Midday Assistant
Leighton Academy, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 3PP23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP (negotiable)
Closing date
15 April 2026 at 10am
Date listed
23 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £4,160.82 Annually (Actual)
Midday Assistant job summary
Location: Leighton Academy
Position: Midday Assistant
Salary: Grade 2 - FTE £24,416.00 pro-rata per annum
Actual: £4,160.82
Contract: Permanent - Part time
The Learning Partnership along with the Principal at Leighton Academy wish to appoint a motivated, committed and highly effective Midday Assistant to join our hard working and enthusiastic team. The successful candidate will have good communication skills, be positive and energetic for the children, a strong team player and be able to use their own initiative.
Working hours will be Monday to Friday, 7.5 hours per week between the hours of 11.50am - 1.20pm term time only.
About the Trust
Formed of two local trusts on 1st September 2023, The Learning Alliance and The Learning for Life Partnership, The Learning Partnership is a diverse new multi-academy trust delivering excellent educational provision for pupils in primary and secondary schools across the North-West. The Trust primarily serves the communities of Crewe, Congleton, and Knutsford, and is now the largest multi-academy trust in Cheshire.
At The Learning Partnership, we believe that there are three core facets of our mission -people, passion, and performance. We are striving to build a community of the strongest people, inspiring a passion for education that galvanises these people to maximise their abilities, which supports all pupils to perform at their best. We believe that these core principles will create a culture that helps all our schools to improve and ensures pupil outcomes are the very best they can be.
The trust subscribes to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter and places staff wellbeing at the forefront of its strategic people priorities. Our ongoing commitment in this area is reflected in our employee offer that includes:
Discounts in retail stores, entertainment, and supermarkets
Benefits schemes in affordable tech, cycle2work, gym memberships and a car scheme
Employee assistance programme providing specialist advice and guidance in a range of areas including menopause, financial management, and up to 8 counselling sessions per referral
Flexible working offered as a day 1 right of employment
Free parking
Access to high quality CPD and secondment opportunities
The Learning Partnership is a disability committed employer: applicants requiring adjustments to the application or interview process should contact Debbie at: recruitment@leighton.cheshire.sch.uk.
The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), and appropriate online searches in line with the requirements in Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023).
The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status.
The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers. For further information regarding this role, please contact: oreillyd@leighton.cheshire.sch.uk
Closing Date: Wednesday 15th April 2026 at 9.00am
Interviews: Week beginning Wednesday 20th April 2026
Start Date: ASAP (negotiable)
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 Leighton Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 457 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Leighton Academy website
School location
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