Teaching Assistant

Parklands Community Primary and Nursery School, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH66 3RL

22 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  4 January 2027

• Closing date

  27 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  5 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: 26,016.07 - 26,846.40

Teaching Assistant job summary

Salary:                              Grade 4 SCP 4-6

Hours:                              32.5

Weeks:                              38 weeks (excludes inset days)

School:                            Parklands Community Primary and Nursery School

Contract Type:               Temp – two terms

Reporting to:                  Headteacher

Responsible for:            Supporting Teaching and Learning

Role Introduction

Your role will play a vital part in supporting teaching and learning, helping all children to achieve their full potential within a positive, nurturing, and inclusive environment. A key focus of the role is working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), providing targeted support to individuals and small groups to help them access the curriculum, develop confidence, and make excellent progress. You will work closely with teachers to adapt learning activities, implement support strategies, prepare resources, and monitor pupil engagement and achievement. The Teaching Assistant role is essential in promoting high-quality learning experiences, developing independence, supporting positive behaviour, and ensuring that every child feels valued, included, and successful in their learning journey.

This is a flexible role that will be shaped around the strengths of the successful candidate and the needs of our pupils. The position may involve working within our Inclusion Base, supporting a small group of children requiring specialist provision outside of the mainstream classroom, primarily across the Early Years Foundation Stage and Year 1. Alternatively, the role may be based within our mainstream provision across Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2. In all cases, the central focus will be on supporting children with SEND, helping them to achieve positive outcomes academically, socially, and emotionally.

Responsibilities

Supporting Learning & Teaching:

Work in partnership with teachers to adapt learning and provide targeted support

Deliver targeted teaching and intervention programmes for individuals and small groups

Support pupils with a range of special educational needs and disabilities, including those with communication and interaction needs, cognition and learning needs, social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs, and sensory or physical needs.

The postholder works under the direction and supervision of the class teacher and senior staff and does not carry responsibility for curriculum planning or assessment decisions

Monitor pupil engagement and outcomes within interventions and provide feedback to the teacher or SENCo, in line with agreed procedures

Support pupils in a way that promotes independence, confidence and resilience, encouraging them to develop self‑help strategies and reducing support appropriately over time

Foster positive attitudes to learning and help pupils to regulate their own behaviour and engagement

Help to assess and track student progress, providing feedback to the teacher.

Classroom Support & Management:

Model, teach and promote positive behaviour, helping pupils to develop the social, emotional and self-regulation skills needed to succeed in learning while maintaining a safe and supportive environment

Set up and organize classroom resources and learning materials

Provide supervision and assistance during lunch breaks, playtimes, and school trips

Promote inclusion and equal opportunities for all students.

Administrative Duties:

Support teachers with marking and preparing learning materials

Maintain records of student progress, attainment and behaviour when required

Pastoral & Safeguarding Responsibilities:

Play a key role in developing pupils’ social, emotional and communication skills, helping them to build positive relationships, resilience, confidence and independence

Follow safeguarding procedures to ensure student well-being and safety

Work positively and collaboratively with the team, parents and external professionals

Where required, provide support for pupils’ personal care and medical needs, in line with individual care plans, training received, and school policies.

Health and Safety:

Promote the safety and wellbeing of pupils, and help to safeguard pupils by following the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and our school’s child protection policy

Please note that this job description is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks, and the post holder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Head teacher.

Safeguarding

Concordia Multi Academy Trust is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of pupils. Successful applicants will be subject to rigorous vetting procedures, including but not limited to: An enhanced DBS check; Satisfactory references; and Online/Social Media Check.

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.

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 Parklands Community Primary and Nursery School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 208 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Parklands Community Primary and Nursery School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/parklands-community-primary-and-nursery-school

Parklands Community Primary & Nursery School sees the potential in every child. We know that education changes lives and we have high expectations for all our pupils. Our team work hard to deliver opportunities for children to exceed their own expectations and believe in themselves in a way that they might never have thought possible. This is reflected in our Ofsted report from October 2022.

We ensure children become successful independent learners for life through a broad education focused on academic success, excellence in terms of care and welfare, and ensuring their talents and achievements are recognised & developed. When children leave our school, we want them to be excited about the opportunities that exist for them and have the confidence and skills vital for success in Key Stage 3 and in later life. We seek to create responsible, resilient and curious citizens. Each half-term we focus on one of our school values: independence, cooperation, respect, responsibility, resilience & ambition.

We want our children to be the best they can be and have three clear school rules to be: Ready, Respectful and Safe. We provide a caring and safe environment for your child and safeguarding is paramount. The school’s governing board, SENCo and learning mentors are very supportive. Around 60% of pupils are entitled to Pupil Premium and around 25% have been identified as having Special Education Needs. Around 5% of the school population are from the traveller community, though this figure fluctuates, and the number of pupils with EAL is increasing.

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