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Stanford-le-Hope teaching assistant: school hours and placements

Wooden classroom chairs stacked upside down on desks.
Illustrative stock photo; not the advertised workplace. Photo: Pixabay / Pexels.

A Prospero Teaching vacancy combines full-time classroom support with an 8.30am–3.45pm schedule. Relevant primary-school placements count as experience; the role is not advertised as requiring none.

Full-time support across the school day

Prospero Teaching is recruiting a teaching assistant for an unnamed primary school in Stanford-le-Hope. The advert describes full-time classroom support, with hours of 8.30am–3.45pm and an immediate start.

Those hours are a useful availability check before applying. The description calls the assignment ongoing or long-term, but does not promise a permanent contract or give a fixed end date. Ask the agency to confirm the assignment dates and expected working days.

The school itself is not identified in the supplied advert. Prospero Teaching is acting as an employment business or recruitment agency, and the successful applicant must register with it.

Placements count, but experience is still requested

The experience requirement is support work with children in a UK primary school, and the advert explicitly accepts placements. Relevant placement experience can therefore be considered against the requirement; it should not be described as a vacancy asking for no experience.

Relevant teaching-assistant training or qualifications are listed as desirable. Recent safeguarding training, issued within the previous year, is also described as desirable. These points should stay separate from the advert’s stated requirement for school-support experience.

Prospero says applicants must have the right to work in the UK, provide two professional child-related references, and hold the specified enhanced child barred list DBS on the Update Service or be willing to apply for one. These are the agency’s stated application conditions for this role.

Assess the daily rate without inventing annual pay

The advertised rate is £90–£100 per day, depending on experience. The description does not state annual pay or paid-holiday arrangements, so the daily rate cannot establish either.

Before accepting an assignment, ask the agency which days are paid and how the rate and holiday arrangements will be set out. The school-day timetable helps assess availability; it does not, by itself, establish a year-round earnings figure.

Applying for this assignment

Prospero asks for an up-to-date CV. Use the current job page for the application link and explain how your primary-school work or placement meets the stated experience requirement. This article covers one Reed advert checked on 12 September 2026. The recorded listing expiry is 23 October 2026; the description does not give a separate application deadline.

Jobs mentioned in this article

Job title A–Z / EmployerLocationListing expiryView job
Teaching AssistantProspero TeachingStanford-le-Hope23 Oct 2026View job

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