L2 Teaching Assistant

Overdale Junior School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 3YA

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  23 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 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: £26,427.00 - £26,847.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary: £20,032 per annum (75.80% FTE)

L2 Teaching Assistant job summary

Term time plus 1 week holiday hours

32.5 hours per week, working 8.30am to 3.30pm from Monday to Friday

We are seeking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic Level 2 Teaching Assistant to join our supportive and dedicated school team.

The role involves working with whole classes, small groups and individual pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities. Candidates will ideally have experience of working with children with complex additional needs.

You will play a key part in creating a safe, inclusive and stimulating learning environment and in promoting pupils’ academic progress, emotional wellbeing and positive behaviour.

Overdale Junior School provides a friendly, supportive environment where all staff are valued. Pupil achievement is due to the high commitment of staff in partnership with parents and carers. We are committed to providing pupils and staff with the opportunity to grow their talents and realise their potential.

Please refer to the candidate information pack to learn more about the benefits we offer.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of this role.

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

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.

About Overdale Junior School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 489 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Overdale Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/overdale-junior-school-leicester

We are situated on the southern edge of the city of Leicester in a mainly residential area. Our school campus is shared with Overdale Infant School, with which there is increasingly close liaison.

The school was opened in September 1956, with a new extension added in 2009. We have 16 mixed ability classes across Years 3 to 6 totalling around 480 pupils. Our children develop strong relationships with the teachers and peers through their learning and extracurricular activities.

We are fortunate to have a great deal of outside space at the school, including all weather playgrounds, a sports field and a wooded area and we are an established Forest School to make even more use of the green space around the school for learning opportunities.

Overdale Junior School works with children to:

-develop enquiring minds;
-teach them to reach high standards in all areas of the curriculum, according to their ability;
-be highly motivated learners;
-develop high self-esteem and self-respect;
-encourage them to extend and challenge their own self-belief;
-develop imaginative, creative and logical thinking;
-enable them to live in harmony in a diverse world;
-develop a healthy mind and body; and
-value the environment

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