Teaching Assistant (Additional Needs)

Hempstalls Primary School, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 9LH

5 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  9 March 2026

• Closing date

  27 February 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  13 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,583.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant (Additional Needs) job summary

We are looking for someone who:

Has experience with SEN pupils

Will provide a warm and friendly welcome to all visitors to our school

Will contribute to creating a positive and creative learning environment

Is educated to GCSE (or equivalent) in numeracy and literacy skills

Is qualified to NVQ3 standard for Teaching Assistants

Has excellent ICT, communication and organisational skills

Fully understands and respects the importance of confidentiality

At Hempstalls we are proud of:

Our wonderful, friendly children and their achievements

Our positive and nurturing ethos and our clear values and vision

Our dedicated team of staff

Our inclusion policy for all

Our excellent relationships with parents and the wider community

Our very supportive governors

Our commitment to professional development.

Our Trust motto is ‘Come as you are and Leave as a Champion’. We are looking for someone who will willingly support this ethos.

Hempstalls Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment.  This position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record and other relevant safeguarding information that may make them unsuitable to work with children.

It is an offence to apply for this position if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity.

A copy of the schools Safeguarding Policy can be viewed here: Safeguarding (hempstalls.staffs.sch.uk)

If you are successful in being shortlisted for this post, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence.

School Website:   https://www.hempstalls.staffs.sch.uk/

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 Hempstalls Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 419 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hempstalls Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hempstalls-primary-school-newcastle

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