Teaching Assistant Level 1

St Luke's Primary School, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN16 1BN

9 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
9 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
29 April 2025

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern: Part time: 33 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Contract type: Fixed term - Fixed term until 31st August 2026
Actual salary: Grade 2, £18,067 per year

What skills and experience we're looking for

Required for September 2025

At St Luke’s we are looking to appoint Level 1 Teaching Assistants who will have the opportunity to participate in a fixed term Development Programme to acquire the knowledge and skills to become a successful Teaching Assistant.

This is fixed term contract until 31st August 2026.

During your contract you will work and be paid for your contracted hours in a class and have specific development tasks to help support and expand your understanding of children with Special Educational Needs and how to best support them in a classroom environment.

The areas of development that you will learn about include:• Understanding the different needs of the children (including autism, physical needs and speech and language development)• Understanding and supporting children with challenging behaviour – at St Luke’s we follow a therapeutic approach to support children, which focusses on understanding the children’s needs and putting strategies in place to reduce potential incidents• Moving and Handling Training• How to best support a teacher within a busy classroom environment• Developing your understanding of communication skills, including Makaton signing• Understanding child development

Alongside specific training sessions you will also be assigned a mentor who will support your development.

Over the year you will produce a portfolio of work to demonstrate what you have learnt.

Your portfolio will include certificates of training, completed assignments and a personal reflective journal.

Please note this development programme does not provide you with a recognised official Teaching Assistant Qualification.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates.

As a comprehensive training package will be given no experience of working in schools is required for this role.

At the end of the contract and successful completion of the development programme, you will be able to apply for any vacancies available at St Luke’s or take your development portfolio to apply for other posts.

What the school offers its staff

We have a Professional Development lead who will organise all of your training, whilst you are at St Luke's.

We understand that most people who start at St Luke's may not have worked in a special school before and therefore we offer a comprehensive induction package.

We have training or Team Time every Tuesday Night (4:00 to 4:50pm) and we have three training days and 4 twilight training sessions each academic year.

We use these to support training and development.Our training and development package includes the following areas:

Understanding the different needs of the children (including autism, sensory needs, physical needs and speech and language development)
Understanding and supporting children with challenging behaviour – at St Luke’s we follow a therapeutic approach to support children, which focusses on understanding the children’s needs and putting strategies in place to reduce potential incidents
How to best support a teacher within a busy classroom environment
Developing your understanding of communication skills, including Makaton signing
Understanding child development
Level 1 Team Teach
Moving and Handling Training
Safeguarding Training

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.