1:1 Learning Support Assistant with Named Child - Fixed Term

Chilham St Mary's CEP School, Canterbury

• Ref:KCC886-3138-79S
• Posted:04/06/2025
• Pay:KSA-2025 Pro Rata
• Start Date:September 2025
• App Close Date:18/06/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:Wednesday 25th June 2025

Advert

We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant to join our friendly team to provide 1:1 support.  This role will involve working alongside our teaching team to nurture, support and engage a KS2 pupil from 8.45am-12.45pm daily. 

The ideal candidate will be positive, highly motivated and flexible. They will show care and nurture for the pupils, ensuring that their emotional needs are met. They will be passionate about education and motivated to bring the joy of learning to these pupils at their accessible level.  

Previous experience of working with children in a school setting would be preferable, but any experience with SEN would be useful.  

Our ideal candidate will have: 

• A good understanding of child development  

• A transferrable and adaptable skill set 

• A kind, nurturing and patient nature 

• Consistent boundaries and expectations  

• Creative and inventive approaches to learning 

• Great team work and communication  

• Flexibility and initiative  

• A growth mindset and a positive outlook 

Things that we can offer you: 

• A warm welcome and a highly supportive staff team 

• A kind, caring ethos with genuine concern for your wellbeing 

• A positive workplace full of smiling children 

• Clear policies and procedures 

• Opportunities for tailored CPD in school 

Please see the attached Job Description for more details. 

This is  a term time contract, linked to high needs funding allocated to the pupils. The hours are Monday to Friday, 8.45am - 12.45pm.

Visits to the school are welcome and encouraged. If you wish to visit  for a tour with our headteacher Miss Dolan, please make an appointment by contacting us at our school office on 01227 730442 or by emailing us at office@chilham.kent.sch.uk. 

We are fully committed to safeguarding and protecting the children at Chilham St  Mary's. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, which includes enhanced criminal records and barring check, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for this role, if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.  Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practices across the school. On joining, you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice, and safeguard our children and young people.

Information about the school

Chilham St. Mary's is a friendly school with a real family atmosphere located in the heart of our historic village. Each child is valued as unique and filled with potential which we seek to nurture and encourage.

We are a small school with 4 classes of wonderful, hardworking children led by a dedicated team of education professionals. We are housed in five beautiful buildings on one site, two of which are Victorian and one dates back to the Tudor era.

We have strong and supportive links with the local community and the church, and we pride ourselves on our strong christian vision and values. The school plays a role in the village Remembrance Service in November and the lighting of the Christmas Tree in the Village Square each December.

We embrace small community rural living with visits to our local fire station and regular visits to the mobile library. We have regular forest school sessions enabling our children to access the curriculum in new and exciting ways. Our Year 6 children take part in a hugely enjoyable residential trip each year and also take part in the annual Cathedral Day organised by the Diocese of Canterbury.

Chilham St Mary’s has a vibrant P.T.A. that organise events and activities throughout the year. The school is also an associate member of the CARE collaboration family of schools.

Job Contact Information

• Name:School Office
• Address:School Hill, Chilham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 8DE
• Telephone: 01227 730442
• Email: office@chilham.kent.sch.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Job Description and Person Specification