create an imaginative, structured and successful learning environment to ensure high quality outcomes for all our children. We have strong values throughout the school and have excellent pastoral care for all our children and staff. Experienced teachers will drive a subject area to ensure that the whole curriculum is valued and fully embedded. ECTs will benefit from a committed program of support from the school.
We are an Ofsted ‘Good’ school – September 2019, and a SIAMS "Outstanding" school - July 2016. "The school lives and breathes their values in everything they do". Our philosophy is child centred and we seek to enrich their lives through every activity and learning opportunity that they are given.

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