Teaching Assistant

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Email: [email removed]

Website: https://www.ashillschool.co.uk

Headteacher: Mr Dan Pickard

NOR: 111    Age range: 4-11 years

• Salary - Scale 5-6, £19,793 to £20,847 actual pa
• Fixed term until 31 August 2027
• Part Time
• 32.5 hours per week
• Term Time + 1 week
• Required ASAP

Ashill VC Primary School is looking to appoint a highly committed, enthusiastic and compassionate individual who has an energy and interest in not only working with whole classes of children but also working with small groups of children and/or in a 1:2:1 capacity, intervening to close gaps in children’s subject knowledge and developing their basis skills. Hours of work, 8.30am – 3.30pm, Monday to Friday.

You will need to:

• have strength, experience and relevant qualifications
• have experience of working with children;
• have a good understanding of how to motivate children to engage them in their learning;
• be determined to identify what helps a child learn, overcoming barriers along the way;
• have excellent communication skills;
• be creative and have a willingness to offer new ideas;
• be a good listener, facilitator for learning, motivator and role model.

We are able to offer you:

• inquisitive children;
• a very welcoming and supportive ethos;
• supportive and friendly staff;
• an opportunity to be innovative and creative.

Further details are available from Dan Pickard – [email removed]

How to apply

To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.

Completed forms should either be returned via email to – [email removed] or by post to the address above.

Closing date:  1 October 2026, 12 noon (shortlisted candidates will be called for interview)

Interview date:  7 October 2026, pm

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.