Teaching Assistant with Additional Needs
Pirehill First School, Stone, Staffordshire, ST15 0AA21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Part time: 27.5 hours, Monday - Friday, Term-time only
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 17 July 2026
Pay scale
- Grade 4 SCP 5-6
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Governors of Pirehill First School are looking to appoint a Teaching Assistant – Additional Needs to support a child in Reception.
The successful candidate will need to provide a personalised curriculum to reflect individual learning needs and confidently provide dedicated 1:1 support to enable access whole class teaching sessions.
We require someone who is committed to inclusion and who wants to make a positive difference. They will need to be confident in scaffolding a child's learning and be prepared to encourage independence when and as appropriate as the child develops.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• a forward-thinking school that has excellent relationships with its community
• supportive parents and Governors
• a caring and friendly team of colleagues who are committed to providing the best for our pupils
• a stimulating work environment
• a strong commitment of professional development and support for the right candidate who has the aspiration to further develop their skills.
Further information about the job
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.
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About Pirehill First School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 9
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 270 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Pirehill First School website
- Email address
- hr@pirehill.staffs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01785 334970
Pirehill First School is very much a Community School situated in the residential area of Walton, Stone. We are very fortunate in having beautiful, well maintained grounds which are used throughout the year to enhance our children’s learning, this includes our extremely popular Forest School which is accessed by all of our pupils. Our school is a joyful place of learning which offers a rich and varied curriculum both within and outside of the school day.
Our Ofsted inspection in May 2022 confirmed that we are a ‘good’ school and parents reported that the school is ‘exceptional’, ‘supportive’ with ‘kind and caring staff’.
At Pirehill, we pride ourselves in our excellent standards of teaching, pupil progress, attainment and behaviour. We strongly believe that every child has a right to reach their full potential and succeed in their own unique way, whether that is via sport or music, the arts, or by their own academic excellence. In understanding the unique child, by celebrating their strengths and through working together, our children learn very important lessons in life. We show that we care and respect everyone and everything, by living up to our Pirehill Principle.
Proud, Independent, Respectful, Enthusiastic, Happy and Healthy, Intelligent Individuals who Love Learning and who Love Life
Arranging a visit to Pirehill First School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@pirehill.staffs.sch.uk.
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