Vacancy:  Part-time Teaching Assistant

12.5 hours per week - Hours:  Mon 08:10 - 16:10, Tues 08:10 - 12:40

Closing Date:  3 November 2025

Interview Date:  w/c 10 November 2025

We wish to recruit an outstanding, experienced Teaching Assistant to join our dedicated team.  At St Hugh's we are passionate and committed to ensuring that our curriculum is engaging and inspiring, with high levels of creativity and innovation in our teaching and learning across the school.  Our ultimate aim is to provide children with access to a broad range of experiences and challenges so that every child reaches their full potential and flourishes.  

Applicants will:

• Have experience of working with children with additional learning needs
• Be a great team player who is an effective communicator and can work successfully in collaboration with others
• Be dedicated to inspiring and enabling children to flourish despite their challenges.  Your dedication is paramount to their success
• Be motivated, flexible, possess strong interpersonal skills, use their own initiative and have a keen sense of humour
• Be able to positively promote inclusion and have high expectations for all children
• Have an NVQ2 qualification and/or equivalent GCSE Maths and English at C+

Please see Person Specification.

Please highlight if you have any of the following:

• Experience of working with children with sensory processing difficulties and social, emotional and mental health difficulties

We can offer you:

• An attractive, well-resourced working environment with excellent facilities and supportive families
• A committed, hardworking and supportive team
• Happy children with a passion for learning

St Hugh's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  Consequently an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for this post. 

Salary according to qualifications and experience of the appointee.  Start date to be confirmed.

Please complete an application form (pdf or Word) and a CV together with the names of 2 referees who we may contact before interview, and send to recruitment@st-hughs.lincs.sch.uk.

For further information please contact Kate Waite on kwaite@st-hughs.lincs.sch.uk or 01526 352169.

Visits to the school are encouraged, please contact us to discuss further.  

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We welcome speculative enquiries from prospective employees. Please complete an application form (pdf or Word) and return it to recruitment@st-hughs.lincs.sch.uk and we will be in contact should there be any suitable opportunities.

St Hugh’s School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children at the School. A review of open source social media and online content will be conducted after candidates have been shortlisted and you may be asked about this at interview. The appointment will be subject to a successful disclosure check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. This will give details of all spent and unspent convictions and other recordable matters. A policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders is available, if required, from the School Office. The supplied references will be taken up and the School may approach previous employers for information to verify particular experience or qualifications. A medical questionnaire will be required to be completed by the successful candidate.