Reading Teaching Assistant
Cringle Brook Primary School, Levenshulme, M19 2HT28 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 July 2025 at 8am
Date listed
16 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Part time: 16 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9.00am start
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,737 pro rata, term time only
Actual salary
- £8,940 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you really want to make a difference to children’s reading skills?
Kingsway Community Trust wishes to appoint a highly motivated, Level 1, Grade 2 Teaching Assistant to a really rewarding position, to support reading on a one to one basis at Cringle Brook Primary School.
The successful candidate will be joining a team of Reading Teaching Assistants and will have experience of working with children to support their learning. Candidates will need excellent literacy skills and an assessment of these will form part of the recruitment process.
The successful candidate will have recent and relevant experience of working with children, supporting learning, in a school setting. They will also be highly motivated, dynamic, have strong teamwork skills and a ‘can do’ approach to their work. They will be a strong communicator who is a nurturing, patient and positive individual and will be strong at building relationships with pupils, staff and parents.
TA level 1 Grade 2 – Term Time only – 16 hours a week.
£24,027, pro rata, equates to apx £9,447 per annum
Monday to Friday 9.30am start.
First stage assessment: 15 July
Second stage interview: wc 21st July
What the school offers its staff
Kingsway Community Trust, a Multi Academy Trust, is made up of Green End Primary School, Ladybarn Primary school and Cringle Brook Primary School. This provides the staff and children of both schools with enhanced development and networking opportunities.
The Trust is led and managed by one Executive Headteacher and a Trust Board. In each school there is a full time Head of School who leads and manages alongside the Executive Headteacher.
Kingsway Community Trust can offer you:-
- A thriving learning community with a positive ethos and innovative approaches
- A supportive and empowering environment, supported by a National Leader of Education
- The support of a well-established, highly successful and forward thinking Trust
- A culturally rich and diverse urban community
This position is subject to 2 professional references and DBS clearance.
Further details about the role
We cannot accept CVs as an application. Our application form must be used and completed in full, making sure you address the person specification. Submissions received without a completed application form will not be considered. Photographs of applications forms will not be accepted.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@kingswaycommunitytrust.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Cringle Brook Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 212 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cringle Brook Primary School website
- Email address
- jobs@kingswaycommunitytrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 0161 2481730
Cringle Brook Primary is a 1 form entry primary school in Levensulme, South Manchester. We have an excellent reputation for our forward thinking approach and excellent teaching and learning. Our expertise includes nationally recognised work in developing EAL learners, British Council award winning international schools work and restorative school development.
We work to enable all staff to be supported through extensive trust and school wide networking, excellent training and development opportunities and pastoral support which includes staff as well as the children.
Candidates are encouraged to visit our website www.cringlebrook.manchester.sch.uk
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