Teaching Assistant / Midday Assistant
Hursthead Junior School, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 7PZ15 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: 27.5 hours per week Teaching Assistant Monday to Friday 8.30am to 12pm & 1.30pm to 3.30pm 5 hours per week Midday Assistant Monday to Friday 12pm-1pm daily
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 academic year, September 2025 - August 2026
Actual salary
- Teaching Assistant NJC Scale 3 - £15,688.97, Midday Assistant NJC Scale 2 - £2,722.05
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Trustees of the Kirkstead Education Trust at Hursthead Junior School are excited to invite applications for a dedicated teaching assistant to support a pupil with diverse academic and emotional needs on a one-on-one basis. We take pride in our holistic approach to child development and are looking for someone who can strengthen our team while embodying our REAL wheel values: Responsible, Enthusiastic, and Aspirational Leaders. Your skills in fostering emotional wellbeing will play a vital role in helping our students thrive.
The successful candidate will love working with children and have the skills and knowledge to support all children. You will demonstrate the ability to:
- Work effectively as part of a close-knit team to provide comprehensive support for the student
- Work well with other staff and outside agencies
- Provide one-on-one academic support and implement individualised learning plans
- Be resilient in the face of challenges, taking direction from senior leaders and class teachers, as well as working on your own initiative
- Behave in a positive, professional manner within a team environment, remaining calm and patient, even in challenging situations
Work within school policies and procedures to keep children safe
What the school offers its staff
In return, we can offer:
- A learning environment with confident children who thrive on enrichment opportunities
- A supportive, dedicated and friendly staff team who put fun into learning
- Year group teams who work collaboratively to share the planning workload and provide professional and emotional support for each other
- A Governing Board and Senior Leaders who actively promote wellbeing for all
- Comprehensive, high quality professional development opportunities which embrace change and innovation, and help you to fulfil your potential
- Plenty of opportunities for fancy dress!
Commitment to safeguarding
The Kirkstead Education Trust, as an employer, is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as its number one priority. This commitment to robust recruitment, selection and induction procedures extends to organisations and services linked to the school on its behalf. The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and online checks.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to headteacher@hursthead-jun.stockport.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hursthead Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 361 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hursthead Junior School website
- Email address
- headteacher@hursthead-jun.stockport.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0161 439 6961
We believe that children fulfil their potential most successfully when they feel valued and they are aware of their responsibilities and our expectations. High standards of work, behaviour and dress are therefore required at all times and are an important part of our caring and inclusive approach.
Our curriculum and teaching styles are constantly reviewed so that we provide a balanced and relevant education that will prepare our children for their secondary education and life in the twenty-first century. Children need the space and opportunity to develop their enquiring minds, challenge themselves and reach their potential. We believe we offer this at Hursthead Junior School. We give the children a sense of enjoyment in learning. We want the acquisition of knowledge, skills and understanding to be a source of pleasure and satisfaction, which will stay with them as they become lifelong learners.
Arranging a visit to Hursthead Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email headteacher@hursthead-jun.stockport.sch.uk.
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