EYFS Level 3 Teaching Assistant Barton Park Primary School
within The River Learning Trust,OX3 9WN
Grade 5, 32.5 hours per week Mon-Fri, permanent role, start December 2025
Are you a caring and inclusive teaching assistant with a passion to support children's learning and social development in a growing community? We are seeking an experienced Early Years professional to work within our supportive and excellent Early Years team at Barton Park. You will be experienced with children from birth - 5 and have a good knowledge of how children develop and learn. As an experienced practitioner, you will know that no two days will be the same: at times, you may be guiding learning through play in one of our new and well equipped classrooms, or outside in our specially designed playground or forest school site. You might be working 1:1, leading a recognised intervention following your latest professional training, or leading a group time activity with our curious children. This is a permanent post at grade 5. Grade 6 applications will be considered for those with the relevant skills and experience. Job share applications or requests for part time hours will be considered.
What skills / experience are required
- A recognised level 3 certificate in Childcare and Education is essential, due to EY ratio guidance.
- Experience of leading learning with preschool and/or reception aged children and a good understanding of how children learn.
- Understanding of the importance of inclusion for all.
- Patience and a non judgemental attitude.
- A flexible approach to your work and excellent team working skills.
- A problem solver and team-player who will contribute positively to our small staff team.
- Good interpersonal skills, to support positive relationships with all, including parents/carers.
- Good level of written English, to support observations (assessment of learning.)
- A desire to further your own professional development through targeted training to support the needs of children in your care.
- Knowledge and compliance with policies and procedures relevant to child protection and health and safety.
What we can offer / about our schoolBarton Park Primary school sits in the centre of a diverse new community, on the north eastern edge of Oxford, and supports children from a wide range of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. We are judged a 'good' school and are at an exciting stage of our development, building upon the existing successes and growing in both size and strength. We have high aspirations for all our children. We aim to build on each child's natural curiosity and help them become enquiring, resilient and confident learners, able to communicate their ideas to both peers and adults. Quality teaching, targeted support and enriching, open-ended learning opportunities - alongside well planned indoor and outdoor environments - allow all children to develop their thinking skills, independence and individual talents.
Our school is new and growing each year. It is popular within our local community: our early years classes are oversubscribed and have waiting lists. Parents speak highly of the opportunities we provide the children and our wonderful new facilities. We have developed a forest school site locally, and have an emergent orchard and wildlife area onsite, as well as a fabulous outdoor EYFS area, including a kitchen garden. Our 6 values are embedded in all we do and our children are welcoming and keen to learn. You would join a small, motivated and dedicated team of professionals, serving a newly opened school at the heart of a growing community. We call our teaching assistants teaching partners, as we recognise that they are an essential part of a teaching team. Wellbeing is taken seriously by leaders; be that by supporting opportunities for career development, or flexible working arrangements accommodated to support parental commitments.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR 'WHY?' is that children and young people 'only get one go' in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible 'go' for our pupils.
OUR 'HOW?' is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our " Working in RLT " guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with the Headteacher or Early Years Lead, about the role, prior to application, then please email office@bartonparkprimary.org or telephone 01865415800 to arrange.
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
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