Teaching Assistant

Thursfield Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 4JL

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  29 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,404.00 - £24,404.00 Annually (FTE) Salary Pro-rata; Actual Salary £18615.00; 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus inset days)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Thursfield Primary School is a very happy, caring and successful school. We are part of the Creative Learning Partnership Trust; a Trust that firmly believes that all young people deserve to become world-class learners – to learn, enjoy, succeed and thrive in a first rate educational environment with the best facilities, the best teaching and the most up-to-date resources available to them.

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join our team to support the excellent teaching and learning opportunities for all of the children.

We are looking for someone who:

Is an outstanding practitioner with a genuine passion for teaching and learning

Has experience or a strong interest in working with children with special educational needs

Encourages and seeks to create a positive and creative learning environment

At Thursfield 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.

At Thursfield, we understand the importance of staff well-being and work-life balance. That is why we offer a comprehensive well-being package including:

Access to confidential counselling services and well-being workshops to support your personal and professional growth.

Thursfield Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is subject to an enhanced criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form. Please note it is an offence to apply for this position if you are barred from education.

The DfE have recommended that schools now consider undertaking online searches on all shortlisted candidates. The Creative Learning Partnership Trust is following this recommendation and, as such, should you be shortlisted on-line searches will be conducted accordingly. The searches will be undertaken in an impartial manner only using publicly obtainable data by Insight HR Ltd (a third-party organisation). This ensures that the Trust meets their legal obligations and minimises risk of any bias being formed in the recruitment process.

Closing Date: 29th June 2025
Shortlisting: Monday 30th June 2025
Interviews: TBC
To apply, please complete the online application form at https://mynewterm.com/
School Website: https://www.thursfield.staffs.sch.uk/

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 Thursfield Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 280 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Thursfield Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/thursfield-primary-school-stoke-on-trent

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