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Teaching Assistant Level 3

Yew Tree Primary School, Dukinfield, Cheshire, SK16 5BJ

This job expired on 12 December 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  25 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,741 - £23,577

Teaching Assistant Level 3 job summary

The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Teaching Assistant Level 3 at Yew Tree Primary School, Yew Tree Lane, Dukinfield, SK16 5BJ.

Details about the role:

To start January 2026 to 31st August 2026

Teaching Assistant Level 3 full-time Salary £28,142-£30,518

The role is fixed-term, part-time 32.5 hours per week, Term Time Only with an actual salary £21,741-£23,577, (Grade E Point 11-16)

Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our Academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

To work under the guidance/instruction of designated teaching/senior staff to undertake work/care/support programmes, to enable access to learning for pupils and to assist the

teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area under the guidance of teaching staff.

We are looking for a person who has:

• Proven outstanding experience/practice as a Teaching Assistant Level 3

• 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 Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our Academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.

The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:

• Applications close @ 12:00 on Friday 12th December 2025 although the Trust reserve the right to close the process early if suitable candidates are identified through our selection process.

• Interviews will take place on Thursday 18th December 2025.

• Visits to the school are encouraged and warmly welcomed.

Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.

We would remind you our offer of employment is conditional upon the receipt of satisfactory references, full enhanced DBS Check with child barring, production of relevant academic and professional qualifications and documentary evidence of your right to work in the UK.

All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.

All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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

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.

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About Yew Tree Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 340 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Yew Tree Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/yew-tree-primary-school

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