Teaching assistant
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 October 2025 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 3NH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | f86b5eb7-2dd9-4d37-8f49-e48d1f0981ec |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Applicants will ideally:
• Be committed to supporting individual children's social, moral, emotional and academic well-being
• Have an empathetic understanding of children's emotions and behaviour and actively seeks to remove barriers to learning
• Be patient, cheerful and understanding
• Have good interpersonal skills
• Be full of innovative ideas and strategies to adapt to daily challenges
• Communicate effectively with children, team members and the wider community
• Have the ability to use their own initiative and to work as part of a team
• Be calm, consistent and fair – ensuring that children are safe and happy
• Have experience working with Key Stage 2 pupils
What the school offers its staff
Join our welcoming and inclusive school community. We providecontinuous training and professional development, so you can make a real difference in children's learning and future success.
If you're passionate about helping children thrive and achieve, we encourage you to apply.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applicants will ideally:
• Be committed to supporting individual children's social, moral, emotional and academic well-being
• Have an empathetic understanding of children's emotions and behaviour and actively seeks to remove barriers to learning
• Be patient, cheerful and understanding
• Have good interpersonal skills
• Be full of innovative ideas and strategies to adapt to daily challenges
• Communicate effectively with children, team members and the wider community
• Have the ability to use their own initiative and to work as part of a team
• Be calm, consistent and fair – ensuring that children are safe and happy
• Have experience working with Key Stage 2 pupils
What the school offers its staff
Join our welcoming and inclusive school community. We providecontinuous training and professional development, so you can make a real difference in children's learning and future success.
If you're passionate about helping children thrive and achieve, we encourage you to apply.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.