Teaching Assistant – Full time term time plus 10 days

Rosa Street Primary and Nursery School Academy 

Rosa Street 

Spennymoor 

Tel. No. 01388 815427 

A member of Together Learning Partnership 

Interim Head Teacher September 2024 Mrs Helen Gibbons 

email: rosastreet@durhamlearning.net 

website: www.rosastreetprimary.org.uk 

Teaching Assistant – Full Time  

37 hours per week, term time plus 10 additional days  

Salary: Full Time – Grade 5 SCP 7 to 14 (£24,294 to £27,334 pro rata) pay award pending 

£21,864 to £24,600 (actual salary)  

The Directors and Governors are seeking to appoint a highly effective, caring, enthusiastic and experienced Teaching Assistant to join our warm and friendly school. 

The successful applicant will demonstrate the ability to work in partnership with teachers and other professionals to provide effective support for learning and to contribute to pupil progress through delivery and evaluation of activities, both in whole class and group situations. Teaching Assistants also contribute, on a session basis, to the provision of our wraparound care facility – Busy Bees (which operates between the hours of 7.30am and 6.00pm).   

Character and personality are important aspects of working with children – and in our school team! You need to be patient, encouraging, determined and resilient. If you feel that this could be you, then please complete the application form provided. 

The ideal candidate will already have successful experience of working in a primary school with children who have a range of abilities and additional needs. Our talented team of teaching assistants are also qualified to at least NVQ Level 3 or equivalent and this will be a requirement of these posts too. 

Applications should be completed by downloading the application form from the school or company website and returning by email or post to Mrs. H Gibbons, Interim Head Teacher, Rosa Street Primary School (rosastreet@durhamlearning.net) no later than Friday 8th November 2024 at 12pm. 

An opportunity to look around school is offered at 4.00pm on Wednesday 6th November 2024. Please confirm via email or telephone if you would like to attend.

Shortlisting will be completed on the afternoon of Friday 8th November and shortlisted candidates will be e-mailed to invite them for interview. The interviews will be on Friday 15th November 2024 at Rosa Street Primary School. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Together Learning Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We want to develop a more diverse workforce and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. 
Applicants with disabilities will be invited for interview if the essential job criteria are met. 

The school is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.  This post is subject to enhanced DBS and the successful completion of a 6-month probationary period. 

All completed application forms must be returned to the Academy at the above address either by email or post, by the closing date.