L2 Teaching Assistant

Overdale Junior School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 3YA

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  21st August 2025

• Closing date

  16 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  5 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,791.00 - £19,089.00 Annually (Actual) Full time salary - £24,790 to £25,183 per annum (pay award pending)

L2 Teaching Assistant job summary

L2 Teaching Assistant

Temporary post required from 21st August 2025

12-months fixed term contract

32.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday 8.30am to 3.30pm, term time plus 1 week

Actual salary - £18,791 per annum (75.80%FTE)

Overdale Junior School has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and inspiring L2 Teaching Assistant to join their team.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with, or transferable skills suitable for supporting children with SEN. This role is offered on a temporary basis for the school year as it is subject to the receipt of SEN funding.

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.

If you would like further information regarding the role, please call the Office Manager, Sarah Cooke.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Overdale Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 481 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School 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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