Teaching Assistant

Barnard Grove Primary School, Hartlepool, TS24 9SD

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  9 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 June 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: Part time: 30 hours per week, term time only (190 days per year). Working schedule 8.30am – 3.30pm.
• Contract type: Fixed term - likely to last until 31st August 2026
• Actual salary: £16,918.69
• Pay scale: Band 5 Spinal Column Point 5

What skills and experience we're looking for

The school wish to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic and imaginative Teaching Assistant to support the learning of pupils. A focus of this role will be to provide one to one support to a pupil. This position would be to commence on 1st September 2025.

Applicants will possess NVQ Level 2 or equivalent. The school is looking for applicants with excellent communication and ICT skills, who can develop effective relationships with pupils and colleagues, and be able to follow teachers’ plans.

Candidates will have experience of working as a classroom or teaching assistant within a primary school environment.

Candidates should be suitably qualified and experienced and be able to meet the criteria detailed on the person specification.

What the school offers its staff

The successful candidate will:

• Work in a school with a highly supportive, warm, friendly, and respectful ethos, and the drive and ambition to ensure that all members of staff, and children, achieve their full potential.
• Have the privilege of engaging with hard-working, highly motivated children.
• Have opportunity to further develop their skills through a variety of professional development opportunities.

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@adastraacademytrust.com

CVs are not accepted.

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.

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About Barnard Grove Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 325 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Barnard Grove Primary School website
• Email address: lee.walker@barnardgrove.adastraschools.org
• Phone number: 01429 230300
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/barnard-grove-primary-school-hartlepool

Arranging a visit to Barnard Grove Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lee.walker@barnardgrove.adastraschools.org.

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