Teaching Assistant Vacancy - Early Years

Location: Hempstalls Primary School

Collard Avenue

Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5 9LH

Required: Grade 2 Teaching Assistant in Early Years

Post Status: Fixed-term until 31/07/2025

Weekly Hours: 26

Salary: £24’027 (pro-rota, based on full time hours)

Pay Weeks: Term-time only

Start Date: Monday 6th January 2025

Are you looking for an exciting creative new opportunity?

Hempstalls Primary School is seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant to join its professional and friendly team in Early Years.

We are looking for someone who:

• Will provide a warm and friendly welcome to all visitors to our school
• Will contribute to creating a positive and creative learning environment
• Is educated to GCSE (or equivalent) in numeracy and literacy skills
• Is qualified to NVQ Level 2 standard for Teaching Assistants or EYFS equivalent
• Has excellent ICT, communication and organisational skills
• Fully understands and respects the importance of confidentiality

At Hempstalls 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.

Our Trust motto is ‘Come as you are and Leave as a Champion’. We are looking for someone who will willingly support this ethos.

Hempstalls Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record and other relevant safeguarding information that may make them unsuitable to work with children.

It is an offence to apply for this position if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity.
A copy of the schools Safeguarding Policy can be viewed here: Safeguarding (hempstalls.staffs.sch.uk)

If you are successful in being shortlisted for this post, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence.

Closing Date: Friday 6th December 2024 at 12pm
Interviews: Monday 9th December from 1:30pm
Please complete the attached application form.
School Website: https://www.hempstalls.staffs.sch.uk/