Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Greenfield Primary Academy, Cheshire, Cheshire, SK14 1QD

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Pending completion of pre-employment checks

• Closing date

  28 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 November 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: Full time: 36 hours per week, 38.8 weeks per annum
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade E SCP 11 – 16, £28,142 - £30,518 (pro rata to the hours and weeks worked)

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will have:

• A passion and commitment to working with children with Special Educational Needs  

• Understanding of the barriers to learning that children with special educational needs may face and be able to use effective strategies to support them, including experience of delivering SEND interventions 

• NVQ 3 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification or experience or willingness to work towards

• Literacy and Numeracy skills equivalent to Level 2 of the National Qualification & Credit Framework 

• Completion of Department for Education Teacher Assistant Induction Programme (or to complete within first term) 

• Experience of working with learning resources and helping with their preparation to support learning programmes

• Experience of working with or caring for children of a relevant age to those in the school 

• Communication skills to liaise sensitively and effectively with parents and carers 

• Basic understanding of a child’s development and learning. 

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• the opportunity to be part of our team, who are committed to educational excellence

• friendly and supportive staff, parents and trustees,

• a commitment to high quality professional development,

• opportunity for future career development & progression within the Trust’s portfolio of schools and most importantly

• the chance to transform the lives of children and really make a difference

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.

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About Greenfield Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 200 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: htrecruitment@theharmonytrust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/greenfield-primary-academy

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