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Teaching Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 05 December 2025
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 04 January 2026
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 2DF
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 19b5f64b-08fd-43c0-b613-e240ad5865ab

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Hours per week: 28.75

Weeks Per year: Term Time Only

Contract type: Permanent

Start date: ASAP

Applications Close: 05.01.26

Interviews: Friday 16 January 2026

Please note this position also includes 2.5hr a week Lunchtime Cover salaried at SCP 2.

The Opportunity

St Mary’s CE Primary are seeking a friendly, reliable individual to join our nurturing family. You’ll play a vital role in creating a safe, welcoming environment where pupils thrive and staff excel. If you’re committed to excellence, teamwork, and making a real difference in young lives, we want to hear from you.

We are a school where our children are at the heart of our decision making. We know our children as individuals and we tailor our teaching, learning and nurture to their needs. We are proud of our family ethos and celebrate the fact our thriving one form entry school is at the heart of the community.

We are looking for someone special to join our team. Do you have the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to enable children to flourish? Are you a patient, nurturing person who always has a smile on your face? If so, we want you to join us in supporting whole class teaching and learning, leading small group interventions and ensuring all children succeed. If you think you can meet the expectations of our children, then we want you to apply!

We are looking for someone who:

• Relevant school experience working with children who have barriers to learning
• Experience of safeguarding legislation in relation to working with children

Visits to the school are welcomed and can be arranged by contacting James Garden on 01226 206422

What the school offers its staff

Why join Enhance Academy Trust?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a successful and forward-looking academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.

As a Trust, we have developed a range of employee benefits. Here are just a few examples:

• Membership to either the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Physical and mental health support from a team of experienced nurses, counsellors, therapists, physiotherapists, consultants plus NHS GPs and private medical services.
• GP consultations with experienced NHS doctors are available for our employees and members of their household, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and prescriptions (which have to paid for) can be delivered to local chemists.
• Free annual flu jab
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
• A paid annual Wellbeing Day – a time for you to use the day for an activity which promotes your own individual health and wellbeing.
• Wherever possible, PPA at home for teachers.

Commitment to safeguarding

Please visit https://barnsley-stmarys.org.uk/ for further information.

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