Job Description

Junior School Teaching Assistant

Chigwell School seeks to appoint a caring and enthusiastic teaching assistant. The role will involve working alongside teaching staff to support learning activities at our Junior School. This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful school and develop your career with an outstanding team of staff. Successful applicants need to be able to work closely as part of a team, be flexible and have excellent literacy, numeracy and communication skills. This position is full time during term time.

Chigwell School offers a competitive salary and benefits package and a supportive working environment. There is a well-developed programme of professional development, pupils are enthusiastic, co-operative and able, and colleagues are dedicated and get on well together. There is a strong sense of community.

We are located in the picturesque village of Chigwell just 10 miles from central London and on the Central Line. Close to the edge of Epping Forest, we enjoy over 100 acres of beautiful grounds.

For further details please visit our website (www.chigwell-school.org/vacancies). Applicants should complete the support staff application form which can be accessed below and sent to the HR department: hr@chigwell-school.org. The Learning Support Coordinator, Mrs Natasha Spicer, will be happy to answer any questions; she can be contacted at the School by telephone 020 8501 5700 or email nspicer@chigwell-school.org

Closing date: 18th April 2021

Applications will be considered as they are received so early applications are encouraged.

Chigwell School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening including checks with past employers and DBS.

Information about the School

Chigwell School is a leading independent foundation offering a first class education to boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 18.

We offer children a balanced education in a stable, traditional environment, but one nonetheless focused on the future. Renowned for our high academic standards, we set equal store by our wide range of extra-curricular activities, our well-developed sense of pastoral care, and the spiritual dimension to our life. Chigwell School is, above all, a community in which children can grow, for we seek to develop the whole person, so that ultimately he or she can enter the fast changing world of the 21st century with confidence and make a really positive contribution.

We work closely with parents and believe strongly in a partnership between school and home. When Chigwellians finally leave school, most have achieved academic results of which they can feel very proud and which enable them to thrive at university. Beyond that point, we want them to be eminently employable, able to work in teams, to get things done, to be resourceful, able to communicate, adaptable and always able to learn more.

We hope that the Chigwell pupils of today will make good citizens in the future, secure and confident in their own beliefs, and tolerant of others.