Teaching Assistant

The Grove Junior School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 1QB

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBA

• Closing date

  2 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  20 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,583.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking for a teaching assistant to join our friendly and highly committed team supporting a class teacher and providing interventions for small groups of children for 30 hours a week. This is a term time post.

The term-time hours would be from 8:45am-3:15pm Monday to Friday. This is a fixed term position but may become permanent at a later date.

Your role will be to:

Provide learning support for a range of pupils

Deliver specific intervention programmes

Be a positive and proactive member of the staff team

Ideally we are looking for:

An experienced primary school Teaching Assistant with recent experience of working in KS2

A candidate with good numeracy and literacy skills

Additional relevant qualifications

A creative, conscientious and patient person

We are proud to be an inclusive school and we are looking for somebody who shares our ethos to join us.

Please call the School Office for further information (01582 760031).

Please ensure that your application addresses the qualities we are looking for as detailed in the person specification.

We are committed to safeguarding children and expect all candidates to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Check

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 The Grove Junior School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 355 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Grove Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-grove-junior-school

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