Teaching Assistant
Long Furlong Primary School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1XPThis job expired on 20 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
2 September 2025
Closing date
20 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 June 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: 8:30 am – 3:30 pm, Mon-Fri, term-time only
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year
Hourly rate
- £11.98 – £12.18 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our vision:is for all Long Furlong Primary School pupils to be enthusiastic, lifelong learners who thrive because they feel loved, accepted and valued. Long Furlong pupils care for each other and the world around them.
Our strategic aims:a caring and enabling environment; a culture of aspiration and ambition; determined and professional teaching; empowered leadership throughout; a progressive, communicative school.
Long Furlong Primary School has a rare opportunity to join our team of class Teaching Assistants. We wish to appoint an enthusiastic and committed individual with experience of interacting with young children.
We are looking for an applicant who:
- Has the ability to work as part of a team, building relationships with children, staff and parents
- Has a talent for nurturing the emotional wellbeing of children
- Has patience, resilience and a positive mindset
- Is able to assist pupils in their day-to-day learning
- Can promote independence, and employ strategies to recognise and reward positive behaviour
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- Delightful pupils
- Supportive colleagues and governors
- Line management from a highly skilled and experienced SENCo
- Training to support the successful applicant in carrying out the duties
- Parents who actively support their children’s learning in a variety of ways
- A modern, well-resourced and easily accessible school building
This role is ideally suited to applicants who can quickly establish a good rapport with pupils and colleagues.
A 30-minute unpaid lunch break is timetabled each day
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Oxfordshire Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post involves the type of work with children and young people that requires applicants to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All users are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed. Online and social media checks are carried out.
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About Long Furlong Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 216 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Long Furlong Primary School website
- Email address
- office.2602@long-furlong.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01235532358
Long Furlong is a one-form entry school in a suburban setting which sits in the middle of the catchment area that it serves.
Arranging a visit to Long Furlong Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office.2602@long-furlong.oxon.sch.uk.
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