Teaching Assistant
Leesons Primary School, Orpington, Kent, BR5 2GA48 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
12 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 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
- £18,896.00 - £19,030.00 Annually (Actual) FTE £24,435 - £24,608
Teaching Assistant job summary
Vacancy: Teaching Assistant
Contract: Permanent
Grade: TSPT 4, 12-13 Points
Hours: 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
08:30 – 15:30 Monday - Friday
Salary: £18,896 - £19,030 (FTE £24,435 - £24,608)
Start date: September 2025
We are seeking a committed, hard-working and compassionate Teaching Assistant to join our experienced and supportive team. This is a varied role, and we are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about making a difference and passionate about supporting all children to thrive — academically, socially and emotionally.
The successful candidate will:
Provide support across the school day, including in-class support, leading small group interventions and delivering 1:1 support where needed.
Demonstrate flexibility and confidence in responding to the needs of individual pupils, including those with SEND or SEMH needs.
Take a nurturing, child-centred approach, with a strong pastoral focus, and a genuine desire to support the development of the whole child.
Be calm, patient and resilient, able to build positive relationships and support children who may be neurodivergent, have mental health needs, or have experienced trauma.
Work collaboratively with teachers and other staff to plan and deliver support that helps all children to access not just the curriculum, but the full life of the school.
Experience of working in a school setting is essential. A Level 3 (or equivalent) teaching support qualification and knowledge of SEND and effective strategies for supporting children with additional needs is highly desirable.
In return, we offer:
A warm, welcoming and inclusive school community
A dedicated and collaborative staff team
Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
The chance to make a genuine difference to children’s lives
If you are passionate about supporting children in a nurturing and inclusive environment, we would love to hear from you.
Our Schools/Trust and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. For all short-listed candidate’s, references will be requested in advance of interview and an online search will be carried out. The successful applicant will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure and checks regarding proof of ID, medical clearance and the right to work in the UK.
We are proud of our diversity and inclusive culture in our work place. We welcome all applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership.
If you would like to find out more about us please visit our school website: https://www.leesons.bromley.sch.uk/
You are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible as due to volumes and quality of applications received, the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Closing Date: midday on 12th September 2025
Interview Date: week commencing 15th September 2025
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 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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Leesons Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 319 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Leesons Primary School website
Leesons Primary School is set in an attractive grounds incorporating sports fields and a mature forest school developing opportunities for further outdoor learning and the Opal play curriculum. The school was expanded in 2014 and will be at full capacity as a two form entry primary school by September 2020. Recent building works have resulted in a new nursery, classroom block, hall and dance studio.
The school is a member of the Spring Partnership Trust multi academy trust and works especially closely with neighbouring schools of St Mary Cray Primary Academy and Midfield Primary School. Our executive Headteacher, Mrs Gulcin Sesli, supports the three Heads of School. The wider trust partnership of six schools offers many opportunities for professional development as well as mutual support. School leaders are currently working on a range of improvement strategies to further develop well being and raise standards across the trust.
The Spring Partnership Trust, partner schools:
Castlecombe Primary School, Mottingham, London, SE9 4AT
Dorset Road Infant School, Mottingham, London, SE9 4QX
Hayes Primary School, George Lane, Bromley, Kent, BR2 7LQ
Leesons Primary School, Orpington, Kent, BR5 2GA
Midfield Primary School, Grovelands Road, Orpington, Kent, BR5 3EG
St Mary Cray Primary Academy, Orpington, Kent, BR5 4AR
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