Teaching Assistant

Nythe Primary School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN3 3RR

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  2 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.85 - £13.05 Hourly NJC SCP 5 - 6

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant

Hours of work - Part Time or full time applications welcome

Term time only plus inset days (39 weeks per year)

Fixed Term – Until August 2026

Salary; SCP 5-6

Start date: 1st September

Nythe Primary School is looking to appoint an outstanding teaching assistant who is resourceful, enthusiastic and self-motivated. We would like someone with a tolerant and compassionate nature, a sense of humour and the ability to work both on their own and as part of our supportive team.

Our ideal candidate would be:

• An outstanding teaching assistant with experience of supporting children with special educational needs.
• Fully committed to inclusion.
• Friendly, positive, flexible and energetic.
• Someone with high expectations.
• A team player.
• Able to complete observations and assessments, and support with record keeping.
• Able to run interventions with instruction from the class teacher

In return we offer:

• A committed, hardworking and friendly team,
• A supportive leadership team.
• Opportunities for professional development.
• Use of a dedicated, well resourced intervention space.
• Use of a fully-resourced sensory room.

As an Academy we work within the support of Excalibur Academies Trust, which offers our employees many wide ranging opportunities for future professional development.

Closing date: 2nd July 2025

Interviews: W/C 7th July

Nythe Primary School and Excalibur Academies Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed.

Safeguarding Statement

Excalibur Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is proud to serve a diverse student and parent community. The aims of the Trust’s recruitment policy are to ensure that the best possible staff are recruited on the basis of their merits, abilities and suitability for the position; to ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently; to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, disability or age; and to ensure that the School meets its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment checks.

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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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Nythe Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 193 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Nythe Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/nythe-primary-school-swindon

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