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Teaching Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 12 July 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 20 July 2025
Location: Exeter, Devon, EX2 5AP
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 1740c55a-754e-4ba9-b3fa-9edf08efdc07

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Teaching Assistant x 2 Fixed Term, Term Time Only Posts

Fixed Term until 31st August 2026

Closing Date: 11:59hrs, Sunday 20th July 2025

Interview Date: w/b 21st July 2025

Hours: 29 hours and 10 minutes per week

Weeks: 38 weeks per annum + 1 training day per academic year

Grade: C SCP 5-7 with corresponding salaries of £12.85 to £13.26 per hour

Fixed Term

Required from: September 2025

St Peter’s is an oversubscribed school, known as a high performing school and nationally recognised for our approaches to character education. Our most recent Ofsted inspection (‘Good’ November 2019 and SIAMS inspection (‘Excellent’ May 2019) indicate the significant progress we have made in developing well rounded students who ‘live life to the full’.

We wish to appoint a Teaching Assistant to work with our SEND Team supporting students who have needs relating to Communication and Interaction, Cognition and Learning, Social, Emotional and Mental Health and Physical and/or Sensory needs.

Personal skills would include:

• A high level of patience
• Be able to empathise
• Good listening skills
• A good sense of humour
• An English and Maths qualification at C grade GCSE or above or equivalent

Hours: Monday to Friday – 29 hours and 10 minutes per week for 38 weeks per annum plus one training day per academic year.

Our students make working here a real pleasure, and as such we have high expectation for both our students and ourselves.

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

• a welcoming and friendly team of excellent staff
• a supportive working environment
• students with a drive to succeed

A willingness and ability to offer time and energy to our wellbeing programme &/or extra-curricular provision (which we believe adds significant value to our character based approaches to education, including our Duke of Edinburgh and Ten Tors), will be taken into consideration for applications.

As a Church of England Aided School, in cases of equal merit preference will be given to candidates who are in sympathy with the foundation. The school is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of its students. This role is subject to enhanced DBS clearance.

Please download the application pack from the school’s website at: www.spexe.org

Telephone 01392 204764.

Commitment to safeguarding

As a Church of England Aided School, in cases of equal merit preference will be given to candidates who are in sympathy with the foundation. The school is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of its students. This role is subject to enhanced DBS clearance.

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