Teaching Assistant

Great Meols Primary School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH47 7AP

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 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: Band D (NJC)
• Additional allowances:

  Band D (NJC)

Teaching Assistant job summary

FIXED TERM TEACHING ASSISTANT (MATERNITY COVER)

Full-time (36 hours, 39 weeks)

Level 2 Teaching Assistant - fixed term until 31/08/2026 in the first instance

Salary: Band D

Starting date: January 2026

Great Meols Primary School is an Academy which is part of the Oak Trees Multi Academy Trust. We are a very happy, successful and popular school with dedicated hard-working staff and Governors, supportive parents and delightful children.

We are looking to appoint a suitably skilled, well-motivated and enthusiastic person who is qualified as a Level 2 Teaching Assistant to join our friendly, dedicated team.

The successful candidates will provide class-based support across EYFS, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. They will demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, have the ability to work as a team member and also be able to use their own initiative. For further information about this role, please contact Carol Ainslie, Assistant Headteacher/SENCO or Rachel Keating, Business Manager via email to schooloffice@greatmeols.wirral.sch.uk.

The closing date is 12.00pm on Friday 12th December 2025.

Interviews are scheduled for w/c 15th December 2025.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children. The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure and will follow a stringent vetting and induction process, , including checks on personal social media platforms. All applicants will be considered on the basis of suitability for the post regardless of sex, race or disability.

For further information about the Trust, please look at our website www.greatmeols.wirral.sch.uk or contact the Trust office at admin@oaktreesmat.co.uk.

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 Great Meols Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 467 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Great Meols Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-meols-primary-school

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