Come and work in our school, with a fab staff team, where teaching and learning is fun and exciting!

William Morris is a happy place to teach and learn. Our team is a family growing together to develop our school for the children. We are welcoming and supportive. The children at William Morris are friendly and engaged, they are keen to learn and have strong positive relationships with staff. Parents are supportive of the school and our PTA offers activities and fundraisers.

We are situated in the beautiful Tadpole Garden Village and housed in a purpose-built new building. We have children from nursery to year 6 and are a 2 form entry primary school.

We wish to appoint a Teaching Assistant for Key Stage 2 to join us here at William Morris Primary School.  This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our team and provide excellent care and education for our pupils.

The hours of work will be 8.30-3.10pm, Monday to Friday including an unpaid lunch break of 30 minutes per day and 30 minutes as a midday supervisory assistant under a separate contract (paid at NGC K Grade 1). The Teaching Assistant hours of work will total 28 hours and 20 minutes per week and will be paid at NJC Grade K (£12.73 to £13.27 per hour). This is a term time plus INSET days contract (39 working weeks per annum and 44.84 paid week per annum).

The successful candidate will have a passion and enthusiasm for working with children, be creative, dedicated and have a positive attitude to joining a forward-thinking school.

You must be able to demonstrate that you can build excellent relationships, want to make a difference to all children and have excellent communication and organisational skills.

Your role will include contributing to the delivery and monitoring  of interventions for individuals and small groups, supporting assessments and evidencing learning, working with the teacher to create stimulating classroom displays and learning resources plus building positive relationships with the children by being an approachable, caring and supportive role model.

For further details about the role please read the attached recruitment pack or contact us using the details below.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

We are part of the Blue Kite Academy Trust, a growing family of primary schools based in Swindon and Wiltshire, who offer excellent CPD and career opportunities, a competitive salary with scope for progression, a commitment to nationally agreed pay and terms, an excellent pension scheme and free staff health and well-being support.