Teaching Assistant Level 2

Hady Primary School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 0DF

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  22 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 16.25 hours per week Wednesday to Friday, 39 weeks per year Wednesday - 12.45 - 3.30pm Thursday - 8.30am - 3,30pm Friday - 8.30am - 3.30pm
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Between £24,790 - £25,183

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you passionate about supporting students, nurturing their growth, and making a real difference in the classroom every day? At Hady Primary School, we are looking for a committed, caring, and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant Level 2 to become a valued member of our dedicated team. This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who is motivated by the desire to positively impact children’s learning and development.

As a Level 2 Teaching Assistant, you will play a crucial role in helping to create a supportive and stimulating learning environment where every pupil feels encouraged and confident to succeed. Working closely under the direction of class teachers and senior staff, you will assist in delivering high-quality educational experiences tailored to meet the individual needs of students across a range of abilities and backgrounds.

Your responsibilities will include helping to prepare and adapt learning resources, supporting students during lessons—either in small groups or one-to-one—encouraging positive behaviour, and assisting with classroom organisation. You’ll also contribute to monitoring pupil progress, providing feedback that helps inform future teaching and learning strategies.

At Hady Primary School, we believe every member of staff plays a vital role in the success and wellbeing of our students. You’ll be joining a collaborative, nurturing school community that values professional growth, teamwork, and a shared commitment to excellence in education.

Specific duties and responsibilities

1.1 Support for the Pupils

• Support pupils to engage and interact with others and in take part in activities led by the teacher
• Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and develop independent learning
• Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teacher
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils
• Supervise and provide particular support for pupils, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
• Assist with the reviewing of SEN Support Plans
• Establish productive working relationships with pupils and parents/ carers and interact with them according to individual needs
• To act as a key worker to individual or groups of children

1.2 Support for the Teacher

• Create and maintain a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment and assist with the display of pupils’ work
• Use strategies, in liaison with the teacher, to support pupils to achieve learning outcomes
• Assist with the planning of learning activities
• Monitor pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed
• Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on pupils achievement, progress and next steps
• Promote good pupil behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
• Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers
• Administer routine tests and undertake routine marking of pupil’s work
• Provide clerical/admin support e.g. photocopying, typing, filing, money, administer coursework etc

1.3 Support for the curriculum

• Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching interventions adjusting activities according to pupil responses
• Undertake interventions linked to local and national learning strategies e.g. literacy, numeracy etc.
• Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use
• Prepare, maintain and use equipment/resources required to meet the lesson plans/relevant learning activity and assist pupils in their use

What the school offers its staff

Hady Primary School is a primary school and nursery, situated in the East of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It welcomes 350 pupils through its doors, from Nursery to Year 6.

Hady Primary aims to provide a nurturing environment, inspiring experience, and firm foundation for growth for the pupils, who are willing to learn, well-behaved and enthusiastic. It does so from an elevated location overlooking Chesterfield, which offers access to outdoor learning areas.

The school strives for excellence, welcomes challenges and delivers consistently strong results and Ofsted judged it to be ‘Good’ at its most recent (ungraded) inspection in April 2024, with evidence that “the inspection grade might be outstanding if a graded inspection were carried out”.

In addition to trust-wide benefits for all staff, those at Hady Primary School also have access to:

• Supportive and friendly staff and leadership team.
• Free staff parking.

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

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About Hady Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 315 pupils
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hady Primary School website
• Email address: recruitment@chorustrust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hady-primary-school-chesterfield

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