Teaching Assistant

Lift Montgomery, Birmingham, West Midlands, B11 1EH

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  9 October 2026 at 12:36pm

• Date listed

  25 September 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £21175 - £26183 per annum

Teaching Assistant job summary

Are you passionate about helping children thrive, build confidence, and achieve their full potential?

We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic, and committed Teaching Assistant to join our team at Lift Montgomery Primary. You'll play an important role in supporting pupils in the classroom, helping them to access learning, develop their independence, and feel confident and supported throughout the school day.

About the role

As a Teaching Assistant, you'll work closely with teachers and other colleagues to provide high-quality support for pupils across the school.

You'll support children's learning in the classroom, work with individuals and small groups, and help deliver targeted activities and interventions as required. You'll build positive relationships with pupils and help create an inclusive, engaging, and supportive learning environment where every child has the opportunity to succeed.

Key responsibilities

• Support pupils with their learning within the classroom, individually and in small groups
• Work closely with teachers to support the delivery of engaging and inclusive learning
• Deliver targeted activities and interventions to help pupils make progress
• Support pupils in developing their confidence, independence and positive learning behaviours
• Help create a safe, positive and inclusive classroom environment
• Build strong and supportive relationships with pupils
• Work collaboratively with teachers, SEND colleagues and the wider school team
• Support the safeguarding and wellbeing of pupils at all times

We are looking for someone who

You'll be positive, patient and enthusiastic, with a genuine passion for supporting children and helping them succeed.

You'll be able to build strong relationships with pupils and colleagues, communicate effectively and adapt your approach to meet the needs of different children.

Experience of working with children, particularly within a primary school or educational setting, would be beneficial. Most importantly, you'll share our commitment to ensuring that every child receives an excellent education and feels supported as they achieve their potential.

Your new school

Lift Montgomery Primary is an Ofsted-rated Outstanding school in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, led by Principal Fozia Nisar.

We are proud of our committed, enthusiastic team and the inclusive, positive, and collaborative culture we have created for both pupils and staff. We focus on high standards, teamwork and pride in our school community, helping every child feel supported and achieve their potential.

The strength of our school community and our commitment to providing an excellent education for every child has contributed to Lift Montgomery Primary being graded Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted.

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

How we support you

We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.

This is a full-time position, working 32.5 hours per week. The contract is fixed-term until 31 August 2027, with a start date as soon as possible.

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

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching 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 Lift Montgomery

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 466 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Montgomery website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/montgomery-primary-academy

Lift Montgomery is an award winning and high achieving school with strong leadership and a commitment to staff development.

We are a 3 form entry primary and proud to serve the communities around Central Birmingham. Over the last three years, significant investment in our building and commitment from our talented staff team has meant that attainment has risen and we are an Outstanding school.

We work closely with our primary partner Lift Percy Shurmer, and we share resources, staff, training and place an emphasis on effective and tailored professional development.

Lift Montgomery and Lift Percy Shurmer work in partnership to provide our children with an outstanding education. As partner schools we have an overarching vision and shared values that bind our schools together. Through our collaboration both schools are strengthened. The efficient use of shared resources enables the partnership to provide additional resources to our pupils and offer a wide range of opportunities for pupils, parents, staff and the wider community. We ensure success for all our pupils through innovative and inspirational teaching , as both schools work together to share best practice.

Lift Montgomery and Lift Percy Shurmerare led by an Executive Principal and one management board. Each school has a Head of School. Their role is to ensure that each school gains the optimum benefit from the partnership, as they translate the values and vision to ensure success for each unique school.

Our Curriculum

We believe that children learn best when their learning experiences are evocative, therefore we teach most of our subjects through a connected curriculum.

This works by delivering a different theme in each year group for each term throughout the year. The curriculum is planned so that as many learning experiences as possible are linked to this theme; this allows the children to see that their skills are all connected. During the children's learning we try to integrate as many real life experiences as possible that are related to the area they are studying.

Literacy, Numeracy and ICT underline our curriculum to ensure that the key skills children need for success, are fully learned before the children move on to secondary education. Therefore, our curriculum is skills based and children learn to apply these skills in every part of their learning.

To view our curriculum across the year please click here

Reasons to come and work with us

The chance to work in a Talk for Writing training school
High quality CPD for all staff, including bespoke leadership programmes
Exciting opportunities to work within a Hearing Resource
Two well resourced schools with opportunities for development and promotion in both
The opportunity to work across both schools
Work alongside artists in residence, storytellers, specialists in outdoor learning
Be part of our journey to excellence; innovation and inspirational ideas are welcomed and encouraged
Opportunities to become Specialist Leaders in Education
Friendly, supportive staff. Social events arranged throughout the year
Action research encouraged and funded appropriately
Polite, respectful children who are willing to learn
Our Specialism and Awards

Lift Montgomery have won a local award in the Key Stage 2 category of the Pupil Premium Awards 2016. This celebrates that we have used our pupil premium funding in a highly effective way to improve the performance of disadvantaged pupils, including those who are currently or were previously looked after.

WHY JOIN OUR SCHOOL?

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

Our mission:

We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.
Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences that will support you on your professional learning journey with Lift Schools.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme). Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our Lift Schools Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.

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