Teaching Assistant
Kidsgrove Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 4DL12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
17 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 30 hours a week – 38 weeks plus 5 inset days – 39 weeks per year.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,405 - £25,183 FTE
Pay scale
- Grade 4 - SCP 13 - 16
What skills and experience we're looking for
Kidsgrove Primary School is a friendly and nurturing primary school with a strong family ethos. We pride ourselves on creating a positive and inclusive environment where children feel safe, confident, and excited to learn. Our dedicated team works together to inspire young minds and support their development in all areas. We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic, and proactive Teaching Assistant to join our team. You will work closely with teachers to support children’s learning, provide one-to-one or small group assistance, and help create a stimulating classroom environment. Your role will be essential in ensuring that every child gets the support they need to thrive.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Further details about the role
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.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Kidsgrove Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 157 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kidsgrove Primary School website
- Email address
- jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
Kidsgrove Primary is a primary academy located in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, providing high-quality education to pupils aged 4 - 11 years.
We are extremely proud of our children and staff and the positive, happy atmosphere that they create. It is important to us that we provide academic vigour within a supportive and inviting environment where children develop a thirst for learning, feel safe and make a positive contribution, whilst developing a lively and enquiring mind.
Success is celebrated in the knowledge that this will encourage greater achievement in the future, underpinned by our educational vision. We strive to provide a stimulating and exciting environment that fosters high expectations and aspirations.
Ours is a caring school where the children are warmly received and encouraged throughout their learning journey with us, to aim high and to believe in their own ability. We firmly believe that the most successful way to achieve the best possible outcomes for all our children is when school and home works in partnership together.
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