Teaching Assistant – Level 1

Minerva Primary Academy, Bristol, BS16 4HA

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 December 2025

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,511 - £21,267

Teaching Assistant – Level 1 job summary

Job Title: Teaching Assistant – Level 1

Actual Annual Salary: £19,511 - £21,267 Based on hours and weeks worked

Full Time Equivalent Salary: £25,941 - £28,275 (CLF Grade B) Based on full time hours, all year round.

Contract Type: Fixed term until 31/08/2026

Hours: 32.5 hours per week - Part Time, Term Time Only plus Inset days

Working Pattern: 6.5 hours per day - Monday to Friday

Potential Start Date: 1 December 2025

An opportunity to empower students to reach their full potential by delivering tailored support that enhances learning, engagement, and well-being:

Support students by adopting relevant strategies and techniques to enable them to access the curriculum, engage with their learning and achieve their full potential. Takes responsibility for implementing planned learning activities/ teaching programmes as agreed with the teacher, adjusting activities according to students’ responses as appropriate. Deliver measurable impact on student attainment as well as social and emotional well-being. Works collaboratively with relevant colleagues to fulfil the requirements of the role.

About you:

You will:

• Be committed to being part of a high performing school that has high expectations.

• Continuously be committed to improving the life chances of pupils.

• Always be committed to own self development and resilient to the challenges of working in a single form entry school.

• Be committed to seeing feedback as a gift and strive to be better every day.

• Stay committed to the wider success of the school and community.

• Have experience of, or willingness to embrace working in a single form entry school is essential.

• Have an understanding of classroom roles and responsibilities and how a teaching assistant supports students in their learning.

• Be able to engage students and manage behaviour on a one to one or small group basis.

• Be committed to undertake relevant qualifications, e.g. Relevant nvq level 2/ 3 in supporting teaching and learning or equivalent, first aid qualification, to ensure ongoing professional development.

• Be able to engage students and manage behaviour on a one to one or small group basis.

• Have strong interpersonal skills, in particular with the ability to demonstrate empathy and active listening.

• Have good planning and organisational skills, specifically with regard to learning activities and support materials.

• Be someone with a keen interest in working with children and commitment to inclusion and acceptance of all.

Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.

About Minerva Primary Academy:

Minerva Primary Academy is a happy and successful school. We are a popular two-form entry primary school located in Fishponds, Bristol with a committed staff and a purpose-built modern building and unique playground. Our school ethos is 'Learning, Believing, Growing, Achieving' and everything we do is underpinned by our high expectations and a love of lifelong learning. To support our children to understand themselves as effective learners, we explicitly teach and promote seven learning dispositions: self-agency, growth mindset, perseverance, being curious and creative, making connections and collaborating.

We are committed and passionate about providing our children with the best possible start to their education. We encourage all children to be Minerva Global Citizens who are safe, responsible, respectful and an active citizen within our community. We value creativity and the arts and have strong links with Bristol Beacon.

Why work at CLF?

We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. Over 71% of the pupils who attend Minerva Primary Academy are from global majority groups, so we particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the pupils we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age disability, sexual orientation or religion.

We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

What we can offer you:

• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

• Comprehensive induction and ongoing support for career development and wellbeing.

• Sector-leading professional development entitlement and opportunities.

• Collaboration with colleagues across the trust through subject communities and specialist networks.

• Shared CLF curriculum, written and curated by trust experts, reducing individual teacher workload.

• Career enhancing and progression opportunities within the trust and through the CLF Institute.

• A collaborative culture which supports workload.

• Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.

• Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.

• A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.

• Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking and many more!

Recruitment timeline:

• Closing Date: 3 November 2025 @11.59pm
• Shortlisting date: 4 November 2025
• Interviews: 11 November 2025

We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.

As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.

Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.

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 Minerva Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 367 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Minerva Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/minerva-primary-academy

At Minerva Primary Academy we believe that all children deserve the best teaching for learning opportunities every day, with their needs met and a love of learning they will achieve great outcomes. We want all children to be confident, curious, adaptable and independent learners who can use these learning skills now and as they progress through their education and beyond. 

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