Teaching Assistant

St Giles' and St George's Church of England Academy, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 2NB

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  6 October 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  26 September 2025

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 FTE, actual salary £19,514
• Additional allowances:

  £25,583 FTE, actual salary £19,514

Teaching Assistant job summary

Welcome to St Giles’ and St George’s Academy, We are a Church of England school who believe in building strong, positive relationships between our pupils, parents, staff, governors and the community and we welcome visitors to our school. We are looking to appoint a passionate and hard-working Teaching Assistant to join our staff team.

This role will work 8.30am - 3.30pm with a 30-minute lunch break and is term time only, fixed-term until 31st August 2027.

Inspired by our Christian faith, we guide children on a personalised journey towards achievement. As a learning community, we are committed to ensuring that children are equipped with, skills and aspirations to reach their full potential in mind, body, heart and spirit.

One of the lasting impressions visitors to our school comment on is the behaviour, manners and productivity of the learners in an orderly, quiet and calm environment. Children are really inspired to learn here because their teachers provide them with learning opportunities that are motivational, they encourage children’s curiosity, intellectual thinking yet are achievable and interesting. The second aspect of our school that is frequently commented upon by visitors to the school, is the safe, secure setting. We have a large diverse site, huge grassed areas, a little ‘forest’, pond area, play trails and four different playgrounds where children learn to get along with each other relax and learn in a different context.

A real strength of St Giles' and St George’s is the staff. From the hard working office staff who are a major link between home and school to the cleaning, site and catering staff and the teaching team. Teachers work incredibly hard crafting lessons with the needs of the children central to their planning. They are responsible for driving the learning forward and enabling children to achieve their potential.

For more information regarding the academy or Three Spires, please see the Recruitment Information Pack and Job Description attached. Applications must be made via MyNewTerm.

Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Please contact recruitment@threespirestrust.org or nmatthews@threespirestrust.org with any questions.

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 St Giles' and St George's Church of England Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 350 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Giles' and St George's Church of England Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-giles-and-st-george-s-church-of-england-academy

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