Teaching Assistant - Level 3

Medlock Valley Primary School, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 2PN

3 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  10 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,598.00 - £31,022.00 Annually (FTE) Pro rata, Term Time Only plus 5 days, 32.5 hours per week.

Teaching Assistant - Level 3 job summary

As a Level 3 TA, you’ll play a key role in supporting teaching and learning across the school. You’ll work closely with teachers to deliver high-quality education, lead small group interventions, and contribute to the overall development and wellbeing of pupils. This role is ideal for someone with strong classroom experience, excellent communication skills, and a genuine enthusiasm for education.

Key Responsibilities

Support pupils’ learning in class, small groups, and one-to-one settings

Assist in planning and delivering tailored interventions

Promote positive behaviour and a safe learning environment

Monitor pupil progress and provide feedback to teachers

Prepare resources and support classroom activities

Contribute to the development of Individual Education Plans (IEPs)

Foster inclusive practices and support pupils with SEND

Supervise pupils during break times and school trips

Collaborate with staff and parents to support pupil development

What We Offer

A supportive and welcoming school environment

Opportunities for professional development and training

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications

Access to staff wellbeing initiatives

A chance to make a meaningful impact on young lives

Collaborative team culture with experienced educators

Modern facilities and resources to support your role

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As such, all posts are subject to enhanced DBS clearance, satisfactory references and medical checks

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

We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. Appointment to this post will be subject to safer recruitment procedures including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

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 Medlock Valley Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 322 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Medlock Valley Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/medlock-valley-primary-school

Kingfisher Leaming Trust was established in September 2016 with much thought and based on strong beliefs. The Trust's Intent is founded on respect for everyone within the Trust family by encouraging and celebrating diversity. Excellence is at the heart of all of Kingfisher's work, and the Trust's Vision is for 'Endless Possibilities', working creatively to find the best possible approaches in all aspects of its provision. A design principle of the Trust is to develop a continuum of provision across the Trust - bringing together the best practice from both special and mainstream schools, ensuring that every child and young person within Kingfisher Learning Trust receives an aspirational, engaging and appropriate curriculum offer, enabling all learners to grow as individuals and have the knowledge and skills to contribute to society.
Schools within the Trust include:
• Kingfisher Special School - an Oldham school for primary aged children with complex and severe learning needs
• Medlock Valley Primary School - a mainstream primary school in Oldham (sponsored from 1stSeptember 2019). This school has now been judged by Ofsted to be good overall (March 2024)
• Halcyon Way School - a new free school which opened in January 2022 for primary aged children with less severe to moderate learning needs
• Littlemoor Primary School - a mainstream primary school in Oldham that joined the Trust in January 2022
• Blackshaw Lane Primary School - a mainstream primary school in Oldham that joined the Trust in September 2023.
• Cromwell High School - a special school in Tameside for pupils of secondary and Sixth Form age with severe
or profound learning difficulties and pupils with intensive autism and complex learning difficulties. Joined the Trust in 2024

As a values-led organisation and with an intent underpinned by integrity, the Trust is looking to work in partnership with like-minded schools with a similar culture, within Oldham and across neighbouring Local Authorities. As such, the Trust is not an expansionist Trust but one built upon meaningful and respectful relationships with high aspirations for all of the children, young people and staff.To this end, the Trust is planning to grow in three ways:
• with mainstream Primary Schools, reaching out to enhance practice and inclusive provision
• establishing new innovative Free Schools
• welcoming Special Schools from beyond Oldham to further develop and enrich specialist provision.
The Trust remains resolute in ensuring that growth is not too rapid and as such, ensures that the necessary capacity, personnel and processes are in place to support any development. Schools within Kingfisher Leaming Trust need to be within a coherent geographical cluster, with a shared sense of community, ethos and values to ensure they are all well supported.

Medlock Valley Primary School is an Ofsted rated good one-and-a-half form entry primary school in Oldham. We are described by inspectors as having attentive and hard working pupils who achieve well. We believe that every child in our school matters and we pride ourselves in delivering an ambitious and relevant curriculum that challenges, motivates and inspires all children to strive for excellence and develop a love of learning. We work hard to educate our children to become thinking, confident and compassionate citizens of the 21st Century who have a healthy respect for others. The values we strive to inculcate in our pupils and whole school are, Respect, Equality, Aspiration, Compassion, and Honesty.

Our staff make our school the great place to learn it is and we are proud to have been praised for how well our school leaders take staff workload into consideration.

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