Classroom Support Staff Required for September 2025
Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:35 am to 3:10 pm (30.42 hours per week), 37 weeks per year (term time)
Actual Annual Salary: £16,256 (SWAN Grade 3.3, FTE £23,576)
Knaphill School are looking to appoint enthusiastic and caring support staff to join our team.
Working closely with and supported by the Class Teacher and an experienced SENCo, your role will provide additional academic and emotional support for our children. As classroom support within a year group, you will be working as a team around the child; this may require general classroom support duties, working supporting small groups or in some instances working one to one with a child to meet a specific target or need. The role also includes lunchtime supervision. This is a fulfilling position that will give you the opportunity to improve children’s educational outcomes.
The successful candidate must demonstrate:
- A passion and enthusiasm to work with children
- A positive, patient and nurturing approach towards children
- An enthusiasm to live and model our school values
- Be confident, able to work one-to-one and deal with challenging situations
- A desire and ability to contribute fully to school life and work effectively as part of a team
- Have high expectations of self and others
- Be forward thinking and dynamic
- A flexible, can-do attitude
- A good sense of humour
- The ability to communicate with children, staff and parents
Knaphill Federation of Schools are a split site Infant (Knaphill Lower School) and Junior School (Knaphill School) in Knaphill, Woking. We are a warm and friendly Federation of schools; we are very proud to be a fully inclusive school which caters for the varying additional needs of our children. We strive to equip all children with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to enable them to be the best they can be.
We can offer you:
- An experienced, supportive senior leadership team
- Regular training including professional development as part of the whole school
- Supporting Teaching and Learning qualifications with opportunities to follow career pathways across the trust
- A friendly team with a focus on the personal development of every child
- A commitment to the wellbeing of both children and staff
- Children who are eager to learn and rewarding to teach
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- A Cycle to Work Scheme
Applicants are encouraged to visit the school prior to application. Please call the school office to arrange a visit, we look forward to welcoming you to our school.
Application closing date: 9am Monday 7th July 2025
Applications must be made using the Knaphill School Application Form (CVs will not be accepted).
Please note that all applications will be considered upon receipt and for an exceptional candidate an appointment may be made before the closing date. Therefore, it is recommended that if you wish to apply for this position, you do so as soon as possible.
Interview date: To be confirmed with shortlisted applicants
Please contact us if you have any queries. We look forward to receiving your application.
Knaphilll School is part of The Swan Trust, a multi-academy trust which incorporates 10 schools within the Woking area. The schools work closely together and aim to support each other through purposeful collaboration that enhances educational opportunities and supports improvements in the quality of learning for all our children.
All schools within The SWAN Trust warmly welcome children, families, governors, and staff from diverse backgrounds within the Woking community.
Knaphill Federation of School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to demonstrably share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Shortlisted applicants will be required to supply details of any unspent convictions and conditional cautions and any spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e., that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended). If you are appointed, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
All schools within The SWAN Trust welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.