Teaching Assistant

The Stables Independent School, Norwich, Norfolk, NR12 9EU

12 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  31 July 2025 at 1am

• Date listed

  17 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: from £23,189

Teaching Assistant job summary

Part of the Clover Childcare Services Ltd

Tel: 01692 581467

Email: admin@thestablesschool.co.uk

Website: www.thestablesschool.co.uk

Headteacher: Sarah Porter

• Salary - from £23,189 depending on experience and qualifications
• Temporary until 31 August 2026
• Full Time
• 37 hours per week
• Term Time plus 2 weeks
• Required for 1 September 2025

Come and join a dedicated team of educators at our unique school

We are seeking a highly motivated educational practitioner who can contribute to and enrich the educational experience of the children in our small specialist school, opened in September 2018. The Stables is an independent school catering for up to twenty-two pupils at Key Stages 1,2 and 3 which was graded as either GOOD or OUTSTANDING in all areas by OFSTED in May 2024. 

As a TA, you will support teaching and learning across the school. You will provide day-to-day support for our teachers but will also be required to lead delivery of the curriculum for individual children or small groups and become a vital part of a team tasked with creating a learning environment which complements the therapeutic environment already established in our Children’s Homes, delivering positive educational outcomes for our pupils. This must be planned to meet a wide range of needs including: social, emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties. Hours of work, 37 hours per week, Monday – Thursday 08:30-16:00 and Friday 08:30-15:30.   

With our commitment to attachment theory, inter-subjectivity and the neurobiology of maltreatment, we are looking to hear from suitably experienced teaching assistants who share the same value base. The role is ideally suited to a qualified teaching assistant with recent experience in supporting teaching and learning for individuals and small groups of pupils, in particular those with special educational needs, who can embrace our approach to learning with an attitude of playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy. The majority of our children and young people have educational biographies which have been affected by developmental trauma. 

For further information:

Please call Headteacher Sarah Porter for an informal discussion on 07721 718054 or email - headteacher@thestablesschool.co.uk. 

How to apply

A job description/person specification is available from ‘Attachments’.

To download a copy of our application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.

Alternatively, to request an application form, job description and person specification please email - admin@thestablesschool.co.uk

Completed forms should be returned to – admin@thestablesschool.co.uk 

Closing date:  31 July 2025

Interview date:  To be confirmed

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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 Stables Independent School

• School type: Special school, ages 6 to 14
• School size: 20 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 6 to 14
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Stables Independent School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-stables-independent-school

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