Teaching Assistant - Maternity Cover - 19 July 2026

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Thank you for your interest in our job vacancy. Please go to www.epchs.co.uk to download the application form and other related documents. You will find the vacancies on the menu tab and staff vacancies. Please complete the online application only as fully as possible and explain any gaps in your employment history. We cannot accept other application forms. We would like to understand more about how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the job description and person specification for the role.

Teaching Assistant

Maternity Cover

Actual Salary - Grade 5 £13,722 - £14,859

23.33 hours per week over 4 days –term time only

To start as soon as possible

Fixed Term until 19 July 2026

In addition to the above, we offer an employee assistance Programme to you and your family, continued professional development, an excellent staff wellbeing Programme, and an attractive pension scheme.

Governors are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, hardworking, and experienced Teaching Assistant to join our team.

This will be a demanding, as well as a highly rewarding role and the successful candidate will form part of an exceptional team of highly committed and dedicated staff.

Previous experience is essential as well a commitment to providing the best for children. A strength in supporting literacy or numeracy would be an advantage.

Further information and application packs can be obtained from the school website www.epchs.co.uk or by contacting the school on 0151 355 2373. Completed applications are to be returned to Human.Resources@epchs.co.uk or posted to Miss T Moore.

Visits to the school prior to application are welcome; please contact the school to arrange.

Closing date: 8.00am on Monday 20th October 2025

Interviews: from 9.00am on Thursday 23rd October 2025

IMPORTANT

THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT

The provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job, YOU MUST, THEREFORE, DISCLOSE WHETHER YOU HAVE ANY PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE APPLICATION FORM.

EPCHS is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check and online search.