Higher Level Teaching Assistant

West Didsbury CE Primary School, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M20 4ZA

Deadline is today

Start date details
March 2025
Closing date
5 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 January 2025

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time, full time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: £28,163.00 - £31,007.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 5 SCP 13

Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking for a Higher Lever Teaching Assistant to support the teaching team by teaching classes in Reception through to Year 6, whilst teachers take their PPA time. The role will be to deliver up to nine sessions of cover per week with weekly time to prepare for your teaching sessions.

A caring, supportive person who enjoys working with children and who is adaptable to the spontaneity of young children will suit this role well. The candidate needs to be someone who understands the development of young children and fully understands the demands of working in the primary sector, resulting in pride and pleasure at the impact your support can have on their development.

Working with children within a school setting is demanding, but very rewarding. At West Didsbury CE Primary, we are committed to securing the very best outcomes for our pupils and ensure that they receive a high-quality education rooted in our values of Belonging, Believing and Becoming. We want all those within our school communities to feel a sense of belonging and see our Trust as a large extended family. We want our children, their families and our staff to enter a life-long journey of believing in themselves and making a positive contribution to society.

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.