Teaching Assistant (Reception)

This role is a permanent, part-time/term-time role

31.25 hours per week/39 weeks a year, Monday to Friday

Salary: £17,779 per annum (based on working pattern)

We have an opportunity for a Teaching Assistant (Learning Support Assistant) to join us at Kenyngton Manor Primary School in September 2025. You will initially work in our Reception class, supporting the teacher with their responsibility for the development and education of children in school. This may include pupils with special needs.

A confident communicator, you will have good interpersonal and listening skills, and the ability to meet pupil’s needs for encouragement, reassurance and comfort, attending to their personal requirements and physical care. Your day may involve manual handling.

You will assist the teacher/s, in delivering and evaluating programmes and adapting teaching materials to suit the particular requirements of individual pupils and groups. Deliver 1-1 and/or group support / intervention and monitor pupil performance under the direction of senior staff.

If you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact the THPT HR Team by email.

Tours to the school are warmly welcomed, if you would like to request a tour of the school, or meet with us informally, then please email the HR Team.

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.

The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.

We really want you to shine as part of our application and selection process so that you can truly perform at your best and feel comfortable. Our processes are extremely flexible. Please let us know what we can do so that you can be at your best throughout the application and selection stages, just contact us by email for an informal chat.

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.

Values and Behaviours

We are a values-based organisation and seek to recruit individuals who can demonstrate our values. Please ensure your supporting statement reflects our values.

Our values are:

Integrity – displaying honesty and having strong moral principles

Partnership – working together and taking collective ownership to achieve the same goals

Advocacy – working hard on behalf of others to maximise their success

Resilience – finding success again after something difficult or negative has happened

Compassion – displaying empathy towards and a desire to help others

Aspiration – aiming high to achieve success

Safeguarding and Further Information

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to

identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).