Teaching Assistant Level 2 & 3 (Post 1 )

Mount Pleasant Primary, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 3BY

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  4 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  20 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,259.00 - £17,880.00 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant Level 2 & 3 (Post 1 ) job summary

Post 1

Teaching Assistant Level 2 Grade 5, 3 days a week & Level 3 Grade 6, 2 days a week

30 hours and 25 mins a week, Monday to Friday, 8.40-3.15pm

Permanent Contract, Term Time only.

£17,259 - £17880 pa actual

The Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust and Governors of Mount Pleasant Primary School wish to appoint a dedicated and suitably experienced Teaching Assistant to join our enthusiastic and supportive staff team.

We have a wonderful, highly skilled, staff of teachers and teaching assistants who form teams around key children with additional needs and we are looking for people to join these teams. The roles will be exciting and rewarding and will enable you to support children both academically and pastorally.

The successful candidate will be passionate about achieving the best outcomes for all children and will have an understanding and experience of working with children in primary school or early years settings. They will also have worked with children with special educational needs, in particular with language and communication needs. They will be able to demonstrate a range of skills in supporting communication, and managing pupil’s emotions in a proactive, positive and supportive way, enabling them to get the very best outof their learning.

We are looking for candidates who will be part of our forward thinking and creative team and welcome new ideas and enthusiasm.

The successful candidate will be expected, working at L3, to lead the class during times such as PPA.

It’s a lovely place to work. We can offer you a positive and thriving school environment, a great team of staff, a commitment to continuing professional development and some pretty fantastic children too!

Visits to our school are strongly encouraged. Please telephone or email the school if you would like to visit..The phone number is 01743 249135 and email address is admin@mountpleasantsbmat.com

The Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust and Governors of Mount Pleasant Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. These posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check and will follow a safer recruitment policy. Should you be shortlisted, further information relating to criminal records, sanctions and disqualifications will be requested to be considered and discussed at interview.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Mount Pleasant Primary

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 356 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Mount Pleasant Primary website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mount-pleasant-primary-shrewsbury

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