Teaching Assistant

Northborough Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE6 9BN

9 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  22 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,584.00 - £27,711.00 Annually (FTE) Salary will be pro rata based working hours

Teaching Assistant job summary

Working hours and contracts available:

• 26.25 hours per week (1 position)
• 13.75 hours per week (2 positions, one is a fixed term contract until 31/8/2026)

Hours to be worked between 9am to 3.30pm, Monday to Friday, term time.

Northborough Primary School is a caring and welcoming village school, set at the heart of a supportive community. We are a dedicated team with hardworking and enthusiastic children.

We are part of the Soke Education Trust – a Multi Academy Trust (MAT) which includes Alderman Jacobs Primary School, Wittering Primary School, John Clare Primary School, Gunthorpe Primary School and Werrington Primary School.

What are we looking for?

Someone who has:

• Excellent classroom practice and high expectations
• The skills, potential and ambition to be an outstanding practitioner
• A passion to make a positive difference to our children and their families
• The ability to work as part of a team to motivate and inspire
• A child centred approach
• A positive attitude to challenge
• An approachable manner and a sense of humour!

We can offer you:

• Friendly, hard-working and well-behaved young learners
• A caring and supportive whole school team
• A genuine commitment to your professional development
• A well-resourced and caring learning environment
• Career development and support through the SOKE Education Trust
• Strong focus on pupil and staff wellbeing
• An idyllic location with an orchard which supports outdoor learning experiences

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and if you wish to visit please contact the School Office.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff to share this commitment. A satisfactory DBS and employment checks will be required as part of this recruitment.

In your application, please indicate your preference to the working hours available.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Northborough Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 176 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Northborough Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/northborough-primary-school

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