Teaching Assistant

Spring Grove Junior Infant and Nursery School; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Spring Grove Junior Infant and Nursery School in Huddersfield seeks Educational Teaching Assistants with Early Years experience to join a large, diverse school community. The role focuses on supporting learning through play, maintaining high expectations, and acting as a positive role model for children.

Hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 3:15pm with a 45-minute lunch. The school emphasises safeguarding, values, and a supportive leadership team, with an enhanced DBS process for all staff.

Qualifications

• Early Years experience in an Early Years provision would be ideal.

Responsibilities

• be an excellent classroom practitioner
• be a professional who inspires all children
• willing to administer personal care
• good communication skills
• excellent interaction skills with all children through play
• have high expectations for standards of achievement, progress and behaviour
• have a passion for teaching and the ability to inspire and motivate
• be an excellent role model
• be ambitious for yourself and the school

Skills

Early Years experience

Job description

We are seeking to appoint Educational Teaching Assistants to our large and diverse school. Having Early Years experience in an Early Years provision would be ideal.

Responsibilities

• be an excellent classroom practitioner
• be a professional who inspires all children
• willing to administer personal care
• good communication skills
• excellent interaction skills with all children through play
• have high expectations for standards of achievement, progress and behaviour
• have a passion for teaching and the ability to inspire and motivate
• be an excellent role model
• be ambitious for yourself and the school

Benefits and Working Hours

In return we can offer you a warm and welcoming school community, with a firm set of values embedded in everything we do:

• Respect for each other
• Aspirations to be the best we can be
• Confidence and resilience in everything we do.

We also offer:

• Excellently resourced school setting
• A very experienced and successful team
• A very supportive leadership team

Hours of work will be:

• Monday - Friday 9am - 3:15 (45min lunch break)

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff are subject to an enhanced DBS check. A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.

If your values match ours, and you think you have the skills we are looking for, then please do apply.

Related Documents

• Employee Spec.pdf
• Job Description.pdf