Competitive salary and benefits

Full Time, Permanent

January 2025

27 December 2024

We are currently welcoming applications from teaching assistants who have a willingness to contribute fully to life at Garden House School. Ideally, candidates should be graduates with a desire to become a teacher in the future or professionals with a relevant level 3 qualification.
Applicants should be enthusiastic and confident and able to support and inspire children to foster their eagerness for learning. They will also have the skills and maturity required to take on the teaching assistant duties and responsibilities outlined in the job description.
Successful candidates will receive a competitive salary and benefits and will join a highly supportive and friendly working community where collaboration across all parts of the school is the norm. We are unashamedly proud of the fact that our staff look forward to coming to school as much as our children.
Benefits:

• Paid school holidays (this amounts to a minimum of 16 weeks’ fully paid holiday during the academic year)
• Option to participate in extra cross-curricular activities (paid in addition to salary)
• Opportunities for staff development
• Free school lunch (during term-time)
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Staff fitness
• Recruitment bonus
• Staff social events
• Contributory pension scheme

Applications will be considered upon receipt, so an early application is encouraged.
Please send your application as soon as possible.
Garden House School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Applicants must produce evidence of their right to work in the UK.
Garden House School is committed to increasing and promoting diversity at all levels within our school. We warmly welcome applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds.

Welcome to Garden House School
We believe in a happy and well-spent childhood.
Garden House is a joyful, vibrant, purposeful school in the heart of Chelsea for girls and boys between the ages of 3 and 11.
From the age of 4, girls and boys are taught separately for academic lessons but have numerous opportunities to interact and collaborate with each other during the school day, giving our children the very best of both worlds.
We are supported by an outstanding team of dedicated teachers and assistants who recognise and celebrate every child as an individual, enabling them to succeed. We are unashamedly proud that Garden House staff look forward to coming to school just as much as our children.
Garden House is an extended family, and we believe a parental partnership in education is vital to achieving our aims.
Our Kindness Code was established in 1998. It is a set of seven principles for living and working happily and successfully with friends, teachers and the entire school community. It underpins everything that we do, and is central to our outstanding pastoral care.
We aim to equip our children for success and happiness in their future lives through a strong sense of self-worth. They are given the foundations to become independent, creative and critical thinkers, to be resilient and reflective, to make mistakes and to learn from them. They develop confidence, grace and courage. They are encouraged to take an interest in the people around them, to be curious about their surroundings and to grasp the opportunities that life presents, showing a desire to make a difference.
Garden House children understand and appreciate the ideals which underpin British Values. They develop skills to communicate readily and effectively and to listen respectfully to the views of others; acknowledging that listening is at least as important as speaking. Our pupils appreciate the value of a team and enjoy operating as part of one, recognising how collaboration can enhance individual performance.
Above all, they are kind.
The Garden House School Motto encapsulates this inclusive stance:
‘Non sibi sed omnibus – Not for one, for all’

How to Find Us

Underground
Turn left out of Sloane Square station and cross the road to enter Sloane Gardens. Turn left at the end of the street and immediately cross Lower Sloane Street at the zebra crossing. Walk straight ahead following the curve of the pavement. You are now on Turks Row and the School is on your right.
Bus
22: from Putney or Oxford St
211: from Waterloo
19 and 137: from Battersea
11: from Liverpool St
452: from Vauxhall
Car
Unfortunately there is no parking on site for visitors. There are parking spaces on surrounding roads subject to RBKC meters.
T: 020 7730 1652
E: sarah@gardenhouseschool.co.uk