Teaching Assistant - Northstowe Primary School

Northstowe Learning Community, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 1DJ

25 days remaining to apply

Start date details
Spring Term 2025
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 8am
Date listed
27 January 2025

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £10,897.00 - £12,264.00 Annually (Actual) Meridian Trust Support Staff pay table, Grade 4, Points 3-5

Teaching Assistant - Northstowe Primary School job summary

Salary: Meridian Trust Support Staff pay table, Grade 4, Points 3-5 (£24,027 – £24790 FTE)

Hours of work: 20-22.5 hours per week (across 5 days), 38 weeks per year (term time only with 2-3 additional days agreed each year). The ideal working pattern in 8:30am to 1pm, Monday to Friday, however there is some flexibility with how hours can be worked. The role includes lunchtime supervision as part of the expected duties.

We have an exciting opportunity for a kind, curious and hardworking individual to join our support staff team as a part-time Teaching Assistant at the newly opened Northstowe Primary School. Working within a small team, our Teaching Assistants aid the learning of our children in the classroom through effective support of the class teacher. As a small group of staff in a brand-new school, we all have to go the extra mile however, we promote and support a good work life balance, and we are a kind and supportive team.

In September 2024, Northstowe Primary School opened with the first intake of Reception aged children and our Sixth Form Provision welcomed its first young adults into Year 12. Northstowe Secondary College was built in 2019 and is the cornerstone of the Northstowe Learning Community, an all-through school from 2024, catering for students aged 4-19. Northstowe Secondary College opened to just 71 students but is now over-subscribed with students in Years 7-11. The secondary school has grown year on year, and it will continue to grow until it reaches its full capacity of 1,800 places for students aged 11-16, with a further 400 places available for sixth form students. We are also lucky enough to have the Martin Bacon Academy, an area Special School, on our campus that also caters for children aged 4-19.

You will be part of an experienced and growing team of teaching and support staff working to create an inclusive, innovative and aspirational learning environment for the young people and families within the community we serve.

Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities.

Our proven approach over more than a decade has elevated us to a respected and admired academy trust, a national leader in education and a source of great pride to the communities we serve. The Trust currently operates 30 schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff. To find out more about the Trust, please visit: www.meridiantrust.co.uk

The Opportunity

To join an experienced, fun and enthusiastic team of individuals

To be involved in the setting up and growth of a new primary school within the Northstowe community.

To make a real difference to the positive experience of our pupils and families.

Excellent CPD provision for all staff, working in collaboration and sharing best practice across the trust.

The ideal candidate

Have a good educational background.

Have a positive attitude and approach to work.

Have experience of working with or supporting children with additional needs.

Have the ability to make and sustain positive working relationships with children.

Be knowledgeable in child protection matters.

Demonstrate the school’s core values of kind, curious and hardworking.

Benefits of working for us:

As a multi-academy trust of 30 schools, Meridian Trust can provide a wide network of opportunities for collaboration and career development for both teaching and support staff. With an initial teaching training facility and a teaching hub network within our Trust, there are ample opportunities to both, get into teaching, and develop within the profession.

As well as the above we also offer:

Unlimited access to CPD via Meridian Learning

Free annual eye tests

Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme, offering mental health and wellbeing support

Unlimited value cycle to work scheme

To see the full range of benefits available, please visit Employee Benefits - Meridian Trust

Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities.

How to apply:

Please submit an application form and a letter of application /supporting statement of at least 1 side of A4 (via My New Term) outlining why you would like to work for NLC. In line with safer recruitment practices, we are unable to accept CVs. If you have any questions about this process or would like to arrange a visit to the school, please contact Sarah Wakerley, HR Officer on recruitment@northstowe.education

Closing date for applications is Monday, 24thFebruary 2025 (by 8am). However, early applications are encouraged because applicants may be shortlisted and invited for interview before half term (17th – 21st February).

Interview date: To be arranged.

The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.

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.