Senior Teaching Assistant + After School Club Assistant

Senior Teaching Assistant + After School Club Assistant  

Required 1st June 2026
Permanent, term-time + 1 week
Part-time: STA Mon-Fri 8.45am – 3.15pm (30 hours)
Part-time: After School Club Assistant Mon – Thu 3.15pm – 4.45pm (6 hours)
36 hours per week
We are looking for a passionate and creative senior teaching assistant to join our happy and inclusive school community.  This post is being offered on a permanent basis for 30 hours a week (8.45am– 3.15pm) as a senior teaching assistant, then supporting after school club for an additional 6 hours a week from 3.15pm– 4.45pm, Monday to Thursday. 

PCD7 £28598 - £29540 pro rata

We are looking for a passionate and creative senior teaching assistant to join our happy and thriving school from the 1st June 2026.  

We offer: 
•    Well-motivated, well-behaved children who have a thirst for knowledge. 
•    A friendly and hard-working staff team who support each other. 
•    A supportive Governing Body and Headteacher, committed to reducing workload to enable everyone to focus fully on delivering wonderful opportunities for children. 
•    A commitment to your professional development. 
•    A focus on the happiness of every child and every member of staff. 
•    A well-resourced, forward-looking school where staff are given the professional freedom to innovate with teaching and learning. 
•    An inclusive school with an ethos which puts the children at the very heart of all our decisions.

We are looking for:
•    Someone with high expectations of themselves and the children they teach. 
•    Someone who is self-motivated, acts on initiative and with the ability to motivate, inspire and challenge children. 
•    Someone who will go the extra-mile for our children and our school. 
•    Someone who is a great team player, cares about children and has a great sense of humour.
•    Someone with a track-record of supporting children to succeed through highly effective SEND adaptive practice.

We’d welcome applications from people with experience in one or more of the following areas: 
•    Supporting children with additional needs 
•    Delivering pre-school provision including leading inputs
•    Assessing children through the Early Years
•    Developing outdoor learning

The successful applicant will be knowledgeable about the Early Years, and have experience of pre-school provision: planning and delivering exciting learning opportunities that promote strong development. We are also looking for someone who is skilled at adapting learning for SEND children and will have a track record of supporting pupils to make sustained progress.  As a senior teaching assistant, you will need to be highly motivated, take initiative, be a positive role model and always be seeking ways to improve your practice. 

In this role, you will take responsibility for developing areas of continuous provision, delivering small group inputs including teaching phonics, and engaging in high-quality interactions with children to develop their interests, vocabulary and learning. The successful applicant will also support lunchtimes for thirty minutes each day promoting positive play. As this is a permanent post we a looking to the long-term needs of the school.

We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all children and we expect all staff to uphold this commitment. Appointments will be subject to satisfactory checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service and suitable references.

Applications should be made on the Westmorland and Furness Application Form available from the school website https://www.holmeschool.cumbria.sch.uk/about-us/vacancies with a covering letter on one side of A4 which highlights the impact of your work.

Application closing date: Thursday 16th April 2026 at noon.

Interviews will take place on Monday 20th April 2026.  

Visits to the school are encouraged. Please contact the school office to arrange a convenient time.