12 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    17 February 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    5 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Part time (Can be done as a job share)

Contract type

Fixed term - 31st August 2025

Full-time equivalent salary

Grade 4 £24,790 - £25,183 per annum (Actual Salary £18,491- £18,785)

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Experience of working with SEN children or 1:1 working would be desirable, as well as using Read Write Inc to support phonics development.
  • An ability to collaborate and work successfully as part of a team, communicating well with pupils, parents and carers.
  • An ability to develop positive relationships with children, to understand their needs and encouragepositive attitudes to learning.

What the school offers its staff

  • Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
  • A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
  • The benefitof working in a highly collaborative multi academy trust.
  • Membership of the Local Government Pensions Scheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
  • Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
  • Good public transport links via Tyne and Wear Metro and road links from the A19 and A1058 Coast Road.

Further details about the role

Whitehouse Primary School are looking to appoint a Level 2 Teaching Assistant who can make a difference to the learning of our pupils. You'll form positive relationships and play a key, rewarding part in improving the outcomes for our pupils.

This post is part time, 32.5 hours per week and term time only plus 5 additional days. The role is fixed term until 31st August 2025.

Our schoolis one of seven primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools.At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims tobuild and strengthen networks ofschoolsthroughout the region and help them access effective educationresearchand implement it in everyday practice.

Interested? If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive here, then please read the accompanying Job Description and Person Specification and complete an application form by clicking ‘apply now’ no later than midnight on Monday 17th February 2025.

NEAT is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.Apply nowSupporting documents

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.

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About Whitehouse Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
161 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11

School location

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