Teaching Assistant (Additional Needs Support)

Thursfield Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 4JL

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  22 February 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  30 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,415.00 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant (Additional Needs Support) job summary

Are you looking for an exciting creative new opportunity?

Thursfield Primary School is seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant, who is a specialist in additional needs, to join its professional and friendly team to provide support in addressing the needs of pupils who need particular help to overcome barriers to learning. The position will be directly linked to a child’s Special Educational Needs and as such will be a fixed-term contract until 31/07/2026.

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 Thursfield 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.

Thursfield 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 on the school website/

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: www.thursfield.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 Thursfield Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 278 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Thursfield Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/thursfield-primary-school-stoke-on-trent

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