Teaching Assistant

St Andrew's School, Cromer, Norfolk, NR11 8QA

4 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  31 August 2025 at 1am

• Date listed

  26 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13.69 per hour

Teaching Assistant job summary

Tel: 01263 837927

Email: juliejackson@standrewsschool.co.uk

Web: standrewsschool.org.uk

HT: Adrian Crossland

NOR 60 | 6-16 years old

• Salary: £13.69 per hour
• Permanent
• Full time
• Term Time + 1 week

 St Andrew’s School is a small independent school which caters for pupils with social and communication difficulties and specialises in working with pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

We currently have a vacancy for a full-time Teaching Assistant to join our committed and hardworking staff team from September 2025 (or as soon as possible there after) on a permanent basis.

We are looking for someone who: 

·      Is compassionate, caring and has lots of patience

·      Has some experience of working with pupils who have social and communication difficulties or pupils who have ASD

·      Can be adaptable, resourceful and use their own initiative to enable learning

·      Is able to work as part of a team

·      Has the ability to motivate and inspire the pupils to learn

We are able to offer you:

·      Continued Professional Development opportunities

·      A beautiful North Norfolk rural setting

·      Two week half term breaks in October and February

·      Wellbeing support (including access to GP services 24 hours a day, physiotherapy and counselling)

·      A friendly, caring staff team

·      Unique and diverse students

If you feel that you have the qualities that it takes to work with our special young people we would love to hear from you!

How to apply

A job description and person specification are available from ‘Attachments’

To download an application form, please click the orange ‘Apply for job’ button.

Completed applications should be returned via email to juliejackson@standrewsschool.co.uk or via post to the school address.

 Closing date: 31 August 2025

Interview date: TBC

Previous applicants should not apply.

 This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

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.                

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 St Andrew's School

• School type: Special school, Quaker, ages 6 to 16
• School size: 53 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 6 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Andrew's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-andrew-s-school-cromer

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