Teaching Assistants

About the role

High Beeches Primary School - a great place to work

Teaching Assistants Required

Overview

Making learning a lifelong adventure

We are currently looking for two or three high-calibre individuals to work as a teaching assistants in our school.  The roles include 18-19 hours of classroom support for each of two classes, in either Keys Stage 1 or Key Stage 2, and 10-12 hours of one-to-one support for an individual pupil in a Key Stage 2 class.  We have some flexibility and may be able to design roles to suit two or three successful candidates, depending on their availability and preferences.  The posts represent a fantastic opportunity to work closely with pupils and teachers to improve outcomes for children.

About Us

High Beeches is a successful and popular two-form entry primary school, situated on the eastern side of Harpenden.  We are highly aspirational for our pupils and our distinctive and challenging, creative curriculum enables our pupils to make very good progress.  Our well-established school values are central to the school’s work.  Our pupils are highly engaged and well behaved, and their families are supportive and involved in their children's learning and development.

All of our staff say they would recommend High Beeches as a place to work!  We prioritise pupil and staff wellbeing and have a stable and friendly staff team and a collaborative working ethos, where professional development is supported and rewarded.  This was recognised in our most recent OFSTED inspection (June 2023), when we were awarded an ‘outstanding’ judgment for the second time.

We expect you to share our commitment to safeguarding and to promoting the welfare of our children.

About the Role

You will enjoy working as part of a team and will be highly focused on ensuring that pupils make excellent progress and achieve well by supporting them in lessons to make good progress in their learning and development.  You may have experience of or interest in supporting neuro-diverse children, particularly for the one-to-one role.

The posts provide:

• opportunities to work in a great team alongside experienced teachers in preparing, delivering and assessing the curriculum
• opportunities to take independent responsibility for individual pupils’ learning and well-being
• a vibrant learning community with highly engaged children and families and dedicated, experienced colleagues

• a commitment to your professional development, including opportunities to develop practice and skills by working closely with colleagues and school leaders and access to training and development (such as apprenticeship courses)
• a strong focus on staff wellbeing, including access to our Employee Assistance Programme

• a pleasant working environment with high quality resources and well-planned provision, working within a supportive and collaborative team

About You

We are looking for people with a positive attitude and a passion for seeing children thrive and achieve.  Experience of working with children on a paid or voluntary basis and supporting them to make progress is desirable. 

We want our pupils to be the best, so it is essential that the successful candidates can provide a model of communication, language and numeracy skills.  These should be reflected in high expectations of themselves and others as well as in good GCSE’s or at least a relevant level 2 qualification.

They should be able to follow direction, but will also need to work with initiative and discretion.  They will have high degrees of resilience and flexibility and will be able to contribute to our school’s positive ethos.  So, if you are a hardworking team player with a desire to improve outcomes for all children, we would love to hear from you and perhaps meet you informally.  We may close applications earlier than initially advertised if we find a suitable candidate.

High Beeches Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment.  Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, as well as other pre-appointment checks, including an online check.

Applications may close early if applications are received from strong candidates.