Teaching Assistant with lunchtime duties

Kettering Park Junior Academy, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 9SE

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  24 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  9 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 - £24,796.00 Annually (FTE) Please note the salary is the FTE, the position is 31.5 hours per week for 39 weeks per year

Teaching Assistant with lunchtime duties job summary

We are looking to appoint a committed Teaching Support Assistant. We are seeking someone who has ambition and confidence, as well as wanting to develop their skills within a school.

We are seeking someone who has ambition and confidence as well as wanting to develop their skills within a school. At KPJA we pride ourselves on our collaborative and caring approach to education. We ensure that we provide our children with high quality education as well as supporting and developing their independence and wellbeing with safeguarding at the heart of all we do. Our mission is ‘Children First’ and we ensure that this is at the heart of everything we do in our school.

The successful candidate should be able to:

• provide a safe environment for children and take responsibility for supervising and assisting them.
• enjoy working with children.
• have a caring personality and uphold the schools values.
• work as part of a team and have good communication.
• respect the confidentiality at all times of pupils and staff.
• is happy to undertake training as appropriate for their duties.

We can offer the successful applicant

• a caring and supportive environment in which to work, where everyone is valued
• a dedicated, friendly and committed staff and governors
• pupils who are friendly, happy and enthusiastic.

The role is 29 hours per week as a Teaching Assistant for 39 weeks per year and 2.5 hours per week as a lunchtime supervisor for 38 weeks per year.

If you would like to learn more about us then please visit our website on www.ketteringparkjunior.com. Visits are welcomed, please contact the school office.

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 Kettering Park Junior Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 357 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kettering Park Junior Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kettering-park-junior-academy

We have passion for the work we do. We are committed to making sure we always put children first. We work collaboratively in and across all our eleven great primary schools to support each other, and share ideas and expertise. Through coaching, empathy and professional development, our staff develop and grow. We use initiative to strive to be better. Together we create exciting, vibrant and innovative centres of learning. All our staff make us stronger. Join us to make a difference. If you would like to learn more about us please visit our website ketteringparkjunior.com

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Northamptonshire and Northampton