Teaching assistant - maternity cover

Shephalbury Park Primary School, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 8AX

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  20 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  16 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching assistant - maternity cover job summary

About the role

Are you looking to work at a forward thinking school where everyone is seen as a learner?

Are you motivated to develop professionally and personally?

A rare and fantastic opportunity has arisen at Shephalbury Park to join our committed, and friendly team. We are looking for a committed individual to work as a teaching assistant supporting learners in our school. You will have responsibility within the classroom. This role will be well supported and highly rewarding.

The role is envisaged as full time for 1 year to cover maternity leave, involving possible 1 to 1 support.

We are incredibly proud of our Ofsted inspection (October 2022), which recognises the good and outstanding provision that our whole learning community has contributed to creating over the last few years.

Our Shephalbury LEARNER attributes are at the heart of everything we do. As part of our learning community, you would harness those high aspirations for all.

We take the mental and physical well-being of our learners, staff and wider community very seriously, and are constantly developing and implementing new ideas to support the well-being of our entire learning community.

We are a popular one form entry school with many fantastic facilities. We have enviable grounds, a library, computing suite, and many other excellent resources to support high quality teaching and learning.

We are looking for someone who is committed to supporting our learners and their own self development. We want you to have a genuine commitment to help our learning community aspire and achieve; you should also have strong literacy, numeracy and interpersonal skills.

We are committed to providing a happy, safe, fun and secure environment in which every member of our learning community - learners, staff, parents and governors - feel valued and can flourish.

If the sound of this job excites and inspires you, then we would be delighted to welcome you to visit and see our fantastic school for yourself, to let our Shephalbury learners, staff and facilities speak for themselves. We look forward to meeting you!

Our school is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The school also promotes the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The recruitment process will select candidates for interview based on their suitability to the job description and person specification.

We reserve the right to interview and appoint candidates before the advertised closing date.

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 Shephalbury Park Primary School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 228 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Shephalbury Park Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/shephalbury-park-primary-school

Shephalbury Park is a one form entry community school in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

We pride ourselves on the relationships that we build with our families, our drive for continual school development and our determination to provide our community with a school that develops learners of all ages and abilities.

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