Teaching Assistant Level 3
Tottington Primary School, Bury, Lancashire, BL8 3HRThis job expired on 5 October 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
5 October 2025 at 6pm
Date listed
10 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- 11,447.05 - 12,618.52
Teaching Assistant Level 3 job summary
Prestolee Multi Academy Trust are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and effective Teaching Assistant Level 3 to join our team at Tottington Primary School. The ideal candidate will have experience working as a Teaching Assistant in an early years setting and hold a Teaching Assistant Level 3 qualification.
Who We Are
As a group of schools, Prestolee Trust has a shared vision. We act as one organisation and bring context to individual needs. Our schools are geographically close and yet serve diverse communities. The vision describes the future that speaks to that community.
The vision for Prestolee Multi Academy Trust is that our children are prepared for the next stage of education and life in modern Britain. This means children have access to a broad rich curriculum offer with a wide range of activities. We believe in an inherently strong core of English and Mathematics, together with strong specific academic foundation subjects focused on knowledge and skills.
We strive for excellence in quality first teaching. Career progression opportunities and development of knowledge and skills through CPD, networks and other professional programmes and training are key to our success. Our trust is relentlessly focused on improvement; in self, in others and in the organisation.
About You
We are looking for a person who has:
- Proven outstanding experience/teaching practice as a Teaching Assistant Level 3
- Experience of working in an early years setting
- Experience of teaching groups of pupils at primary level
- Excellent literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills
- Excellent skills in team working
- Excellent skills in working with children
- Commitment, flexibility, and enthusiasm
- A desire for career development
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Our Offer
- A dynamic and developing Multi Academy Trust of schools with a SCITT for career development in teaching and learning.
- Opportunities across the Trust to widen skills, experience, and professional development in a variety of settings
- Welcome, friendly, and inclusive schools within the Trust
- A committed Trust and School leadership and committed multi-school teams
- Well-motivated pupils
- A Trust committed to staff wellbeing and career development for all
Closing date: Sunday 5th October 2025 at 6pm
Interview/observation: w/c 13th October 2025
Start date: ASAP
This Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services and a statutory Pre-Employment Health Check.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Prestolee Multi Academy Trust 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.
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, all offers of employment are subject to appropriate pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, references, an online search and verification of right to work in the UK.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and you will be required to disclose any unspent convictions.
About Tottington Primary School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 319 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
At Tottington Primary School, we are proud to be a welcoming and inclusive school in Bury, where high expectations and a strong sense of community underpin everything we do.
We believe in the power of education to transform lives and are committed to delivering high-quality teaching and learning that inspires and challenges every pupil. Our dedicated staff team works hard to ensure that all children are supported to achieve their full potential in a safe, nurturing and purposeful environment.
Our vision is to inspire and empower every child to aim high and be prepared for a future of possibilities. This is underpinned by our core values of being safe, being a team player, having a positive attitude and showing respect, which guide our pupils to become confident, responsible and reflective learners.
We are committed to providing a broad and enriching curriculum that supports children’s academic, social and emotional development, while promoting positive behaviour and a love of learning. We work closely with families and the wider community to ensure the best possible outcomes for every child.
As part of Prestolee Multi Academy Trust, we benefit from collaboration, shared expertise and high-quality professional development, while maintaining our strong local identity.
To find out more about our school, please visit our website.
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