Teaching Assistant

St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ulverston, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0EA

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  7th January 2026

• Closing date

  5 December 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  25 November 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: £25,989.00 Annually (FTE) Pro rata salary for 30 hours per week and 39 working weeks (term time plus 1) is £18,045

Teaching Assistant job summary

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced and conscientious Teaching Assistant to work across our nursery setting.

Part Time 30 hours per week. Working hours Monday-Friday, 08.30am - 15:30pm

This is a Fixed Term Role to 31/8/2026 due to being dependent on funding.

Pay Scales: Grade 5 Scale Point 6 - £25,989 per annum

The successful candidate will:

• Be supportive of the Catholic Ethos of the school.

• Have previous experience or knowledge of classroom support.

• Have a good knowledge of EYFS.

• Hold relevant qualifications.

• Have high expectations and demonstrate commitment.

• Be an excellent communicator.

• Be a committed team member.

We will offer you:

• An outstanding school.

• Well-behaved, engaged pupils, who achieve high standards.

• A forward- thinking school, which is constantly striving for improvement.

• Friendly and experienced staff and governors.

• Supportive, continuing professional development.

• Opportunities to work with colleagues across the trust to develop practice and widen experience.

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School is part of the Mater Christi Academy Trust.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students. All applicants are subject to the requirements of the Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education guidelines. This will include checks with past employers and the need for the successful applicant to hold or undergo a suitable enhanced DBS disclosure.

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 Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ulverston

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 164 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ulverston website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-mary-s-catholic-primary-school-ulvertson

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