Position: Teaching Assistant

Location: Glenthorne Primary School

Employer:  Staffordshire County Council

Contract Type: Fixed term contract (full time or job share)

Working Hours:    32.5 hours

Closing Date for Applications: Thursday 5th December 2019

£18795- £19171 Level 3

Required from January 2020

Glenthorne Community Primary School is a successful and growing primary school, minutes from junction 11 of the M6.   We now have an exciting opportunity for a dedicated, enthusiastic and passionate practitioner committed to raising standards. Glenthorne Community Primary School is looking to recruit a teaching assistant to work across whole school supporting in class and with intervention programmes. The right candidate will be a dedicated, enthusiastic and passionate practitioner committed to raising standards. They should have previous experience of working in school together with an excellent knowledge of how children learn and the empathy and determination required to ensure that they succeed.

We would like to appoint a talented, experienced and enthusiastic teaching assistant to join our team who will play a key role in helping our good school to become outstanding. They will support the existing intervention programme and further raise standards across the phase working under the direction of an outstanding phase leader.

We need a teaching assistant who:

• is a committed practitioner who strives to do the best for the pupils they work with;

• has good behaviour management skills and enjoys working with children;

• is innovative, flexible and a good team player.

We can offer:

• Enthusiastic, well-behaved children with a positive attitude to learning.

• Friendly, hard-working and dedicated colleagues; 

• The opportunity to work under the direction of an outstanding teachers,

• Very supportive parents and governors.

Prospective applicants are positively encouraged to visit us to view the school and meet the staff and children in order to fully appreciate all that we have to offer. Please contact School Office on 01922 666266 to make an appointment.

To apply for this post please download the application form below from the available documents section. Please complete the return to the school with a covering letter outlining the skills, experience and qualities that you can bring to our school.

Closing Date: Thursday 5th December 9am 2019

Interview Date: Friday 13th December 2019

‘This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.’ This position is subject to criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.