Teaching Assistant Level 3 (Maternity Cover)

Langwith Bassett Primary Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG20 9RD

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  16 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  29 September 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: £20,107.00 - £21,432.00 Annually (Actual) 32 hours 25 minutes per week. Term-time only. NJC Band E points 7-11. FTE £26,403 - £28,412. The salary will increase by one additional week of pay if the appointee has 5 years or more continuous service with the Local Authority.

Teaching Assistant Level 3 (Maternity Cover) job summary

Langwith Bassett Primary Academy are committed to making a real difference to the lives of our young people and will provide outstanding learning and enrichment opportunities for them throughout their time with us. To be able to achieve this, we need to have a team of dedicated and outstanding staff, who will contribute to our exceptional learning community.

We are seeking to appoint an ambitious and enthusiastic temporary Level 3 Teaching Assistant (maternity cover), who will complement the professional work of Teachers and colleagues.

Working 32 hours 25 minutes per week term time. (Term time includes working 2 out of 5 INSET days each academic year as directed, with availability to work any or all of the remaining 3 INSET days at short notice should the need arise).

The successful candidate will plan, prepare and deliver learning activities for individuals or groups, or short term for whole classes, and will monitor, assess, record and report on pupils’ progress, achievement and development. The successful candidate will provide cover for whole classes.

The Level 3 Teaching Assistant will have experience of:

Establishing productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations

Supporting children consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual needs

Teaching whole classes short term as and when required.

Within agreed systems of supervision, Planning and teaching high quality learning activities designed to promote accelerated progress, address misconceptions and consolidate learning.

Recording progress and achievement systematically, and provide evidence of range and level of progress and attainment

Liaising with parents to support with pupils’ learning, and contribute to/lead meetings with parents to provide constructive feedback

Experience of working across all year groups

Modelling and promoting positive values, attitudes and behaviour

Having a willingness to be fully involved in the life of the academy

The role is based at Langwith Bassett Primary Academy but may, on occasion, involve working at other academies within the trust.

Safeguarding

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

All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.

It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality

ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.

We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.

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

At Langwith Bassett Junior Academy we all work incredibly hard to make sure our school is a welcoming place for the whole school community, where children’s wellbeing and safety is prioritised, always.

Langwith Bassett Junior Academy has policies and procedures in place to deal effectively with child protection and safeguarding issues. To provide a safe environment for young people, our selection and recruitment processes include all statutory checks on staff, governors and regular volunteers including enhanced DBS, (disclosure and barring service), checks.

All staff are trained at a level appropriate to their safeguarding responsibilities:

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Langwith Bassett Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 123 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Langwith Bassett Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/langwith-bassett-junior-academy

We are a caring, dedicated and enthusiastic team that is committed to children's well-being, achieving high standards and providing the very best opportunities for all in our care. We believe that every child matters and work hard to create an environment here that nurtures independence, resilience and a desire to learn.

Together, through a creative and varied curriculum, we strive to ensure that each child reaches their potential. All children have talents and abilities to celebrate, and our role is to prepare children for future education; and to help them acquire the skills and enthusiasm needed to embrace the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

Langwith Bassett Junior Academy is proud to be part of Aston Community Education Trust (ACET), established in 2011 when Aston Comprehensive School converted to an Academy. Our trust and academies have a firmly established ethos based on integrity and respect together with an embedded belief in the right of each pupil to receive a high quality academic and social education that gives them the best possible start for their future career choices.

At ACET we are committed to providing the highest quality teaching and learning enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

We are proud of the diversity that can be seen across our family of schools and the recognition that we are all striving for the same goal - to be our best. We believe that every person is unique and we work together in an inclusive environment of mutual respect and consideration, valuing everyone’s contribution.

Through our partnership with the local and wider community, we aim to support our young people in successfully making a positive contribution and giving something back to the community.

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