Primary Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 15 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2026 |
| Location: | Dagenham, Essex, RM8 1JU |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 344646a6-082b-428a-94c7-9f030117157b |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The person we require will:
• Have successful previous experience of working with children.
• Have clear knowledge and understanding of the principles of child development and learning processes within either EYFS and/or Key Stage 1 or 2.
• Be supportive, nurturing and understanding with high expectations.
• Seek to make learning exciting and a positive experience.
• Communicate well with parents, carers and members of staff, as well as pupils.
• Demonstrate good communication skills both orally and written.
• Have a good standard of literacy and numeracy.
• Have NVQ2 for Teaching Assistants (or equivalent) or be willing to work towards the qualification.
• Work well as part of a team.
• Be extremely patient, adaptable, flexible and willing to listen.
• Be willing to support pupils with basic hygiene needs and support them towards gaining independence.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A supportive working culture that values staff at all levels and invests in people.
• Working with the teaching and support staff as part of a team.
• Opportunities to continue your own professional development.
• A dynamic working environment.
Further details about the role
Robert Clack Primary School is looking to recruit Teaching Assistants who are passionate about developing young minds, providing play-based learning opportunities and creating an immersive learning environment where our pupils can flourish. We are a small, friendly and supportive team in a new primary school, which opened in September 2021.
Please note that this post may, at times, involve working one-to-one with allocated pupils who have SEND. However, depending on service need and the ongoing growth of the school, the job role may also involve being allocated to a class at any time to provide general class Teaching Assistant support. We therefore expect applicants to be flexible and willing to be either class-based or to provide small intervention group or one-to-one work with individual pupils.
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.
The person we require will:
• Have successful previous experience of working with children.
• Have clear knowledge and understanding of the principles of child development and learning processes within either EYFS and/or Key Stage 1 or 2.
• Be supportive, nurturing and understanding with high expectations.
• Seek to make learning exciting and a positive experience.
• Communicate well with parents, carers and members of staff, as well as pupils.
• Demonstrate good communication skills both orally and written.
• Have a good standard of literacy and numeracy.
• Have NVQ2 for Teaching Assistants (or equivalent) or be willing to work towards the qualification.
• Work well as part of a team.
• Be extremely patient, adaptable, flexible and willing to listen.
• Be willing to support pupils with basic hygiene needs and support them towards gaining independence.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A supportive working culture that values staff at all levels and invests in people.
• Working with the teaching and support staff as part of a team.
• Opportunities to continue your own professional development.
• A dynamic working environment.
Further details about the role
Robert Clack Primary School is looking to recruit Teaching Assistants who are passionate about developing young minds, providing play-based learning opportunities and creating an immersive learning environment where our pupils can flourish. We are a small, friendly and supportive team in a new primary school, which opened in September 2021.
Please note that this post may, at times, involve working one-to-one with allocated pupils who have SEND. However, depending on service need and the ongoing growth of the school, the job role may also involve being allocated to a class at any time to provide general class Teaching Assistant support. We therefore expect applicants to be flexible and willing to be either class-based or to provide small intervention group or one-to-one work with individual pupils.
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.