Combined Individual Needs Assistant/Teaching Assistant (St Mary the Virgin CoE Primary School)

Hours of work: 27.5 hours per week

Working pattern: Part-time, term-time only (working for 39 weeks per year plus 5.6 weeks annual leave, which will increase after 5 years' continuous service)

(As the position is part-time & term-time only, the above salary will be pro rata)

Fixed term until: 22 July 2027

Closing date: 01 September 2026

For more information and to apply for the above post, please contact:

St Mary the Virgin CoE Primary School

High St, Hartfield TN7 4AA

Phone: 01892 770221

Email: [email protected]

Website: St. Mary the Virgin Church of England School, Hartfield

Please note, we do not accept CVs.

St Mary the Virgin CE Primary School is a small, thriving, friendly, village school, with a dedicated and enthusiastic staff and happy children. We have mixed-age classes for KS1 and KS2 with Reception on its own. Our latest Ofsted Report (April 2025) said 'Pupils delight in attending this welcoming school’, and 'the school’s vision of pupils ‘being the best that they can be in a thriving community’ is evident throughout the school’. We are committed to providing a learning environment where all our children feel happy, valued, motivated, included and strive to do their best.

The Governors and Executive Head teacher are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, self-motivated and creative INA/TA to join our supportive and friendly team as a Classroom Teaching Assistant and to assist with the implementation of a pupil’s EHCP. You will work across the school under the direction of the Head teacher and SENCO. Duties and responsibilities will include:

• To deliver planned learning effectively to ensure that pupils have the opportunity to achieve their individual targets.
• To use high quality strategies that keep pupils engaged.
• To work as part of a team to maintain a safe and stimulating learning environment, that supports learning and in which pupils feel secure, confident and able to take risks in their learning.

Experience in peg feeding and oxygen administration welcome although all training can be provided.

The candidate must be flexible, a good manager of time, able to keep good records and make keen observations in order to support next steps of learning.

The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively with pupils, staff and visiting professionals.

You will be working alongside the Inclusion Manager to provide specialist interventions.

Please contact the school if you would like more details or visit our website for a job application form

Interview date: Tuesday 08 September 2026

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff will be expected to hold or be willing to obtain an enhanced DBS check or Enhanced check for Regulated Activity with the Disclosure & Barring Services and complete a Childcare Disqualification Application form.

This post is covered by the Childcare Disqualification Regulations 2018.

The school will need to ensure that they are not knowingly employing a person who is disqualified under the 2018 Regulations in connection with relevant childcare provision. Accordingly, the successful candidate will be required to demonstrate to the school, by completing a self-declaration form as part of the pre-employment checks process, that they have not been disqualified under the 2018 Regulations.

If the preferred candidate is found to be disqualified under the 2018 Regulations, the offer of employment will be subject to the application by the preferred candidate to Ofsted for a waiver and the receipt of a waiver from Ofsted.

Additional Information

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff will be expected to hold or be willing to obtain Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced check for Regulated Activity with the Disclosure & Barring Services (previously the Criminal Records Bureau). For further information about what is required in this process please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-check-applicant-criminal-record.

All school based staff have the responsibility for promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children. All school staff should be aware of the school’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and work in accordance with this document at all times.