Teaching Assistant & MSA

Spixworth Infant School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR10 3PX

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Required for September 2025

• Closing date

  11 August 2025 at 1am

• Date listed

  21 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.84-£13.05 (TA) £12.26(MSA)

Teaching Assistant & MSA job summary

Part of the CARE Federation

Tel: 01603 898483

Email: business@carefed.org.uk

Website: www.spixworth.norfolk.sch.uk

Executive Headteacher: Ms H. Jordan

• Salary: £12.84 - £13.05 per hour (TA) & £12.26 per hour (MSA)
• Permanent
• Part time
• 27.5 hours TA & 5 hours MSA per week
• Term time + 1 week
• Starting September 2025

At The CARE Federation, we live by our values of CARE: Community, Adventure, Respect and Excellence.

We are looking to appoint a Teaching Assistant and Midday Supervisory Assistant to join our successful team, based at Spixworth Infant School. You will work with children across the Infant Key Stages, providing high quality TA support to our children. The position is available now and we are aiming for a September start date.

Applicants will ideally have experience of working within a Primary school environment and be able to demonstrate their ability to work in an inclusive, nurturing, flexible and proactive way. 

We can offer: 

• Children with huge potential
• Caring families
• Dedicated and friendly staff that take pride in their work and are a strong, committed team
• Supportive, approachable leaders
• A whole school commitment to child-centred education
• Spacious, purposeful learning environments 
• Appropriate training and CPD to enable you to be your best 

 The successful candidate will:

• Be qualified to NVQ 2 or equivalent
• Have an inclusive and reflective mind-set
• Have a strong commitment to supporting the whole child
• Be patient, calm and caring
• Understand that children come from a range of contexts with a range of experiences and value these
• Have a desire and the capability to ensure that children achieve their potential
• Have a secure understanding of supporting the Primary curriculum
• Be able to establish positive and supportive relationships with children, parents and colleagues
• Be a role model in their attitude to others and in their conduct around school, relentlessly positive to everyone 
• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to use own initiative
• Have strong numeracy and literacy skills
• support the wider life of the school through after school activities and events 

As the appointment is taking place within the school holiday, visits to the schools may not always be possible. Please email any questions or view our website to find out more about our schools.

 How to apply

To view the job description and person specification, please see ‘Attachments'.

To download an application form, click the ‘Apply for Job’ button.

Completed applications should be returned via email to business@spixworth.norfolk.sch.uk

Closing date: 11 August 2025, 9am

Interview date: 15 August 2025

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.”

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

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 Spixworth Infant School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 121 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Spixworth Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/spixworth-infant-school

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