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Teaching Assistant
Lift Beacon, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2NF14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
August 2026
Closing date
21 May 2026 at 1:11pm
Date listed
7 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20722.55 - £21386.76 per annum
Teaching Assistant job summary
Support. Inspire. Make a difference every day.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a warm, inclusive and ambitious primary school as a Teaching Assistant, where you'll play a vital role in helping children thrive both academically and personally.
This role will be predominantly based within our specialist Resource Base, supporting pupils with identified communication and language needs, although flexibility to work within our mainstream provision will be required as needed.
This is an incredibly rewarding role for someone committed to inclusive education who wants to make a meaningful difference every single day.
Your new school
Lift Beacon is a thriving primary school in Loughborough with a specialist resource base supporting 36 pupils with communication and language needs. The school is part of Lift Schools-a national trust of 57 schools offering excellent development opportunities and career pathways.
Rated 'Good' in all areas by Ofsted, the school continues to go from strength to strength. As an IQM Centre of Excellence, inclusion sits at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to ensuring every child feels supported, valued and able to succeed.
Led by Principal Ben Kilgannon, the school has a strong community feel and a collaborative culture where staff are genuinely valued. With high expectations, a rich curriculum and a focus on personal development, Lift Beacon is a place where both pupils and staff can flourish.
Your new role
As a Teaching Assistant, you will work closely with class teachers to support learning, helping pupils access a bespoke curriculum and reach their full potential.
You will:
* Support teaching and learning across the classroom
* Work with individuals and small groups of pupils
* Provide specific targeted support to meet pupils' individual needs
* Promote independence, confidence and social development
* Help create a positive, inclusive and engaging learning environment
* Support pupils with a range of learning needs
* This is a highly rewarding role where you will make a real impact on children's lives every single day.
What you'll need to succeed
We are looking for someone who is:
* Passionate about supporting children's learning and development
* Patient, calm and empathetic
* Considerate and responsive to individual pupil needs
* Able to build strong relationships with pupils and staff
* Enthusiastic and able to engage and motivate learners
You will ideally have:
* A Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification (or equivalent), or willingness to work towards this
* An understanding of different learning needs and how to support them. Experience working with pupils with identified SEND needs is desirable.
If you would like a confidential discussion or to arrange a visit, please contact Ben Kilgannon at
We review applications as they are received and encourage early applications.
Closing Date: 18th May 2026
Ready to apply? Get in touch here. We can't wait to hear from you.
Closing date: 18th May 2026
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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 Lift Beacon
- School type
- Academies, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 308 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lift Beacon website
We are a large primary school on the edge of Loughborough with an MLD Special Provision and Nursery.
Lift Beacon is a great place to be where children are at the centre of what we do. We work closely as a team to improve the life chances of our children who come from all over Loughborough, including Shelthorpe Estate. Our intake is mixed; with a high number of children with EHCPs and over half our children are entitled to free school meals. Therefore everyone who works at Beacon has a drive to make sure that our children get the best education they possibly can, this has its challenges but is incredibly rewarding.
We endeavour to work closely with other schools locally and have a number of links to Ashmount Special School through the Loughborough Learning Alliance (LLA). The LLA provide local professional development and enable us to moderate our work within the Loughborough Area. Nationally we are linked to Lift Schools where we are able to use nation research and resources to impact our teaching and learning.
The staff at Beacon are our greatest resource and we will nurture and develop you throughout your career. Being part of Lift Schools means every employee at every level is able to access tailored CPD and opportunities to work across the group as they progress.
We warmly welcome visitors and hope that you will come and see for yourself just what we are about and whether or not working here is right for you.
Thank you for your interest in our school; we can't wait to meet you!
General Information
Lift Beacon is a 2 to 11 aged community school in the Shelthorpe area of Loughborough.
The school originally opened in 1933 as an infant and junior school and was later amalgamated into a single school. The Nursery building was opened in 2005. The school also benefits from an extensive field space for outdoor activities. In December 2012 it became part of a network of schools sponsored by Lift Schools.
It is a larger than average-sized primary school with 309 pupils. Included in this figure, is a 40-place Moderate Learning Difficulty (MLD) resource provision for children with an Education & Health Care Plan (EHC) or a Statement of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Our popular 80-place full-time equivalent (FTE), term-time only Nursery includes a 6 FTE Severe Learning Difficulty (SLD) resource provision.
There are various clubs and activities that take place on site during the evenings and at weekends for adults and children within the community. There is a weekly Family Learning group that works alongside one of the teachers and children in Key Stage 1. The area has good transport links and the School is close to Loughborough University. Housing is a mixture of council and affordable dwellings. This is a community that is growing as can be seen from the high numbers of pupils in Key Stage 1.
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