7 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    May 2025

  • Closing date

    2 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    22 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

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

£17,366.78 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant (Maternity Cover) job summary

Teaching Assistant Grade 4 (Occasional HLTA cover dependent on candidate experience) - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

30 hours per week, term time only

POST DETAILS

We are looking for a motivated and dedicated Teaching assistant to join our fabulous team. You would be required to support whole class learning in the classroom and also support children in small groups and on a 1:1 basis as required.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SCHOOL

William Shrewsbury Primary School is an amazing place to work. We are committed to understanding every child as an individual and meeting their needs effectively so that they can realise their limitless possibilities. We can offer an incredible team, a warm and nurturing work environment and development opportunities to support your own professional growth.

FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING THE POST

In addition to fulfilling the Person Specification, the successful candidate will:

  • be an ambitious and highly skilled classroom practitioner

  • support our belief that every child has the right to the best possible learning experience

  • be committed to providing learners with superb knowledge, skills and understanding through an irresistible learning adventure

  • have high aspirations for every child in our school, and strive to ensure that every second of their journey is magical, memorable and of the highest possible standard

  • be committed to their own professional learning

  • be able to contribute and support the school's relentless drive to enable limitless possibilities for every child

  • be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people

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.

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About William Shrewsbury Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
660 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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William Shrewsbury Primary is a vibrant, outward looking school with high standards and an excellent reputation within the local community. We are a large school with three forms of entry and a 52 place Nursery.

Our team of skilled and empowered senior and middle leaders plan a broad and exciting curriculum offer which includes many out of school activities. This is reflected in the many national awards the school has achieved at the highest levels and the school’s recent Ofsted report. The school is a popular and oversubscribed school with a very supportive and interested community of parents and governors.

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