Teaching Assistant - EYFS

Short Wood Primary School; Lilleshall; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Short Wood Primary School, part of The Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust, invites applications for an Early Years Teaching Assistant to join our enthusiastic staff. The role focuses on supporting children academically and pastorally in a warm, inclusive environment.

Our school benefits from spacious outdoor spaces and a culture that celebrates diversity, respect, and challenge. The successful candidate will work with children, including those with additional needs, to help them reach their

Job description

The Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust and Governors of Short Wood Primary School wish to appoint a dedicated and suitably experienced Early Years Teaching Assistant to join our enthusiastic and supportive staff team.

We have a wonderful, highly skilled, staff who work hard to support all children in school, including those with additional needs. This role will be exciting and rewarding and will enable you to support children both academically and pastorally.

The successful candidates will be passionate about achieving the best outcomes for all children and will have an understanding and experience of working with children in primary school or early years settings.

Ideally, they will also have worked with children with special educational needs, in particular with language and communication needs. They will be able to demonstrate a range of skills in supporting communication, and managing pupil’s emotions in a proactive, positive and supportive way, enabling them to get the very best out of their learning.

We are looking for candidates who will be part of our forward thinking and creative team and welcome new ideas and enthusiasm.

Short Wood is an amazing school with nature at its core. We have great outdoor spaces and like to spend as much time as we can learning outdoors. Our pupils celebrate diversity, chose respect and embrace challenge to be the best they can be.

We can offer you a positive, modern and thriving school environment, a great team of staff, a commitment to continuing professional development and and excellent package of wellbeing support.

We look forward to meeting you.