Teaching Assistant
Gatley Primary School, Stockport, Cheshire, SK8 4NB14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
4 November 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
21 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Term time: Fixed Term, 32.5 hours per week term time onlym Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 Months
Full time equivalent salary
- Scale 3 Point 5-6 £26,427 - £26,847
What skills and experience we're looking for
At Gatley Primary School, we are looking for an enthusiastic and caring Teaching Assistant to join our Early Years team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about working with young children and helping them to thrive from the very beginning of their school journey.
Our Teaching Assistants work closely with groups of children as well as individual children, including those with EHCPs, to deliver personalised learning programmes and interventions. We provide a learning environment that aims to create a warm, friendly atmosphere in which children can grow and develop both academically and personally. We take pride in our achievements and have high expectations for each child in every aspect of their work – captured by our underlying school mission statement – ‘Enjoying Learning and Achieving Together’. We recognise that positive mental health and well-being, along with personal growth, are essential to the development of thriving and successful pupils and staff.
The successful candidate will demonstrate necessary skills in order to enhance school life in order to maximise opportunities for pupils. They will have high expectations of themselves and others, and this will reflect the Trust’s approach of collaboration and empowerment in order to achieve. The successful candidate will also demonstrate a real commitment to safeguarding and safe working practices which is fundamental to the Trust’s ethos and values.
What the school offers its staff
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a valued member of our Trust, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package. This includes a highly competitive salary, a respected and generous pension scheme, and outstanding opportunities for career progression and professional development. We are also committed to supporting your health and wellbeing, offering access to our award-winning employee assistance programme and a wide range of employee benefits and discounts.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
- exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
- school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
- opportunities for professional development and leadership
- a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
- innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Gatley Primary School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 659 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- Vacancies@gatleyprimary.com
- Phone number
- 01614286180
Gatley Primary School is a large, three-form entry school located within a pleasant suburban area on the outskirts of Stockport. The school currently has 577 pupils on roll aged between 3 and 11. We see ourselves very much as a family school, where education is a partnership between staff, parents /carers and pupils, and where we work together for the good of all our children.
Gatley Primary provides a unique learning experience for children, which they design themselves. Our children co-construct the curriculum around their own interests and backgrounds. This starts with suggestions for themes, developing activities and then moves through to creating their own success criteria for a lesson. Staff feel that this level of involvement is crucial to everyone’s engagement and excitement for the curriculum.
Along with this, children are provided with an independent learning approach through which they are able to make choices and challenge themselves in the learning environment. Whilst a specific and challenging success criteria underpins everything within the environment, children explore and challenge themselves, accessing a range of key skills.
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