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Required from September, we are looking to appoint a variety of KS1 and KS2 Teaching Assistants who thrive on working in a busy and dynamic teaching environment to be based at one of our three Exeter primary schools. You will need to have a passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role model.

You will work alongside the class teachers to support children in all areas of the curriculum and to also assist in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with staff, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teacher. You will also be involved in supporting children at break and lunch times in setting up our play provision or helping with the family dining arrangements in the school hall.

A key part of your job will be in helping to prepare pupils for the ever-changing, digital work of the 21st Century, and so you will need to be willing to embrace the ethos of delivering a knowledge rich, purposeful, and project-based curriculum, through the meaningful use of technology.

Our moto is ‘fortune favours the brave’ and we aim to inspire children to strive to achieve highly and reach their full potential. As a teaching assistant you will have the exciting role of supporting children in learning to read, leading PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and residentials and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of individual children. We provide a full programme of extra-curricular activities, outdoor learning programmes, sporting squads and teams, dedicated art and science rooms, a library service and 1:1 digital devices for every pupil.

You will also be involved in leading playtime activities with children and supporting within the family dining service where older children serve young children each lunch time.

These positions are fixed term in the first instance.

We have a variety of contracts available. As well as the regular school day, some positions will be to support the breakfast club and/or after school club provision, while others will support the holiday club that runs each school holiday apart from Christmas. We also have term time only positions available, covering the normal school day only.

Therefore, please state your availability and preference when applying – term time only or all year round (to support our Holiday Club 8am to 5pm), the ability to support the breakfast club from 7:30 or 8am, and/or ability to support the after-school club to either 5pm or 6pm.

The salary will normally, commence at a full time equivalent of £20,500, with the ability to progress through the pay scale. Proven relevant experience may warrant a starting salary higher up the pay scale. This will be pro rata adjusted for your hours per week and weeks worked per year.

You will benefit from a generous pension scheme, a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme and subsidised meals in our staff café with food cooked and served by our own chefs. Successful candidates will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipment to help them fulfil their duties and we support all staff with an investment in their professional development through training and a good performance management process, where a bonus is payable to those who achieve highly.