Teaching Assistant - EYFS

Short Wood Primary School, Telford, Shropshire, TF1 2JA

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  15 October 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  28 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £14,933.00 - £15,172.00 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant - EYFS job summary

The Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust and Governors of Short Wood Primary School wish to appoint a dedicated and suitably experienced Early Years Teaching Assistant to join our enthusiastic and

supportive staff team.

We have a wonderful, highly skilled, staff who work hard to support all children in school, including those with additional needs. This role will be exciting and rewarding and will enable you to support children both academically and pastorally.

The successful candidates will be passionate about achieving the best outcomes for all children and will have an understanding and experience of working with children in primary school or early years settings.

Ideally, they will also have worked with children with special educational needs, in particular with language and communication needs. They will be able to demonstrate a range of skills in supporting communication, and managing pupil’s emotions in a proactive, positive and supportive way, enabling them to get the very best out of their learning.

We are looking for candidates who will be part of our forward thinking and creative team and welcome new ideas and enthusiasm.

Short Wood is an amazing school with nature at its core. We have great outdoor spaces and like to spend as much time as we can learning outdoors. Our pupils celebrate diversity, chose respect and embrace challenge to be the best they can be.

We can offer you a positive, modern and thriving school environment, a great team of staff, a commitment to continuing professional development and and excellent package of wellbeing support.

We look forward to meeting you.

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 Short Wood Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: Up to 490 pupils
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Short Wood Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/short-wood-primary-school-telford

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