Primary Teaching Assistant

Are you an enthusiastic primary teaching assistant looking to make a meaningful difference? At Ark Victoria Academy, you'll be joining a school where pupils thrive at every stage of their education (Ofsted 2024). Our vibrant and diverse community is united by strong values, high expectations, and a shared commitment to ensuring success for all our pupils.

About the role:

We are seeking a committed primary teaching assistant to join our fantastic primary team.

We are looking for:

• Individuals who are passionate with high expectations of themselves and for the pupils they work with
  

• Teaching Assistants who share our aspirations for pupils and will inspire, challenge and motivate them to achieve
  

• A positive attitude, the ability to work well as part of a team and a love of reading
  

We can offer:

• Engaged, well-behaved pupils who love coming to school, enjoy their learning and are respectful, confident individuals
  

• A wide range of professional development opportunities including personalised CPD, coaching, mentoring and regular opportunities to share best practice across the academy and the Ark Network
  

• A staff team who truly support and care for each other
  

• A leadership team who provide substantial support and training to their staff with a genuine focus on career progression
  

• The opportunities that working as part of an all-through provides including a wealth of resources, subject specialists and greater options for staff development working across the phases
  

• Highly supportive parents who work with the school to provide the best education for our pupils
  

• A genuine focus on staff wellbeing; our “Wellbeing Wednesday” treats have been very popular this year!
  

• If you are ready to add further value to our team of Primary TAs and to work alongside a brilliant school leadership team, then you will find this job extremely rewarding.
  

About Ark Victoria Academy

Ark Victoria Academy provides pupils with an excellent education through an ambitious curriculum, personal development and character programme, and an extensive student experience and extra-curricular offer. Although we are a large school, we are able to retain a family feel, to nurture our pupils through their schooling and ensure that they flourish and leave us with the skills and qualifications necessary to continue their journey of life-long learning in a university or career of their choice.

Our school values and virtue pathways are crucial to our culture and ethos, they are also part of the way we work and learn together and have been instrumental to us on our school improvement journey. Our values of Ambition, Resilience and Kindness permeate our curriculum, our culture, school and our learning community.

It is for these reasons that Ark Victoria Academy was judged to be significantly improved in all areas from the 2019 ‘Good’ inspection, by Ofsted, in October 2024:

‘This is a school which lives out its values in full for the benefit of children in Nursery to the pupils in Year 11…pupils thrive at all stages of Ark Victoria Academy…as the school knows its pupils very well, they are very well supported to engage with the school’s ambitious curriculum’. The full report (September 2024) can be found here:

We prioritise staff development with a strong emphasis on securing expert subject knowledge from our teachers, strong teaching and leadership and a focus on excellence for our pupils and staff. Our website can provide more information about Ark Victoria Academy.

Why work for our school?

We value our staff and provide a comprehensive programme of coaching and professional development for all our staff. We use our values and our virtue pathways to shape the way we work and learn together. Hear what our teachers have to say about working at Ark Victoria Academy:

• We take CPD seriously, which is why we offer twice the number of training days as standard
  

• Our school’s ‘Wellbeing Wednesdays’ are a great hit – get in touch to find out more
  

• Our staff can take advantage of our on-site fitness suite
  

• Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering up to £1,000 a year in savings from over 3,000 major retailers
  

• Interest-free loans of up to £5,000 available for season tickets or a bicycles
  

• Gym discounts offering up to 40% off your local gym
  

For an informal conversation about the role please contact HR via 0121 393 4459 or via [email protected].

Please note the school reserves the right to close this advert early and interviews may take place before the advertised closing date. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early for this role to avoid disappointment.

How to Apply:

Please submit your application online by visiting