Early Years Teaching Assistant

Hartlebury CofE Primary School, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY11 7TD

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  21 November 2025

• Closing date

  3 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: TA2, point 5 £25,583 FTE

Early Years Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant (TA2)

TA2, point 5 £25,583 FTE

37 hours per week, Term Time only

Temporary position until 31st August 2026 available

Available from January 2026

Hartlebury CE VC Primary School are looking to appoint a Qualified Level 3 Early Years Teaching Assistant to join their dedicated and established team.

We have a new opportunity for an Early Years Teaching Assistant to support children in the classroom, in small groups and individually to facilitate learning that will improve their outcomes. The successful candidate will support our values and ethos, have high expectations of themselves and those around them and show a commitment to developing young learners to help them succeed. This post requires good experience in working with children in schools and an understanding of children with special educational needs.

We are dedicated to the development and support of our team, with a range of opportunities through nationally accredited programs and in school experiences. Our school has an experienced and supportive staff team and a commitment to improving the wellbeing of the team, guided by our influential staff council. We want all voices to have an active role in our improvement journey. Being part of Severn Academies Educational Trust enables collaboration with best practices across our schools to provide the very best opportunities for our students.

Severn Academies Educational Trust is committed to harnessing talent and developing its people. There is also the opportunity to undertake further training and development in related disciplines.

Other benefits include:

• Generous Occupational Pension
• Free confidential Employee Health and Well-being service including access to counselling support
• Free confidential employee helpline 24/7
• Incremental pay progression and cost of living increases in line with government policy
• Flexible working arrangements to support colleagues with work-life balance.

For further details of the post, please refer to the job description and person specification available.

Hartlebury CE VC Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced clearance by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please submit an application form via eteach by the closing date: 9am Wednesday 3rd December with interviews being held shortly after. 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Hartlebury CofE Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 178 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hartlebury CofE Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hartlebury-cofe-primary-school

At Hartlebury CofE VC Primary School we have a nurturing environment embedded with the core Christian values of Compassion, Respect and Forgiveness. This trinity of Christian values is underpinned by many other values that we learn about and develop throughout the year. Although our values are not exclusively Christian we approach them through the teachings of Jesus and develop our understanding from this Christian viewpoint.

We strive to create a school family that nurtures and supports the whole school community; treating everyone with compassion, respect and forgiveness.

We are dedicated to the development and support of our team, with a range of opportunities through nationally accredited programs and in school experiences. Our school has an experienced and supportive staff team and a commitment to improving the wellbeing of the team. Being part of Severn Academies Educational Trust enables collaboration with best practices across our schools to provide the very best opportunities for our students.

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