Teaching Assistant

Audlem St James C.E. Primary School (Number on roll 190)

Heathfield Road, Audlem, Cheshire CW3 0HH

Teaching Assistant (Primary with SN) Temporary

Salary: Grade 4 SCP5 £18,306 p.a. (actual Salary)

32.5 hours per week (38 weeks per year)

Audlem St James C.E. Primary School is seeking to appoint a creative, highly motivated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to work as part of a team supporting children with special educational needs. You will build trusting relationships to inspire and drive children’s learning.

We offer a welcoming, vibrant school; a friendly, hardworking team of staff and Governors; happy, enthusiastic children who enjoy learning and a broad, rich, varied and creative curriculum.

The successful candidate must be able to support teaching and learning in either Year 5 class or Early Years dependant on experience.

This role requires effective communication skills, excellent teamwork skills and high expectations and standards for attainment, achievement and behaviour.  The successful candidate is expected to be committed to all aspects of school life.

The position is part time and is funded on a temporary basis initially.

The role requires unsupervised working with children and is a regulated activity as defined in the latest version of Keeping Children Safe in Education. 

Audlem St James C.E. Primary School is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, employability check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and in addition to the Enhanced DBS, applicants will be required to disclose spent and unspent convictions when requested.  We are committed to not discriminating unfairly because of convictions, spent or unspent. 

Please note that we may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn without notice. 

We are committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and provider of education. 

Application details can be obtained from the school by e-mail: bursar@stjamesaudlem.cheshire.sch.uk

The closing date for receipt of applications is 12.30pm, Tuesday 4th February 2025.

To apply please request an application form and further details from the school office at bursar@stjamesaudlem.cheshire.sch.uk and return your application to the school for the attention of the Headteacher, Andy Perry, at the school address or email head@stjamesaudlem.cheshire.sch.uk

Applicants are encouraged to call the school for a chat and visits are welcomed at a mutually convenient time.

Closing date:  Tuesady 4th February 2025 at 12.30pm

Interviews will be held on Thursday 13^th February 2025