Teaching Assistant (EYFS with SEND)

Hempstalls Primary School, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 9LH

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  27 June 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: £24,027.00 - £24,027.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant (EYFS with SEND) job summary

We are looking for someone who:

• 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 NVQ Level 2 standard for Teaching Assistants or EYFS equivalent

• 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.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Hempstalls Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 422 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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