Teaching Assistant
Forest Glade Primary School, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4FL14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1 September 2025
Closing date
2 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,656.00 - £24,404.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 2, Points 2 to 4 (37hours / 5 days per week) Pro Rata Term Time Only (£20257 - £20898)
Teaching Assistant job summary
About Us:
Forest Glade Primary School is a busy, friendly, and thriving school dedicated to ensuring that every child reaches their full potential. Located in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, our school provides a nurturing environment where children can flourish academically, socially, and emotionally. We are proud to be a school of choice in the community, offering high-quality education and fostering a love of learning that stays with our pupils for life.
Forest Glade Primary School serves a wonderful community, welcoming families from within and beyond our catchment area.. With 209 pupils (234 including Nursery) on roll, we offer single-class entry for each year group and additional Nursery provision, ensuring a close-knit learning environment where every child is known and valued.
We are proud of our track record of high achievement. Our school consistently ranks among the top-performing schools nationally for attainment in Key Stage 2, placing in the top 1% in 2022 and the top 2% in 2024 for combined Reading, Writing, and Maths. Despite the challenges of serving an area where some families experience high levels of deprivation, our pupils excel academically, supported by a curriculum designed to inspire and challenge them.
Our supportive and skilled staff are passionate about delivering engaging, memorable, and inspirational learning experiences. We recognize the unique potential of each child and tailor our approach to ensure all pupils receive the support they need to succeed. Through ongoing professional development and collaboration with the Flying High Partnership, our educators continuously refine their practice to provide the highest quality education.
We believe in equipping children not only with strong academic foundations but also with the social and emotional skills needed for lifelong success. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in our high staff retention rates and strong leadership structure, ensuring stability and continued progress.
About Flying High:
Flying High Partnership is a thriving multi-academy trust of 35 primary schools across Derbyshire, Nottingham City, and Nottinghamshire. We are driven by a shared vision to be unique, exceptional, and sustainable. Founded in 2012, we believe in the power of meaningful collaboration to help schools reach their full potential while supporting others along the way.
Our Partnership celebrates individuality, champions continuous improvement, and ensures every child thrives. With a strong focus on school-led professional development and leadership, we’re committed to growing exceptional teachers and inspirational leaders.
Together, we make every day count.
About the Role
We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic, and committed Teaching Assistant to join our team. This role will involve supporting children across the classroom, working closely with the class teacher and wider school staff to deliver high-quality learning experiences and ensure all children are fully supported.
Whether you are supporting the whole class, working with small groups, or delivering 1:1 support for children with additional needs, your role will be crucial in helping every child feel safe, happy, and able to achieve their potential.
Key Responsibilities
Grade 2:
- Support pupils during teacher-led activities, encouraging independence and active participation.
- Prepare and maintain a positive and engaging classroom environment, including assisting with displays and resources.
- Promote positive behaviour and support children’s social development during learning and break times.
- Build positive relationships with pupils to support their learning, wellbeing, and personal development.
- Work collaboratively with class teachers, support staff, and families to create a nurturing and inclusive environment.
- Provide targeted support for pupils with SEND or additional needs, including supporting individual plans.
- Help deliver structured group activities, adapt resources, and track pupil progress under teacher guidance.
- Maintain confidentiality, uphold safeguarding procedures, and model the school’s values in all interactions.
We Are Looking For
- Someone who enjoys working with children and is passionate about supporting their growth and learning.
- Someone who holds a relevant Teaching Assistant Qualification.
- Someone with experience supporting children in an academic or nursery setting.
- A positive and proactive team member who communicates well and works collaboratively with others.
- An individual with a good level of literacy and numeracy, who is able to follow teacher direction and support learning confidently.
- Someone who values inclusion and believes in the potential of every child.
- A flexible, dependable person who maintains professionalism and confidentiality at all times.
- Someone who understands the importance of safeguarding and wellbeing in a school setting.
We Can Offer You:
- A commitment to people across our partnership, underpinned by our people principles: adaptability, wellness, recognising achievement, employee voice and engagement, professional development and growth, inclusivity, and collaboration.
- Access to extensive, high-quality CPL at every stage of your career, including opportunities to grow as a leader.
- The opportunity to progress across the partnership, realising your career ambitions.
- Access to an employee assistance programme that offers specialist support, including counselling, financial support, and legal advice.
- A fantastic working environment, with a team that works together for the benefit of the children in our schools.
- The opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of children every day
Application Details
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit or find out more, please contact the school office.
Early application is advised, as we may interview and appoint before the closing date.
Flying High Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
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 are not accepted.
About Forest Glade Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 239 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Forest Glade Primary School website
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