Classroom Teaching Assistant & MTA Vacancy

Contract: Part Time, Permanent

Required as soon as possible

Salary: Connect Grade C

Hours: 24.17 hours per week, term time only (Mon-Fri 08:30 – 13:20)

Widey Court Primary School are looking to appoint an outstanding and highly motivated part-time Teaching Assistant to join our team as soon as possible.

The successful candidate should have experience working with children in a school environment.

As part of Connect Academy Trust, there may be the opportunity to work in any of our schools in the future. This post is initially situated at Widey Court Primary School.

You could be the person we appoint if you:

• Have a warm, caring, nurturing personality with a friendly disposition.
• Have an NVQ 2/3 qualification (or working towards).
• Have excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
• Have high expectations of pupils’ learning and behaviour.
• Are enthusiastic, flexible and organised with excellent communication skills and initiative.
• Are able to develop positive relationships with children and parents.
• Are passionate about working with children and look forward to joining our friendly team.
• Are able to support pupils to develop independence, self-confidence and social interaction.
• Are able to develop positive behaviour strategies with children.
• Have experience or the ability to work with children with SEND, including Speech, language communication difficulties, ASD and Social & Emotional needs.

To help you achieve this, we can offer you:

• Support to develop your skills through school-centred, multi academy trust wide and external continuing professional development and teamwork;
• Wonderful staff and pupils who are keen to learn;
• A very dedicated team with a strong positive ethos;
• A well-resourced and highly professional school.

If you are interested, please complete an online application form available here.

If you have any issues accessing the application form, or if you have any questions, please contact Miss G. Dingley, School Operations Lead on 01752 773909 or gdingley@wideycourt.plymouth.sch.uk

Closing date: Friday 18th September 2026 @ 9:00am

Interviews: Tuesday 29th September 2026

Connect is fully committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required to be undertaken and an on-line check of publicly available information will be completed to assess the successful candidate’s suitability to work with children.