6 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    21 February 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    3 February 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 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) Salary NJC Grade A1/B1, Scale Points 3 - 6 (Actual Salary £11,578 - £12,136 per annum)

Teaching Assistant job summary

  • Fixed Term until 31 August 2025, Term Time Only
  • 21.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8.45am - 1.00pm
  • Salary NJC Grade A1/B1, Scale Points 3 - 6, £24,027 - £25,183 per annum
  • Actual Salary £11,578 - £12,136 per annum
  • Required as soon as possible

The Governors are looking for an enthusiastic and friendly Teaching Assistant to join our Catholic primary school at St Wilfrid’s, Ripon.

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant who has numeracy and literacy skills grade 4 or above (or equivalent level) and who is:

  • Caring, patient and intuitive to the needs of the child to enable them to access the curriculum as designated by the teacher
  • Able to communicate effectively with pupils and staff
  • Flexible in approach and able to adapt to working with both groups and individual pupils
  • Willing to help with activities both in the classroom and across the school
  • Professional, responsible and aware of the need to maintain confidentiality
  • Supportive of the Catholic ethos of the school

We offer:

  • A friendly and welcoming school where excellence is valued and celebrated
  • Happy, friendly children with a thirst for knowledge and exemplary standards of behaviour
  • A strong and supportive leadership team and governing body, committed to developing our staff team
  • Employee discount scheme (offering cycle to work scheme, gym membership, money saving offers across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers, home and electrical items)
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (Education Support)
  • A supportive organisation with the commitment to professional development and wellbeing

For further information, please contact either Karen Horn or Rachel Blythe, in our School Office at St Wilfrid’s, Ripon on 01765 603232. Visits to the school are encouraged, by appointment through the school office.

  • Closing Date: Friday 21 February 2025 at 9am
  • Interviews: Tuesday 25 February 2025

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS enhanced disclosure certificate.

In line with KCSiE 2024, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any matters that are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview.

The Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy for applications or withdraw the vacancy at any time at its absolute discretion.

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.

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About St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
Up to 140 pupils
Age range
3 to 11

School location

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