Teaching Assistant (Full Time)
Teaching Assistant (Level 3)
Salary: Grade 3
Closing date: 2nd May, 12:00 midday
Job start date: 1st September 2025
Occupation – Education – Support Staff Roles - Teaching Assistant
Contract type Term-time, permanent
Enhanced DBS - Yes
Job Information:
St Benedict’s Primary School
St Benedict’s Road
Small Heath
Birmingham
B10 9DP
Join our fantastic school as we strive to fulfil our vision for all children to enjoy their rights and fulfil their dreams.
The Governors are seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant with excellent subject knowledge, compassion and drive who can make a real difference to pupils’ lives. As a Rights Respecting Gold Award school, we would like our staff to share our values and approaches, with a commitment to be a rights bearer for all children.
In return, we can offer you an inclusive school with amazing children who are keen to learn and grow, a committed and dedicated staff team with positive attitudes to teaching and learning and a very supportive Governing Board. St. Benedict’s has been judged as ‘Good’ again by Ofsted (January 2023) and we are very proud of the latest report. Staff development is a real priority and staff here benefit from links we have to other organisations and high-quality CPD.
The post is to begin September 2025.
How to apply:
Visits to the school are strongly encouraged and are available on: 9th April 2pm, 11th April 9am, 28th April 2pm and 4:30pm, 29th April 9am.
Please telephone the school on 0121 464 6420 to make an appointment.
Completed application forms should be emailed to s.arscott@stbendic.bham.sch.uk
Closing date: 2nd May, 12:00 midday
Interviews: WB 2nd June
CVs will not be accepted.
Safeguarding: This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
References: All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Rehabilitation of offenders This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
An application pack and further information is available to view/download below.