Primary Teaching Assistants (x2) Monday—Friday (4 days a week 8.30am—3.45pm, 1 day a week 8.30am—4.00pm) (34 hrs per week, 39 weeks per year) SS (3-6) £18,969—£ 19,882 (Actual) (FTE £24,027—£25,183) The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Closing Date: midday, Tuesday 24th June 2025

The Duston School is looking to appoint a part time Teaching Assistant to add additional capacity to the primary phase. The post is one which requires the performance of the following particular responsibilities: • To work under the supervision of a teacher to plan, deliver and evaluate learning activities for small groups or individual pupils, providing feedback on pupil engagement and their achievement of the desired learning objectives. • To promote the development of pupil's self-reliance, self-esteem and emotional resilience. • To promote, observe and report on pupil performance and development, using assessment strategies to improve learning. • To promote the development of positive relationships and acceptable behaviour in accordance with school policy. • To develop positive relationships with colleagues, providing consistent and effective support and working constructively as a member of the school staff team. • To support pupils to improve their numeracy and literacy skills through focused learning activities and more generally across the curriculum. • To support with the planning and implementation of education pupil education / behaviour plans and personal care programmes, when necessary while promoting independence, inclusion and equality. • To prepare and support the use of learning materials, monitor and maintain curriculum resources, and create visual displays in order to ensure an orderly and purposeful physical learning environment. • To provide care and encouragement to children and young people with disabilities or special educational needs, supporting them to participate in activities and liaising, if required, with parents / carers / other professionals as appropriate. • To encourage participation in structured and unstructured learning activities, including play while undertaking lunchtime duties, timetabled activities and during breaks. • To contribute to assessing and developing plans to meet the personal support needs of children and young people with additional requirements, and assist in the implementation and evaluation of the plans. • To escort and supervise pupils on educational visits and out of school activities, ensuring their health, safety and well-being, as required, and take responsibility for a group of pupils under the supervision of the teacher to meet service delivery requirements. • To support, as appropriate, in instances where pupils are unwell whilst at the school or require basic medical aid

Do you want to work in a hugely successful nationally hailed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the centre of all that is does? In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is:

Built upon strong values and principles

• Places people at the heart of all that it does and a strong positive approach to workload and wellbeing

• Heavily over-subscribed

• Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded

• Served as a Behaviour Hub Lead School

• The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE and A Level outcomes since 2019 have ensured the school is both locally, regionally and nationally high performing, placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools

• GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2024 were the best in the school’s history

• A school of Character

• An Investors in People Gold School and Wellbeing

• An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School and National Champion School

• A Global Equality Collective School

• The home of ResearchED Northampton

• A PKC Curriculum Hub

• An Ofsted ‘Good’ school

• Has its own alternative provision; The Positive Impact Centre (PIC)

 

The school offers competitive working conditions and packages, including:

• Future progression resides at the heart of the school’s ethos

• Personalised and bespoke CPD is offered to all staff

• Opportunities to attend external CPD courses and visiting other schools are positively encouraged

• An enhanced induction programme to support all new staff to the school, with a bespoke package of support for ECT’s.

• Westfield Health - Private Health Plan for permanent, salaried employees

• On-site car parking

• A laptop

• On-site Before & After School Club for Primary Phase pupils available *

• A detailed Workload Charters, which sets out the school’s commitment to support all staff with their workload

• No emails are sent at weekends nor holidays, we respect as a school the need to rest

• Co-planning is a guiding principle upon which our curriculum is built, with the use of workbooks and knowledge organisers across the school

• On-site restaurant for staff to use on a daily basis

• The lion share of directed meeting time is handed to staff to work on the curriculum

• Two faculty away days • 4 traded days (which includes one day off to thank staff for the extra miles that they go)

• A priority place for staff children at the school

• Face-to-face meetings for all staff with the Principal to discuss your wellbeing, professional development and career aspirations • Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for teaching staff

• Membership of the LGPS Pension Scheme for nonteaching staff For support staff

• Generous Holiday entitlement, including bank holidays (or pro-rata of) which increases with service

• Non-contractual discretionary days leave for school shutdown over Christmas * Fees apply Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to application