Location: King Charles C of E Primary School, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Education Phases: Primary;

Job Roles: Teaching Assistant;

Application Deadline: Thursday, 15th October 2026

Interview Date: Week commencing 9th November 2026- TBC

Expected Working Start Date: ASAP

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Is a Shared Job: No

About us

Being a Church School, Christian values are at the heart of all that we do and they support us in our aim to prepare our pupils for life. We pride ourselves on our caring, nurturing, exciting and enabling environment in which every child can thrive, feel safe and achieve; where everyone will shine.

At King

Charles, relationships are key to ensuring that we provide the best possible experience that a primary school can offer. We place excellent emphasis on building positive relationships with everyone in our school community: families, pupils, staff and the wider community. Our school's values of Friendship, Creativity, Aspiration, Teamwork and Achievement are the cornerstones of all that we do. We are passionate that our values serve everyone in our school family, not just the pupils in our school. Friendship is evident in the way in which all members of our school community build positive and respectful relationships. Teamwork is everywhere at King Charles. Our staff teams, colleagues and schools within our Trust, Kernow Learning, partners and our pupils’ ability to work alongside each other. Achievement is central to the purpose of King Charles. Committed staff, partnerships with families, and pupils’ desire to achieve all enable our pupils to thrive.

We are seeking a Teaching Assistant to join our skilled TA team. Experience of working in a primary school classroom is desirable and the ideal candidate for this role will have good communication skills and a real enthusiasm and enjoyment of working with children to support them to be their very best.



Experience of working with children with SEND would be an advantage.

These are fixed term variable hours contracts until 31 August 2027, with initial hours of 30 hours per week, term time only..

Please see attached for more information in the documents section below.

Benefits

As well as offering great schools to work in, wonderful children to work, with and fantastic colleagues to work alongside, our Trust is committed to providing colleagues with other benefits that make your employment with Kernow Learning the best it can be. We offer:

- A competitive salary and membership of Local Government Pension Scheme
- A real commitment to wellbeing, including access to 24/7 wellbeing services and employee assistance programme
- Access to discounts with national and local retailers and service providers
- A range of CPD and training opportunities, both internally and externally, learning from local and national speakers and specialists to support your professional growth
- The support and skills of our networks of colleagues both within our schools and our Shared Services teams

Kernow Learning is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and follows the Safer Recruitment process. The successful candidate will be expected to share this commitment and will be required to undertake checks including an enhanced disclosure through the DBS process, as well as prohibition, S128, and Social Media/online presence checks.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all.

Unfortunately, Kernow Learning is not a sponsoring organisation for overseas candidates. This means that the successful candidate will need to possess the right to work in the UK or be bale to secure the right to work in the UK independently.

Desired Criteria

Please see attached for more information in the documents section below. Essential Criteria

Please see attached for more information in the documents section below. Documents

📌 Teaching Assistant (Cornwall)
🏢 King Charles Church of England Primary School
📍 Cornwall