Teaching Assistant

St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 3NZ

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  23 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  16 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,027.00 - £24,790.00 Annually (FTE) Band B

Teaching Assistant job summary

Our Lady and All Saints Catholic Multi Academy

Teaching Assistant

Salary Band B 3-5 (£24,027 - £24,790) FTE Actual Salary : £18,092 - £18,667

Fixed Term: 1 year, until August 2026

Part-time: 32.5 hours and 39 weeks

Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 3:45pm

St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School

Required: 1st September 2025

Our Lady and All Saints Catholic Multi Academy Company (“the MAC”) was formed in April 2021 and currently comprises of 12 Catholic Primary Schools and 2 Catholic Secondary Schools across the Birmingham, Solihull, and Warwickshire areas. St Augustine’s is a one form entry primary school, just a short distance from Solihull Town Centre.

We are a small community family with a strong Catholic ethos, where we strive to live by our mission statement, ‘We love and learn together by growing in friendship with Jesus’. Our overarching aim is for the children in our care to feel safe and happy, in a stimulated and challenging environment, with a life-long love for learning. The success of our school is based on the strong link and partnership we have between our parents, Governors and parish community. We provide a broad and balanced curriculum; enriched with visitors, trips, events and activities to immerse the children in their learning.

The Governors and Head Teacher are seeking to appoint an outstanding Teaching Assistant to join our team at St Augustine’s.

We can offer:

A good school with strong Catholic values.

Wonderful children who are eager to learn and be challenged.

Friendly and supportive families.

A caring environment with a commitment to safeguarding all children.

An opportunity to use your skills, working alongside dedicated staff.

Excellent professional development and formation.

A welcoming and supportive Local Governing Board.

The successful candidate will:

Be committed to promoting the Catholic ethos of our school.

Have excellent knowledge of the primary and Early Years curriculum.

Demonstrate good interpersonal and organisational skills to work effectively with colleagues, the SENDCo and external agencies (where required).

Have excellent behaviour management strategies when working within the classroom, with small groups or with pupils on a 1:1 basis.

Show a commitment to developing the whole child, which may involve working with children who have SEND, and enabling them to reach their full potential.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.

For further information regarding this post or to arrange a visit, please contact school office Mrs Jones (Office Manager) on Tel: 0121 7054355 or through the school office email on 85office@st-augustines.solihull.sch.uk

To apply, please visit https://mynewterm.com/jobs/148087/EDV-2025-SACPS-09749. Alternatively, to receive a copy of the application form and supporting documents, please email recruitment@olaas.co.uk, stating which vacancy you are interested in.

Closing Date: Monday 23rd June (noon)

Shortlisting: Monday 23rd June (afternoon)

*Interview Date: Wednesday 25th June

St Augustine’s, part of Our Lady and All Saints Multi Academy Company, has a responsibility for and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups. All employees and volunteers are expected to share this commitment and to obtain an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) and where relevant, a childcare disqualification check. Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and other satisfactory pre-employment checks. This post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.

*Please note the MAC reserve the right to change this date.

We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Therefore, should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible

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 St Augustine's Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 233 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Augustine's Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-augustine-s-catholic-primary-school-b91-3nz

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