Teaching Assistant - Term Time

Featherby Infant School, Gillingham

• Ref:MED887-2401-150S
• Posted:02/10/2025
• Pay:Grade D2 (4 - 11) £18,356-£20,878.91 Actual Salary
• Start Date:ASAP
• App Close Date:25/10/2025 at 14:00
• Interviews:7th November

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Join Featherby Partnerships School as a Teaching Assistant
Make a real difference—every day, every child, every moment

Hours:  32.5 hours per week  Contract: Permanent Time Time Only: 39 weeks per year  Actual Salary: Medway D2 Point 4 - 11 £18,356 - £20,878.91 Actual Salary

Are you passionate about helping children achieve their very best? Featherby Partnerships School (part of the Maritime Academy Trust) is seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our supportive team. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside teachers and staff to support children’s learning, development, and wellbeing in a welcoming, community-focused school.

About The Role

As a Teaching Assistant at Featherby, you’ll play an important role in the classroom—helping to create a safe, positive, and engaging environment where every child can thrive. From supporting literacy and numeracy, to building pupils’ confidence and resilience, you’ll make a meaningful difference in their learning journey every single day.

Who You Are

We are looking to appoint someone who is:

• Passionate about supporting children to succeed.
• Confident in literacy and numeracy, able to support learning effectively.
• Experienced in working with primary-aged children (desirable but not essential).
• A strong communicator who thrives in a team environment.
• Reflective, professional, and keen to develop their own practice.
• Able to maintain confidentiality and professionalism at all times.

What We Offer 

At Featherby, we pride ourselves on being a nurturing and ambitious school where every child is encouraged to reach their full potential—and every staff member is valued. As part of the Maritime Academy Trust, we foster collaboration and provide real opportunities for growth.

Here’s what you can expect:

• Work–life balance with term-time only hours.
• A welcoming, family-centred environment, where everyone plays a key role
• Bespoke training and CPD, with online learning through LearnUpon and in-person sessions
• 1:1 digital devices and tools, supporting confidence in the classroom and for admin support
• Access to well-developed outdoor learning spaces, used to enhance the school experience
• Experience within our inclusive SEND provision, supporting a wide range of needs
• Clear pathways for career progression within the school and Trust.
• National terms and conditions, including the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Staff wellbeing initiatives and Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
  
  

Ready to Make a Difference?

We’d love to welcome you for a visit — come and see what makes Featherby Infant & Junior School so special. Please contact the school office on 01634 231984 to arrange.

You’ll find more about the role, school, and Trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached.  Apply now via My New Term — we may interview and appoint as applications are received, so don’t delay!

Featheryby School and the Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online checks in line with safeguarding guidance.

Information about the school

We achieve our vision through a commitment to working in partnership across the Featherby schools, collaboration across Maritime and engagement with other agencies and parents.

We believe that no matter what a child’s starting point may be, they have the potential to achieve and succeed. We achieve this through our curriculum, approach to learning and through developing best practice through partnership. Our thematic curriculum develops children’s skills and knowledge to ensure we equip them for the challenges of life; ensuring they leave us ready for the next stage of their educational journey as 21st Century learners and citizens. Our approach to learning is centred around cognitive science and developing webs of knowledge.

We believe in encouraging independent and resilient learners who have the ability to work collaboratively, embracing known pedagogy, whilst developing new models for learning using the latest technologies and approaches. We actively equip our children with cognitive strategies and functional skills which are proven to support knowledge retention and to develop our children’s webs of knowledge. Our children will take ownership of metacognition adopting the best strategies for them. This will support self-regulation - they will choose the strategies which work for them.

Skills will remain with us forever ensuring we are confident, curious, and resilient learners – proud of who we are and optimistic about what we will achieve, holding high aspirations of ourselves. Ensuring we are ready for the next stage of learning and the 21st Century.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Maritime Academy Trust
• Address:50 John Harrison Way, Greenwich, London, SE10 0BG
• Telephone: 020 8858 0394
• Email: recruitment@maritimeacademytrust.org

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Application Pack