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Teaching Assistant - Newdale Primary School & Nursery

Employer
Telford & Wrekin Council
Location
Marlborough Way Newdale Telford Shropshire
Salary
£12.85 per hour
Closing date
17 Mar 2025
Reference
TW/TP/214/1545
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Fixed term – 12 months in the first instance

Start date: September 2025

27.33 hours per week, term time only

Are you an enthusiastic, hardworking and high-quality teaching assistant? If so, you may be just the person to join our supportive and friendly team at our wonderful school!

We wish to appoint a caring and enthusiastic team member to join our dedicated, committed and hard-working staff.

We are looking for someone who:

  • enjoys making a difference to children’s learning
  • is committed to safeguarding children
  • enjoys working as part of a team
  • is able to motivate and inspire, supporting and promoting the vision and ethos of the school
  • has a passion for securing the best outcomes for children
  • is able to support the class teacher in the delivery of lessons as well as daily administrative jobs 
  • is happy to work with children on a one-to-one or group basis through tailored interventions e.g. nurture groups, speech and language 
  • enjoys working with children with a variety of needs
  • is creative, flexible and has a sense of humour
  • enjoys working with supportive parents, governors and the wider community
  • has excellent interpersonal skills, able to establish and sustain constructive relationships with children and adults 

Visits: We will be running tours on Wednesday 5th March and Wednesday 12th March 2025 at 3:45pm (please call the office on 01952 387720 to book a place on this tour). Though tours are not essential, we do strongly encourage them.

Closing Date:  Monday 17th March 2025 

Interview Date:  Monday 24th March 2025 

Applications to be emailed to our School Business Manager: rebecca.western@taw.org.uk  or handed in via our school office.

The school is committed to safeguarding children and young people.  All successful candidates are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This role will be engaging in regulated activity with children. Our child protection and safeguarding policy can be found on our school website or requested via our office. https://www.newdaleschool.org.uk/home/key-info/policies/ 

We are committed to equality and diversity.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as stated in the person specification.

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Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.

At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us. 

Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve. 

In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.

At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result. 

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ here

You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here and the Transgender & Non-Binary Inclusion Policy commitments here

If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk

We reserve the right to close our advertisements early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

 

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Telephone
01952 380000
Location
Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
 Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom
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