Teaching Assistant

Stanwick Primary School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 6PS

21 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  27 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 - £25,185.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Hours: 30 hours per week

Weeks per year: 39

At Stanwick Primary School, we have extremely dedicated and committed staff that work to provide a range of experiences to enhance the learning journey that children will take throughout school. Our vision is for our pupils to leave our school ready to access the world beyond the primary years, both academically, and socially and emotionally. We want our pupils to have achieved this through a wide range of experiences, including the use of the outdoors to enhance the learning opportunities that they receive.

The Role

Stanwick Primary School are looking to recruit a Teaching Assistant to join the team. You need to be patient, dedicated and have high expectations for yourself and pupils. The post holder’s prime duties will be assisting teachers in the classroom, leading interventions across key stage two and engaging in CPD to support a range of needs across the school.

School tours are welcome and encouraged.

Key Tasks:

• To support teachers and pupils in the delivery of quality teaching and learning, including the delivery of a range of interventions.

• Provide for the social, emotional and personal development for pupils through 1:1 and group support.

• Promote the involvement of pupils in school life

• Enable pupils to become more independent learners

• Help raise standards of achievement for pupils

About You

You will need:

• Desirable to have Level 2 or Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent

• Proven track record of strong and consistent behaviour management

• Experience of working closely with parents in successful home-school partnerships that support pupils’ needs

• A working knowledge of relevant and effective SEN interventions and how to support pupils with SEND

• Skilled at making and sustaining positive relationships with children

• Able to stimulate children’s interest in learning

• Able to work closely with pupils who are finding learning difficult, or those who have experienced a feeling of failure

• Skilled at developing children’s self-esteem and motivation so that they become resilient, independent learners

• Capable of delivering intervention work and maintaining appropriate records

• Knowledge and understanding of how children learn

• Familiar with IT and its educational uses or approaches

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Benefits:

• Access to retail discounts and technology schemes

• Access to Cycle to Work 

• Mental health and well-being support for staff

• Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional 

• An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged. 

• Discounted gym membership 

• Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours - while recognising our employee’s preferences for when they work 

• Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes. 

Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence process. 

Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks. 

We look forward to your response. 

The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition. 

*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated

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 Stanwick Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 196 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Stanwick Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/stanwick-academy

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