Teaching Assistant

St Giles' and St George's Church of England Academy, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 2NB

12 days remaining to apply

Closing date
6 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 May 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: £24,790.00 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Welcome to St Giles’ and St George’s Academy, We are a Church of England school who believe in building strong, positive relationships between our pupils, parents, staff, governors and the community and we welcome visitors to our school. We are looking to appoint a passionate and hard-working Teaching Assistant to join our staff team.

This role will work 8.30am - 3.30pm with a 30-minute lunch break and is term time only, fixed-term until the end of the summer 2026 term - Friday 17th July 2026

Inspired by our Christian faith, we guide children on a personalised journey towards achievement. As a learning community, we are committed to ensuring that children are equipped with, skills and aspirations to reach their full potential in mind, body, heart and spirit.

One of the lasting impressions visitors to our school comment on is the behaviour, manners and productivity of the learners in an orderly, quiet and calm environment. Children are really inspired to learn here because their teachers provide them with learning opportunities that are motivational, they encourage children’s curiosity, intellectual thinking yet are achievable and interesting. The second aspect of our school that is frequently commented upon by visitors to the school, is the safe, secure setting. We have a large diverse site, huge grassed areas, a little ‘forest’, pond area, play trails and four different playgrounds where children learn to get along with each other relax and learn in a different context.

A real strength of St Giles' and St George’s is the staff. From the hard working office staff who are a major link between home and school to the cleaning, site and catering staff and the teaching team. Teachers work incredibly hard crafting lessons with the needs of the children central to their planning. They are responsible for driving the learning forward and enabling children to achieve their potential.

For more information regarding the academy or Three Spires, please see the Recruitment Information Pack and Job Description attached. Applications must be made via MyNewTerm.

Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Please contact recruitment@threespirestrust.org or nmatthews@threespirestrust.org with any questions.

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.