Level 1 Teaching Assistant
Lawn Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 2QR4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
8 December 2025 at 9am
Date listed
3 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £ 18,436.06
Level 1 Teaching Assistant job summary
Level 1 Teaching Assistant
Required as soon as possible
31 hours per week, 5 Days per week, Term time only
Fixed term until 31st August 2026
Salary Grade C point 5-6 (£25,583 - £25,989 FTE per annum)
£ 18,436.06 Actual Salary per annum
Lawn Primary School is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified, enthusiastic and hard-working Level 1 Teaching Assistant to support teaching and learning in the classroom to maximise the participation of our children.
The role will include 1:1 support for SEN Children and include assisting the Class Teacher in the planning of work programmes for individuals and groups of children and delivering educational activities and prepared programmes of learning.
This is a fixed term post until 31st August 2026 as it is linked to pupil funding.
We warmly welcome applications from motivated, nurturing individuals to join our dedicated and highly effective team. We warmly welcome applications from those who are passionate about making a real difference to the lives of children and thrives on challenging themselves and others to keep on improving. Our working relationships are positive, supportive and forward looking.
You will:
· Be creative in your approach to learning and delivering the curriculum;
· Possess and use appropriate skills to undertake those activities necessary to meet the physical, emotional and educational needs of individuals and groups of children, including those with special needs
· Have high expectations of pupils’ achievements and a commitment to excellent standards;
· Work well as part of a team
· Be literate and numerate;
· Be enthusiastic, energetic and committed to making learning exciting;
· Have excellent communication skills with children and adults
In return we offer:
· A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards.
· Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives
· Calm and purposeful learning environments
· Friendly, polite, well-behaved children who deserve the very best
· Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community
· A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school
· Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust
Visits to our school are warmly welcomed, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment.
Closing date for applications: 8th December 2025 at Midnight
Interviews will be held on: 10th December 2025
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lawn Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 435 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lawn Primary School website
We have a very talented and committed teaching and support staff team who offer the children many different ways to excel and achieve. The school curriculum is differentiated to provide challenge for our more able pupils and support for those with any special educational needs. We have an extensive range of extra-curricular activities that provide an extra dimension to the opportunities for learning. We are continually developing our technological facilities to ensure that all of our pupils can access and benefit from the digital learning environment.
Our mission statement “DREAM, BELIEVE, ACHIEVE” reflects our understanding and beliefs. It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school. This leads to a consistently high level of pupil achievement, preparing pupils for the challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
Mental health and wellbeing plays a vital role in education and impact on our students’ learning. This academic year the school is committed to working towards the School Mental Health Award. This is supported by the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University who say:
“The Department for Education recognises the direct link between positive mental health in schools and successful educational outcomes; the Mental Health Award for Schools builds on this link and provides a framework for educational institutions to evidence policies and initiatives that work towards improving emotional health and wellbeing for both staff and pupils.”
for more information about our school please check out our website http://www.lawn.derby.sch.uk/
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