Job Description

• Exning Primary School
• Address: Exning, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 7EW
• Salary: £16,466 - £16,992 actual per annum (£25,185 - £25,989 pro rata)
• Hours: 28.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
• Contract: Fixed term contract until August 2027. Required from September 2026
• Reference: 5082

Exning Primary School is looking for a passionate and dedicated Teaching Assistant to join our team and help create a positive and inclusive learning environment. In this role, you will assist the classroom teacher with lesson preparation, support students during lessons, particularly those with Special Educational Needs (SEN) or English as an Additional Language (EAL) and help manage classroom behaviour.

You’ll also play a key part in fostering the emotional and social development of pupils, ensuring they stay engaged and reach their full potential. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact on young learners while working in a supportive and dynamic school community. If you're ready to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you!

We also offer a wide range of staff benefits including:

• family friendly policies

• access to our employee assistance programme

• employee wellbeing initiatives

• company events

• memberships and discounts - employees can sign up to various membership cards and discount schemes

• learning and development opportunities - including staff development days

• funded development for your role

• career progression opportunities available.

Exning Primary School provides an outstanding education within the context and understanding of shared values. We believe all children should be taught kindness, co-operation, resilience, honesty, respect, concentration and perseverance, creating an emotionally aware school family, within a safe and secure environment.

We believe the most effective way to prepare children for learning is to teach a skills and knowledge based, creative curriculum giving children the opportunity to become motivated, independent learners that can steer their own learning. We give children opportunities to use their imagination, collaborate and persevere to achieve their personal bests that we celebrate within the school.

As a Group, our Character Strengths and Mission Statement underpin our expectations of all our students and employees. Please familiarise yourself with these and incorporate them into your personal statement; this will be of benefit if you are invited to attend for an interview.

This is an opportunity to join a hugely supportive organisation where we value, support and facilitate your professional development, as well as offering many other benefits including an attractive pension scheme, staff wellbeing initiatives and employee assistance.

The Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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For further information please email our recruitment team on recruitment@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk

Completed application forms should be made via our recruitment portal on our website

If you have not heard from a member of the HR Team within 14 working days, please presume your application has not been successful on this occasion.

The Group is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment practices and will undertake all the required pre-employment checks on the successful candidate including an enhanced DBS Disclosure.

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