Teaching Assistant L2

Orrell Lamberhead Green Academy, Wigan, Lancashire, WN5 0AW

42 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  27 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: Hours of work: 8:30- 3:30 (45mins for Lunch) Mon - Fri (31.25hrs per week / term time only).
• Contract type: Fixed term - up to 31st August 2026
• Pay scale: G3 (scp 3-5)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint one Learning Support Assistant to deliver a range of intervention strategies and/or to provide 1:1 support to children with additional learning needs.

We are looking to appoint people who:

• are able to support the learning of our children
• are patient, caring and can identify with our children and their needs
• have had training or experience in delivering a range of intervention strategies.
• are familiar with supporting learning in a school setting

preferably have had recent training/experience in delivering phonics

What the school offers its staff

We are a school where children and staff thrive. We are seeking to recruit a teaching assistant who shares our desire to ensure all our children achieve their BEST.

If you are adaptable, caring and want to enable our children to be the best they can be, we would like to hear from you.

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. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

TA L2 Job description Person Spec.doc - 53 KB (opens in new tab)

APPLICATION FORM support staff.docx - 33.4 KB (opens in new tab)

About Orrell Lamberhead Green Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 412 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Orrell Lamberhead Green Academy website
• Email address: Recruitment@lamberheadgreen.org.uk
• Phone number: 01942 768760
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orrell-lamberhead-green-academy

Orrell Lamberhead Green is a very successful, two-form entry primary school where we work hard to support, inspire and prepare our children for their future. We do this through strong, informed and supportive relationships with our children and their families. Most importantly, we strive to ensure that all children achieve their BEST.

Our moto is Believe Endeavour Succeed Together. Because we are ambitious for the future, we strive to be our BEST each day through hard work and determination. We support our children and create an environment where everyone can ask for the help and support they need whilst also teaching the importance of independence. We celebrate achievement, share in the joy of other people's successes and offer encouragement to everyone in our school family as they endeavour to be their BEST.

As a school family, we share and live by our agreed values. We recognise the ‘golden apple’ inside each and every one of us and this is strengthened through consistently promoting excellent behaviour. We recognise that our values curriculum is at the heart of everything we do. Pupils are supported to develop their understanding of these values through assembly, through our curriculum, through wider experiences and through our behaviour policy which is built upon our ‘Golden Rules’.

Our Golden Rules are:
Do listen
Do work hard
Do look after property
Do be kind and helpful
Do be honest
Do be gentle

Our values are:
Respect
Love
Acceptance and Tolerance
Resilience

These values motivate our actions and serve as guiding principles which promote happiness in ourselves and in others.

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