Teaching Assistant (Temp until Jul 26)

Grange School, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2HU

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  01 Sep 25

• Closing date

  11 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,366.78 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant (Temp until Jul 26) job summary

Teaching Assistant Grade 4 (Occasional HLTA cover dependent on candidate experience) - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

30 hours per week, term time only

Required from 1st September 2025, a highly effective teaching assistant to join our enthusiastic and dedicated team in our commitment to promoting the education, development and well-being of all children.

We are an ethnically diverse and culturally rich infant school, with an attached nursery, situated in the middle of Burton-upon-Trent. We have high expectations of everybody in our school and our nurturing and inclusive environment aims

to inspire curiosity, creativity and a lifelong love of learning in each individual.

The children and their futures are at the centre of all that we do and we encourage all of our children to ‘Reach for the Stars’ to be the best that they can be. Our dedicated team of passionate educators is committed to fostering a safe, stimulating and supportive space where children feel valued and cared for.

The role may require you to work alongside individual children and groups, and take the lead in managing small groups of pupils for specific intervention. The position will also include supporting pupils for a period of time at lunchtime. We are looking for candidates with strong behaviour management, good interpersonal skills and a caring personality.

We can offer a welcoming team, a warm and nurturing work environment and development opportunities to support your own professional growth.

In addition to fulfilling the Person Specification, the successful candidate will:

• have experience of working in Early Years and/or Key Stage 1;

• Be passionate about inclusion and support our belief that every child has the right to the best possible learning experience;

• be committed to working in partnership with teaching and support staff to plan, deliver and evaluate effective interventions to support the learning experience of our pupils

• have high aspirations for every child in our school, and strive to ensure that every child receives the very best opportunities to excel and enjoy;

• be committed to fostering positive relationships between pupils, staff and parents

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 Grange School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 156 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Grange School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/grange-school-burton-on-trent

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