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Teaching Assistant Level 1 with After School Club Duties

Springside Primary School, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5JB

This job expired on 12 December 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  28 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: 14228.14 - 14682.35

Teaching Assistant Level 1 with After School Club Duties job summary

Prestolee Multi Academy Trust are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and effective Teaching Assistant Level 1 with After-School Club Duties to join our team at Springside Primary School, Bury. The ideal candidate will have experience working with children in a school or childcare setting and will be committed to supporting pupils' learning, development, and well-being. They will also have a good standard of literacy and numeracy and a willingness to undertake relevant training.

The working hours for this role are 12:30pm – 5:30pm, Monday to Friday, to provide support in the classroom and after-school club.

Who We Are

As a group of schools, Prestolee Trust has a shared vision. We act as one organisation and bring context to individual needs. Our schools are geographically close and yet serve diverse communities. The vision describes the future that speaks to that community.

 

The vision for Prestolee Multi Academy Trust is that our children are prepared for the next stage of education and life in modern Britain. This means children have access to a broad rich curriculum offer with a wide range of activities. We believe in an inherently strong core of English and Mathematics, together with strong, specific academic foundation subjects focused on knowledge and skills.

 

We strive for excellence in quality-first teaching. Career progression opportunities and development of knowledge and skills through CPD, networks and other professional programmes and training are key to our success. Our trust is relentlessly focused on improvement; in self, in others and in the organisation.

 

About You

 We are looking for a person who has: 

• Experience of working with children in a school or childcare environment
• A good standard of literacy and numeracy
• A warm, caring, and child-centred approach
• Excellent skills in team working
• Excellent skills in working with children of primary age
• Commitment, flexibility, and enthusiasm
• A willingness to develop skills and undertake training
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Our Offer 

• A dynamic and developing Multi Academy Trust of schools with a SCITT for career development in teaching and learning. 
• Opportunities across the Trust to widen skills, experience, and professional development in a variety of settings
• Welcome, friendly, and inclusive schools within the Trust 
• A committed Trust and School leadership and committed multi school teams
• Well-motivated pupils 
• A Trust committed to staff wellbeing and career development for all 

 

Closing date: Friday 12th December at 8am

Interview/observation: Thursday 18th December

Start date: January 2026

This Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services and a statutory Pre-Employment Health Check. 

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

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.

This job post has expired.

About Springside Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 248 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Springside Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/springside-primary-school-bury

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