Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Wild Bank Community School, Stalybridge, Cheshire, SK15 2PG

2 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  17 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 July 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, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,826 - £19,331 (Grade E Point 11-16)

Level 3 Teaching Assistant job summary

The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Teaching Assistant Level 3 at Wild Bank Community School, Demesne Drive, Stalybridge, SK15 2PG.

Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

Wild Bank is a one form entry school with 31 staff and 146 pupils aged between 3 and 11. Wild Bank’s school motto is ‘Working together we can achieve our best’.

Details about the role:

To start 1st September 2025 to 31st August 2026

Teaching Assistant Level 3 full-time Salary £27,269-£29,572

The role is fixed-term, part-time 27.5 hours per week, Term Time Only

With an actual salary - £17,826-£19,331 (Grade E Point 11-16).

The hours are:

Mon 8.30-15.30, Tue 8.30-15.30, Wed 8.30-15.30, Thu 8.30-16.00 (Staff Meeting) – 30 minutes unpaid lunch each day and one 1hr after school club to be agreed.

We are a small one-form entry school with delightful children and dedicated and friendly staff. We require a Level 3 Teaching Assistant, for a Year 6 class, for 4 days per week. We will also require the suitable candidate to be flexible to cover in various classes at other times and to provide smaller group support for classes when needed. Experience of working across a variety of age-ranges is desirable. See job description for further information.

For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.

The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:

• Applications close at 09:00 on Thursday 17th July 2025 although the Trust reserve the right to close the process early if suitable candidates are identified through our selection process.
• Interviews will take place on Monday 21st July 2025
• Visits to the school are encouraged and warmly welcomed.

Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.

All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.

All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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 Wild Bank Community School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 183 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wild-bank-community-school

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