Do you love working with children and seeing the progress that they make?  Would you like to join a friendly, welcoming team in a thriving primary school?  We are recruiting for a classroom Teaching Assistant for  1st September 2024. You will be working 4 days a week (likely to be Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) and 8:30am-15:30.

We have 210 pupils on roll (7 classes) and over 30 staff. As a medium-sized school situated within a multi-academy trust, candidates will benefit from excellent support from a strong school-based Senior Leadership Team.  Across the River Learning Trust, there are exceptional opportunities for professional networking and personal development.  Our Red Kite Values: Responsibility, Enthusiasm, Determination, Kindness, Independence, Teamwork, Enrichment.

Our School Vision: Nurturing everyone to flourish in a community where all can believe and achieve (The Parable of the Sower Matthew 13:1-23)

We are looking for an excellent Teaching Assistant with vision and a passion for bringing out the best in all children and can make a real difference in our school. Specifically, we would like someone who has the following qualities:

• Calmness 
• Empathy 
• Enthusiasm 
• Flexibility 
• Initiative
• Resilience 

OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously, and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks, and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children. 

The River Learning Trust and Garsington CE Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.   The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.