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Werneth Primary School, Oldham, Lancashire, OL8 4BL

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• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  7 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £33,366.00 - £37,035.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £28,821 - £31,990

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1 x 36.25 hrs per week to start from 1st September 2025

Permanent Contract, 39 weeks per year.

Salary: Pro rata of points 23 – 27 £33,366 - £37,035 (Actual salary £28,821 - £31,990)

We’re looking for a dedicated individual to work as part of the SEND team to deliver high-quality teaching and learning experiences tailored to the individual needs of pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The HLTA SEND Room Lead will take a lead role in planning, preparing and delivering structured learning activities within the SEND provision, under the direction and supervision of the SENCO and/or class teacher. This role includes monitoring and assessing pupils’ progress, maintaining records, and providing detailed feedback to support the development of personalised learning approaches.

Werneth Primary School

Werneth Primary School is a two-form entry Primary School, with children from Nursery to Year 6. Our school values of Care-Aspire-Persevere are values that are lived by our children and by our Staff Team.

Rated 'Good' by Ofsted in May, 2023, we serve a diverse school community and are committed to making sure that every child makes excellent progress, no matter their starting point.

Education is part of the foundation of our children's future success, so we aim to raise aspirations so that expectations can be surpassed in every lesson, every day. We want our children to build a love of learning, enjoy our wonderful curriculum and access the many learning and personal development opportunities provided for them.

By joining the Werneth Primary School Team, you will benefit from our extensive CPD programme (supplemented by The Pinnacle Learning Trust Research School) and enjoy working with our expert and committed staff, our aspirational families and our wonderful children.

Our colleagues underpin our mission and values, sharing high expectations and collaborative opportunities through supportive networks. We genuinely care about each other and the real difference we can make to pupils’ futures, and we want to recruit hard-working, conscientious and self-motivated staff who share our vision.

You can get a feel for the passion we have at Werneth Primary School through our website, but please do organise to come in and meet us in person. That’s the best way to get a sense of the dynamic and broad education that our children are enjoying and what your future at Werneth Primary School can be.

The Pinnacle Learning Trust

We are a locally focused, cross-phase Trust, with a rigorous culture of high aspirations and strong academic performance that will improve the life chances of our young people through an understanding of the communities we serve. Our academies provide high quality inclusive education and an ethos whereby our children and young people learn by example and grow morally and socially.

Our vision for our workforce is one in which diverse, dedicated, skilled and high-performing staff are operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment; enabling everyone to feel valued, respected and encouraged in order to contribute their best to support us in achieving our mission.

Our Trust invests in each member of staff, offering them professional development opportunities, as well as the opportunity to contribute to the development of others via our Research School. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging.

We are delighted to be recognised by Edurio for a Trust Value Award in 2024, and have been shortlisted for the 2025 MAT Excellence Award for Wellbeing Trust of the Year. We offer various health and wellbeing benefits, including an Employee Assistance programme offering counselling, GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, etc.

Read our ‘Join the Pinnacle Learning Trust’ booklet to discover what our trust can offer you.

Closing Date: Noon on Monday 7th July 2025
Interviews to take place on Friday 11th July 2025.

Additional Reasons to Join Us:

• Automatic enrolment into a Pension Scheme

• Cycle to work schemes available

• Various health and wellbeing benefits (including on site gym membership at Oldham Sixth Form College and The Hathershaw College)

• Free on-site parking

• Excellent opportunities for CPD and career development

Commitment to Safeguarding

Werneth Primary School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment checks. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The Pinnacle Learning Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups and ethnic minorities.

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

As part of our safeguarding commitment and promoting the welfare of children any offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks as part of the pre-employment procedures. The Pinnacle Learning Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups and ethnic minorities.

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About Werneth Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 434 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Werneth Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/werneth-primary-school

The Pinnacle Learning Trust founded in 2017, is a thriving Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) operating across all phases of education to the age of eighteen. Our mission is to improve the lives and life chances of young people in Oldham and the local area, by a commitment to raising aspirations and achievements across all our academies, through the development of outstanding practice based upon partnerships. Our purpose is to provide excellent academies for our children and young people which establish a culture of high aspirations, and provide and nurture an ethos whereby students learn by example and grow morally and socially.
The Trust currently comprises of 4 academies:

Werneth Primary School (3-11)
Broadfield Primary School (2 – 11)
The Hathershaw College (11-16)
Oldham Sixth Form College (16-19)

We are proud of our caring, inclusive ethos where we set high standards and expectations to our students to achieve their very best. We also expect the very best of our staff and provide a full induction and training package relevant to the job role.

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