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1 to 1 Teaching Assistant
Lift North Thoresby, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, DN36 5PL7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
24 September 2026 at 2:04pm
Date listed
17 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £14819 - £15533 per annum
1 to 1 Teaching Assistant job summary
Are you passionate about helping young people learn and grow? Lift North Thorseby is looking for an 1:1 Teaching Assistant to join our team and make a real difference in our children's lives every day. Could this be the start of something special for you?
About the role
As a 1:1 Teaching Assistant, you'll provide tailored support to an individual pupil and (at times) small groups, and contribute to a calm, purposeful learning environment where every young person feels safe, seen and supported. This role will predominantly be a one to one support role, however flexibility to work across the school is required at times.Key responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting a child on a one-to-one basis or at times in small groups during focused activities
- Encouraging language development through play, songs and conversation
- Observing and recording progress, feeding this back to the class teacher
- Supporting personal care needs with kindness and dignity
- Helping to create stimulating, well-organised learning spaces
- Building strong, trusting relationships with children, families and staff
- Promoting good behaviour, emotional wellbeing and a sense of belonging
Skills and Experience we would like to see:
- Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification is advantageous but not essential
- Experience supporting within a school setting
- Familiarity with phonics programmes such as Read Write Inc
- Understanding of child development and how children learn
- A flexible, proactive approach and a genuine passion for primary education
- UK right to work, as this role is not eligible for sponsorship.
This role is initially on a fixed term contract until August 2027, witht he possibility to extend.
About the School
Lift North Thoresby is a vibrant village primary school proudly federated with Lift Utterby. Situated between Grimsby and Louth, together we form a close-knit, rural learning community driven by a single ambitious vision and a shared leadership team. Our culture across both schools is built on a foundation of collaboration and mutual support, creating a warm, family-like atmosphere where every member of our team is valued and empowered.
Working within our federation offers a uniquely rewarding professional experience. Staff and leaders work across both sites, sharing expertise, resources and best practices to benefit all our children. We are on an exciting, shared journey of excellence and seek passionate, flexible educators who are inspired by the opportunity to make an impact across two schools. If you thrive in a supportive, community-focused environment, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
How we support you
We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lift North Thoresby
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 98 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Lift North Thoresby website
Welcome to Lift North Thoresby, is a school with enormous potential and has the ambition, the expertise and the students to become an outstanding school. Join us and be part of this journey!
As a Lift Schools school, at Lift North Thoresby our mission is pure and simple: to enable our pupils to lead remarkable lives. This is the golden thread that binds us all together – the reason that despite our very different paths to Lift North Thoresby, we are all part of one family.
Together we share and celebrate the values that are fundamental to British society. Our school values of being big-hearted, unusually brave, pushing the limits and discovering what is possible underpin everything that we do.
Ofsted
We were again judged to be a 'good' school and we were last inspected in January 2020.
WHY JOIN OUR SCHOOL?
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
Our mission:
We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.
Development:
We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences that will support you on your professional learning journey with Lift Schools.
Lifestyle:
We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.
Money:
All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme). Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our Lift Schools Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.
Wellbeing:
We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.
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