Teaching Assistant Level 1 -2 - Deaf Hub

St John Fisher Catholic High School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 5JN

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  16 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  3 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,291.00 - £22,249.00 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant Level 1 -2 - Deaf Hub job summary

St John Fisher Catholic High School is an 11-18 comprehensive school with a rich Catholic ethos. There are 800 students on roll including the Sixth Form.

The Governors of this thriving and increasingly successful Catholic comprehensive school seek to appoint Teaching Assistants to work within our Deaf Hub. The successful applicant will be required to work 34½ hours a week which includes 2 hours a week for CPD, school visits out of hours (full time), term time only. These roles involve:

Assisting students in our Deaf hub with their studies within and beyond the classroom.

Experience of Foundation / Early Years

Willingness to learn BSL (British Sign Language - no prior knowledge needed)

Assist Teacher of the Deaf to develop the deaf culture in school

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 St John Fisher Catholic High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 828 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St John Fisher Catholic High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-john-fisher-catholic-high-school-peterborough

A voluntary-aided comprehensive rated Good by Ofsted in 2017

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