Teaching Assistant
Gatley Primary School, Stockport, Cheshire, SK8 4NB12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
8 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 June 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
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week term time only
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed Term, 12 months initially, 32.5 hours per week term time only
Full-time equivalent salary
- Scale 3 Point 5-6 £25.583 – £25,989
Pay scale
- Scale 3 Point 5-6
Hourly rate
- £13.26 to £13.47
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Advert
Teaching Assistant
Contract type: Fixed Term, 12 months initially, 32.5 hours per week term time only
Location: Gatley Primary School
Required from: September 2026
Salary: Scale 3 Point 5-6 £25.583 – £25,989 Pro rata
Actual salary: £19,220.82 - £19,525.75
Closing date : Wednesday 8th July 2026
Interview date : Monday 13th July 2026
Are you passionate about supporting the delivery of a rich curriculum that consists of a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the classroom?
Do you enjoy making a positive difference in children's lives, including supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to achieve their full potential?
Do you want to work in an outstanding school, with an outstanding staff team, where the voice of the child is paramount to our learning?
Do you want to be part of an organisation which focuses strongly the professional development and empowerment of staff?
At Gatley Primary, we are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join our team. 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
About Education Learning Trust:
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.
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.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Please send completed applications to vacancies@gatleyprimary.com for the attention of Laura Holt, HR Administrator.
If you would value an informal discussion about the post, please contact the school office at office@gatleyprimary.com
Further information about the job
Person specification
Teaching Assistant
September 2026
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:
Knowledge and experience of effective safeguarding practice including KCSIE
Excellent Maths and English skills
Experience of working with school aged children school
A commitment to raise standards of achievement for all pupils
TA Qualification
Knowledge of early reading and phonics
First Aid Certificate
Experience of working with Early Years aged pupils
Training and development related to Autism, Speech and Language Development and Down’s Syndrome or any other SEND specialism
An understanding of classroom roles and responsibilities including preparing the learning environment
Attendance at INSET or training courses
Application/Interview
Planning and Organising:
Assisting the class teacher in preparing the working environment
Ability to follow lesson plans and to deliver these effectively to individuals or groups of children
Ability to maintain written records as necessary
Experience of delivering interventions in both
English and Mathematics to individual children and groups
Ability to adapt activities to meet the needs of SEND pupils.
Application/Interview
Management and Teamwork:
Experience of working effectively within a team
Confident in supporting the teaching of the curriculum with an individual/group of children in Early Years.
Willingness to contribute to the full life of the school including community events
Application/Interview
Communicating and Influencing:
Ability to communicate effectively with pupils, parents and school staff
Ability to build effective relationships with children, parents, colleagues and outside agencies
Experience of working with outside agencies
Application/Interview
Other Skills and Behaviours:
Work flexibly and respond to challenges as they arise
Ability to take direction and use own initiative when required
Willingness to develop professionally
Have a positive approach to behaviour management
Understanding of school policies including safeguarding
Awareness of current developments in education
Keen interest and knowledge of a curriculum subject area
Additional areas of expertise you could bring to the role
Commitment to school’s offer including Chaperone service and extracurricular or tutoring.
Application/Interview
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
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 636 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Gatley Primary School website
- Email address
- scarroll@gatleyprimary.com
- Phone number
- 0161 428 6180
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.
School location
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