Teaching Assistant / Mid-Day Supervisory Assistant
Hours 30.5 hrs total (see pay scale for breakdown)
Monday to Thursday – 8.15am-3.15pm
Friday 8.15am-1.45pm
Pay scale Grade K for 26.5hrs Teaching Assistant and Grade J for 4hrs MDSA
Details
The staff and governors of Abbey Meads Community Primary School are offering an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated team. We wish to appoint an outstanding Teaching Assistant to support a Reception class for the hours advertised. The successful candidate must be confident supporting children’s Early Learning and must have a PASS in GCSE in English and Maths or equivalent.
This is a temporary post working in Reception.
Come and join our friendly, supportive and inspirational team!
As part of The Blue Kite Academy Trust, we are a forward-thinking school where staff have fun alongside the children, plan work that excites them and their pupils and have the chance to take risks.
You will work with outstanding teachers who let their creativity guide them and have access to the latest technologies, which prepare children for life in the 21st century. We build memories that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.
If you have high expectations, want the best for pupils and want to make a difference, and if you have a sense of humour and a sense of fun, then come and look around Abbey Meads. It might just be the place for you.
You will be working 30.5 hours per week, term-time only, excluding Teacher Development Days for the times stated above. This includes a paid 45minute lunch duty and 45 minute unpaid period for your own lunch Monday to Thursday and a 1hour lunch duty on Fridays with a 30 minute unpaid period for your own lunch.
Abbey Meads Community Primary School always has the welfare of children as its first priority, and our recruitment procedures include the gathering of information about candidates and their suitability to work with young people.
DBS clearances, online searches and references will be obtained prior to appointment.
Shortlisting date 9th July 2025
Interview date By invitation only in the week beginning 14th July 2025
Start date September 2025.
Abbey Meads Community Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.