Teaching Assistant - Castlefield School
Location: High Wycombe
Overview
We are looking to recruit highly effective Teaching Assistants to join our friendly and dedicated staff. Previous experience is desirable but induction, support and training will be given.
Job Salary Bucks Pay Spine 1a/5 – 3/20 £23,104 - £29,295) pro rata
Contract Type Permanent
Hours 32.5 hours per week post, Monday – Friday 8:30am – 3:30pm, term time only, including INSET days.
Closing Date for Applications Noon Monday 1st December 2025
About us
Welcome to Castlefield School. We are a large, vibrant, primary school offering high quality educational experiences to children aged between 2 and 11 years old. The pupils, staff and Governors are all very proud to be part of this highly successful school which sits at the heart of its local community.
Keeping the children at the centre of everything we do, we have undertaken many exciting changes over the past few years. These changes have significantly improved standards; ensuring all children make accelerated progress, leaving at the end of Year 6, in line with or above the National expectation and ready for their journey into the future.
As well as providing a high quality education and a wide range of stimulating and exciting opportunities, we also have high expectations in non-academic and extra-curricular areas. This ensures that each and every child can be a success and fulfil their potential.
https://www.castlefieldschool.co.uk/web/home/182910
Visits to our school are encouraged. Please contact the school office on the number above to arrange an appointment to visit. Alternatively, email: [email protected]
The school welcomes applications from all communities, including those from BAME backgrounds, and would actively encourage all appropriately qualified candidates to apply - without hesitation.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Applications from established job shares welcomed.
About the role
We will offer you:
- Hard-working, well-behaved and enthusiastic pupils
- Commitment to your CPD
- A forward-thinking leadership team
- A supportive working environment
- An ambitious, diverse school community with enthusiastic colleagues and supportive Governors and parents/carers.
About you
The successful candidate will be:
- Organised, enthusiastic and highly motivated
- Able to provide creative, enriching and learning opportunities for our children
- Committed to raising standards
- Able to work in a team
- Caring and patient
- Have high standards of numeracy and spoken and written English
- Able to support children with barriers to learning
- Qualified to NVQ Level 3 as a minimum.
Other information
Visits to our school are encouraged. Please contact the school office on the number above to arrange an appointment to visit. Alternatively, email: [email protected]
Closing date: Noon Monday 1st December 2025
Castlefield School reserves the right to interview and recruit before the deadline if suitable candidates apply.
The school welcomes applications from all communities, including those from BAME backgrounds, and would actively encourage all appropriately qualified candidates to apply - without hesitation.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Applications from established job shares welcomed.
Castlefield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. References, an enhanced DBS check and an online profile search will be carried out will be sought from the successful candidate.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
