Teaching Assistants - Kingsbrook View Primary Academy
Location: Bierton with Broughton
Based on 39 weeks per year this includes INSET days
Hours: Full time: 32.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8:30am – 3:30pm) Part time (example): 20 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am – 1pm) Other hours will be considered, candidates should specify full or part time on their My New Term online application form.
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 12pm Monday 2nd June 2025
Starting date: One position to be appointed asap, subject to satisfactory completion of all pre-employment checks (approx. 4 weeks)
Additional Teaching Assistant roles to start in September 2025.
About us
At Kingsbrook View Primary Academy we are committed to delivering inspirational learning opportunities that are engaging, purposeful and challenging as everyone has the potential to achieve and excel. We have a passion for learning and we value the power of learning in securing a successful future. Our pupils take ownership of their learning to become highly aspirational and be able to make positive contributions to life in modern Britain.
Kingsbrook View Primary Academy:
* Has a strong set of values, modelled and followed by all.
* Provides an excellent primary education for all children attending.
* Enables all children to be highly aspirational and reach their potential.
* Has high expectations of all.
* Develops resilience, independence and self-regulation.
* Provides a broad, rich, engaging and challenging curriculum.
* Is an active and prominent establishment within the local community.
* Provides a secure and happy environment where everybody’s safety and wellbeing matters: children, parents and staff.
* Meets the individual needs of children and their families through a proven model of outstanding teaching and learning.
* Values the contribution outdoor learning makes to a stimulating curriculum as well as wellbeing.
* Celebrates diversity through an inclusive culture based on equality and respect.
* Is a member of the Inspiring Futures Partnership Trust, drawing on the expertise and capacity of other Trust members to deliver outstanding provision.
As a Teaching Assistant, you will work alongside teachers to support the educational, social and developmental needs of children. You will help enable children to achieve and be successful. You will take ownership of, and support the shared responsibility for, the well-being, education and behaviour of children. As a Teaching Assistant you treat all pupils with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to the professional position. Successful candidates will be positively committed to shaping and changing the lives of children. This role involves being a strong team member and having the ability to work in partnership with all stakeholders.
Main responsibilities:
* Support whole class learning, groups of children or individual children having specific or particular needs, as directed.
* Share in the care and wellbeing of pupils throughout the academy.
* Be fully informed about the needs of groups and individuals’ they are supporting and where working with named children the outcomes of their Educational Healthcare Plan and those targets set by external professionals.
* Work under the direction of class teachers and the Head of Academy to support and deliver planned learning interventions.
This Job Description describes in general terms the normal duties which the post-holder will be expected to undertake. However, the job or duties described may vary or be amended from time to time without changing the level of responsibility associated with the post.
About you
This role requires you to have a suitable standard of English and Maths, as well as a strong grasp of spoken English. Successful candidates will be required to engage in the statutory training needed for this post.
Does this sound like you?
* You are child-centred and put children’s best interests at the heart of all you do.
* You understand the needs of the children you are supporting and respond accordingly.
* You are able to engage children, allowing them to make progress.
* You can demonstrate suitable experience and/or qualifications for working in a school context.
* You are flexible, adaptable and able to work on your own initiative.
* You have enthusiasm and the qualities of a strong team member.
* You foster positive relationships with pupils, staff and parents/carers and communicate effectively.
* You embrace core moral values such as integrity, resilience and respect.
* You have a good sense of humour and a positive outlook.
In turn, we offer you:
* A chance to work alongside amazing children who are keen to learn and have high aspirations.
* An opportunity to work alongside a highly professional, committed and talented staff team.
* An opportunity to grow and develop as a professional through high quality bespoke personal and professional development.
* A brand new, state-of-the-art building with dedicated facilities and spaces for supporting learning.
* A vibrant and inclusive community.
Other information
Interested candidates should complete the online application via the My New Term portal, which includes a personal statement that should outline your suitability for the post by referring to the job description and person specification detailed above. In compliance with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CVs cannot be accepted and you will need to complete an online My New Term application form to be considered for this position.
Please use this link:
My New Term Application
Visits to the Academy are warmly welcomed but need to be arranged in advance. Please email: office@kvpa.school or call: 01296 255 000 to arrange a visit.
For more information about our Academy please visit our website www.kvpa.org.uk or to discuss the role further or arrange a visit please contact our Academy office, via email: office@kvpa.school or telephone: 01296 255000.
Kingsbrook View Primary Academy and the Inspiring Future’s Partnership Trust are committed to safeguarding children, promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Online searches will be completed prior to shortlisting and an enhanced DBS and qualifications check will be carried out upon appointment of all successful candidates.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
* All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
* All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
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