Teaching Assistant

Parkwood Primary School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 9LP

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  After Easter

• Closing date

  14 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,337.00 Annually (Actual) £18,877 Working 30hrs hours per week. 39 weeks per year (£25,136 FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

The Role

As a Teaching Assistant, you will work with our teaching and other support staff to help identify pupils within vulnerable groups, specifically those with special needs. You are key to helping them become independent learners, stay focused and engaged in the tasks and lessons set by the teacher, and help explain different tasks and activities.

You will assist with a wide range of classroom and school-based activities, providing 1:1 and group support to pupils. This may include listening to children read, reading to them, or telling them stories.

Throughout the day, you will help prepare the classroom and learning spaces, create displays and exhibitions of the children's work, and prepare for different activities.

You will support pupils who need extra support to complete tasks or who have difficulty engaging with schoolwork. You will also watch for challenging behaviour and help pupils promote positive behaviour. You will also offer emotional support to help pupils in their emotional and social development, and you inform other staff about any issues.

About You

You will be passionate about ensuring all children are supported to do their best. You will be trustworthy, enthusiastic, full of energy, well-organised, and self-motivated.

You will also have excellent communication skills and be able to build a strong and appropriate rapport with children and parents/carers.

You need to have very good numeracy and literacy skills and be passionate about making learning irresistible for children. You should also be able to adapt where necessary to support children’s individual needs.

You will also need to be able to maintain confidentiality, have a high level of professionalism, and be committed to improving your own practice.

Ideally, you will have experience working with children across the primary curriculum, including those with social, emotional, and mental health needs.

About Us

We are proud to offer:

• An ambitious school management team committed to staff professional learning.
• Dedicated, professional and determined staff.
• Highly motivated, happy children, keen to learn and develop
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing.
• Excellent resources and vibrant teaching spaces.

Potential candidates are invited to contact the school office to arrange a visit to the school. This does not form part of the recruitment process.

Safer Recruitment, Inclusive and Diversity

The Primary First Trust is committed to safeguarding, Prevent and the welfare of pupils and this post is subject to an Enhanced DBS Clearance, health clearance, social media checks, a probationary period and satisfactory references.

The Trust strives to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where everyone feels able to be themselves and experiences a strong sense of belonging.

The Trust wholeheartedly supports the principle of equality and diversity in employment. It opposes all forms of unfair or unlawful discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sex. We encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and career development of people from ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds from as wide a range as possible, and we seek to develop a community of staff that accurately represents society as a whole. All applications for employment with the Trust will be considered against the criteria outlined in the person specification for the position advertised.

No agencies, please. We will contact you if we need support on recruitment.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Parkwood Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 540 pupils
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Parkwood Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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