Teaching Assistant - Early Years

Pilgrim Academy, Immingham, Lincolnshire, DN40 2HP

42 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 March 2026 or sooner

• Closing date

  29 January 2026 at 11am

• Date listed

  17 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,550.00 Annually (FTE) £19,034.75

Teaching Assistant - Early Years job summary

Teaching Assistant - Early Years

Fixed Term until 31 August 2026 - 32.5 hours per week

Term time + Inset days (195 days per year)

Salary: £25,550 - LGAT 5 - FTE

Actual Salary: £19,034.75

We are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate Teaching Assistant to join our academy.

Pilgrim Academy is seeking an experienced, flexible, enthusiastic and positive Early Years Teaching Assistant to join our friendly and dedicated team. This role involves leading small group activities, supporting pupils on a 1:1 basis and providing support at lunchtime — all under the direction and supervision of the class teacher. A key part of the role will be supporting pupils to move their own learning forward.

What we’re looking for:

A highly effective Early Years Teaching Assistant who understands how to build motivating relationships with young children, enabling them to make rapid progress.
Someone with excellent skills in interacting and communicating with children, ensuring they feel supported, valued and confident in their learning.
Experience of planning and delivering phonics sessions and working within an Early Years setting.

• To assist students, including those with SEN, to maximise access to the curriculum,
• To work under the direction of the teacher in a class based environment using teaching aides and other methods of support
• To help support and promote the Academy behaviour policy

Whilst experience is not necessary, you must have a good standard of literacy, be adaptable and willing to be involved in all aspects of school life, have a calm manner and be able to work as part of a team.

Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In line with our safer recruitment practices and statutory guidance on Keeping Children Safe in Education, all applicants must be willing to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Additional pre-employment checks will also be carried out including online/social media check, satisfactory references and any other appropriate checks necessary in order to assess the suitability to work with children

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Pilgrim Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 250 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Pilgrim Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/pilgrim-academy

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