St Philip's Catholic Primary and Nursery School

Vacancies

Teaching Assistant required for January 2025

Salary: A1/B1 (£17414.81 - £18538.94) dependant on qualification and experience
32.5 hours per week, term time only
Permanent

Required January 2025

The Governing Body is seeking to appoint a committed teaching assistant with vision, energy and ambition for our wonderful and welcoming school. We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic and calm member of staff whose role will be to work with children across our primary school.

The role will involve working under the direction of the class teacher to support individual children and small groups of pupils. The right candidate will be able to demonstrate personal qualities of dedication, patience, flexibility, humour and a strong desire to work with children. Working collaboratively as part of a multi-professional team you will be able to respond quickly to the changing needs of the school and the individual children, as well as demonstrating good levels of Maths and English.

Essential:

• GCSE C plus or equivalent Maths and English
• supportive to the Catholic ethos of the school
• a passion to work with primary aged children and make a difference to their lives
• ability to relate to and work with children
• flexibility to work across the primary age phase or as a 1 to 1 support and as a class support
• a willingness to undertake: safeguarding training, curriculum development, communication development

Desirable:

• a good level of competency in computing
• an understanding of how children learn
• an ability to offer skills to the wider school
• skills & talents that could be used to support our extra-curricular activity provision

Applications MUST be on CES Application Form and forwarded to the school via email to Mr B Sandbach, Head of School at:  Headteacher@st-philips.org by 12.00 noon Friday 13^th December 2025, for shortlisting on this date. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 17^th December 2025 for candidates who are shortlisted.

St Philip’s Catholic Primary School is committed to safer recruitment and appointments are made subject to satisfactory references, pre-employment health checks and a successful DBS disclosure. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people is an expectation of all staff.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed, to arrange this please mail our School Business Manager at: annie.kinder@st-philips.org

Closing date: Friday 13^th December 2025 at 12 Noon

Interviews to be held on Tuesday 17^th December 2025

 CATHOLIC CARE are recruiting

Please visit their website for a list of current vacancies https://catholic-care.org.uk/recruitment/latest-vacancies/ or telephone 0113 3885400 for further details