Teaching Assistant Level 2

Orrell Holgate Academy, Wigan, Lancashire, WN5 8SJ

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  25 March 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  6 March 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: 26.25 hours per week, 8:45am - 2:00pm Monday to Friday. Term time only.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £14,253 - £14,706
• Pay scale: Grade 3, SCP 3-5

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a dedicated, hardworking and enthusiastic individual who has an excellent work ethic to join our team in KS1 and KS2.

Your role will include supporting pupils at lunch time every day. A paid break will be provided during the day outside of the lunch hour.

We would like to employ a professional, flexible and hardworking Teaching Assistants initially in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

We are looking for someone who:

• Loves working with pupils and is committed to helping them feel safe and happy.
• Has very high expectations of all children both in the classroom and around school including lunchtimes.
• Is calm, patient and caring and able to build and maintain excellent relationships with pupils and staff in school
• Can demonstrate initiative, drive and enthusiasm.
• Can support with interventions in maths, phonics and reading
• Puts the wellbeing of pupils at the heart of all they do.
• Is highly professional and well presented with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Is flexible, positive and resilient.
• Can work within a team to support pupils with SEND
• Is willing to undertake appropriate further training including first aid.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• Happy, well behaved and diligent children.
• A warm, professional and hardworking team.
• A calm, well organised and effective organisation to work in.
• Supportive parents and wider school community.
• Training to improve your ‘on the job’ skills.

Further details about the role

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please ensure to read the attached recruitment pack for further information, including the job description and person specification.

If you'd like to come and see us, school visits can be arranged for 9:30am on Tuesday 25th March 25. Please contact the school office,enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk

Please submit an application form and a supporting statement of no more than two sides of A4 outlining why you are interested in the opportunity and how your application addresses the requirements for the role.

Applications should be addressed to Mrs Gail Worrall (Headteacher). These can be returned electronically to enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk

Alternatively, send a hard copy to:Orrell Holgate Academy,Moor Road,Orrell,Wigan,WN5 8SJ

Closing Date: 3pm Tuesday 25th March 2025

Interview Date: Thursday 3rd April 2025

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

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

OHA Recruitment Pack - TA Level 2.pdf - 730 KB (opens in new tab)

About Orrell Holgate Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 204 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Orrell Holgate Academy website
• Email address: enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01942 776670
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orrell-holgate-academy

Orrell Holgate Academy is a special place. We are a successful and ambitious school with a caring family ethos.

Our school mission statement is 'Learning for Life'. Through our 'Learning For Life' curriculum and school ethos, our aim is to work with parents to prepare children for a life of successful learning where they can adapt and move forward successfully whatever the circumstance or situation.

L.E.A.R.N sums up our aims:
Lifelong learning
Equipped for the world
Ambitious in every area
Resilient and Courageous
No limits to our success!

We place a huge emphasis on academic resilience and being able to work in a sustained way. Speaking and Listening, Reading, Writing and Mathematics takes place in discrete lessons but is also used in a purposeful way to develop and support learning in all subjects.

We are proud that our pupils tell us that they are HAPPY at school because we believe that children learn well when they are happy.

Arranging a visit to Orrell Holgate Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk.

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