EYFS Teaching Assistant

Great Sankey Primary School, Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 1SB

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  13 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  14 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Part time: 13 hours per week - 2 x days 6.5 (excluding lunch) hours per day 8.15 – 3.30, Thursday and Friday, permanent.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: Grade 4 point 6 - £13.47 per hour salary (current) term time only

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Governors are seeking to appoint a caring, enthusiastic and highly motivated Teaching Assistant to provide support in the Early Years Foundation Stage provision.

Candidates must have full NVQ Level 2 or above Teaching Assistant qualification (or equivalent qualification in a directly relevant area).

You will be required to work with and supervise individuals and groups of children under the direction/instruction of teaching &/or senior staff, inclusive of specific individual learning needs. Candidates must demonstrate the skills of enabling access to learning for all pupils. You will assist and support in classroom management and behaviour techniques in Early Years.

What the school offers its staff

Great Sankey Primary can offer you:

● friendly, enthusiastic children with great potential, who work hard and are extremely well behaved

● a fully committed and extremely supportive staff, governors and leadership team

● supportive and dedicated parents and carers

● a caring and positive learning environment and ethos

● continuous professional development

● opportunities to work collaboratively and share best practice with colleagues across our trust (The Challenge Academy Trust)

Great Sankey Primary School is a proud member of the Challenge Academy Trust (TCAT), sharing its mission to ‘serve, challenge and empower the educational community.’

At The Challenge Academy Trust, we are building a culture that champions better work and working lives across the Trust; a framework to support and develop our workforce from ‘hire to retire’. We are committed to providing a workload that is fair and reasonable, work environment where employee health and wellbeing are actively supported and promoted and structured personal and professional development.

Our staff offer also includes:

• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme / Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

• An Occupational Sick Pay Scheme (entitlements based on service).

• Access to TCAT+ our Reward & Wellbeing platform, including access to retailer discounts, a car lease scheme, discounted healthcare cash plan, cycle to work scheme and online resources to support physical, emotional, professional, financial and social wellbeing.

• Access to a comprehensive CPD framework though ‘Education Connect’, our professional development arm, and online resources from the National College’.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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EYFS TA person spec Jan 2026.pdf - 64 KB (opens in new tab)

EYFS TA job description Jan 2026.pdf - 119 KB (opens in new tab)

About Great Sankey Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 348 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Great Sankey Primary School website
• Email address: admin@greatsankeyprimary.tcat.uk.com
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-sankey-primary-school

Primary and Nursery School, part of The Challenge Academy Trust.

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