Teaching Assistant - Early Years

Castlechurch Primary School, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST17 9SY

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  28 November 2025

Job details

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

Teaching Assistant - Early Years job summary

Castlechurch Primary School is seeking to appoint 1x enthusiastic and experienced Early Years Teaching Assistant. This is a permanent position.

1 x full time (term time) Teaching Assistant to work within our Early Years team to start as soon as possible. This is a full-time grade 4 post with PPA cover paid at grade 7 (2.5 hours per week).

You must be experienced in working with primary aged children in a school setting and would ideally hold a level 3 qualification or equivalent.

You will need to demonstrate:

Your ability to work as part of a very enthusiastic team

Commitment, flexibility and energy

Excellent behavioral management skills

A knowledge of the Early Years national curriculum and assessment

To be willing to undertake suitable training for your own professional development.

Your responsibilities will include:

supporting the teacher in the development and implementation of a high-quality curriculum.

assisting in maintaining high standards of behaviour and care.

providing support to pupils to achieve learning goals.

supervising pupils for a particular curriculum activity under the guidance of a qualified teacher

assisting the teacher with the planning of learning activities

assisting with the day-to-day routines of a classroom

assisting the teacher in monitoring pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed.

Planning and Leading curriculum lessons to cover PPA sessions.

The closing date for this post will be Friday 12th December 2025 at 09:00 and interviews and observations will take place week beginning 15th December 2025.

Visits to the school are strongly recommended. Visits can be booked by calling the school office on 01785 334955 or emailing office.cas@cflptrust.co.uk

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Headteacher Mr. Lee Anderson-Pugh by email on l.anderson-pugh@cflptrust.co.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 Castlechurch Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 269 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Castlechurch Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/castlechurch-primary-school-stafford

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