Teaching Assistant

The Oaks Academy, Crewe, CW2 7NQ

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st December 2025

• Closing date

  14 November 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  4 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,164.00 - £21,493.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 5 Pro Rata

Teaching Assistant job summary

If you have a passion for improving the life chances of our children, then this could be the role for you. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone passionate about supporting children with low levels of literacy. We are looking for caring, patient, and resilient individuals to help them flourish.

As a Teaching Assistant, you will:

• Work closely with small groups of pupils to support their literacy development
• Prepare learning materials and assist with engaging classroom activities.
• Provide individualised support to help pupils reach their personal goals.
• Collaborate with teachers and colleagues to deliver creative, tailored learning experiences.

What We're Looking For:

• You should bring a positive, resilient attitude and empathy, understanding the unique challenges our pupils face every day. Flexibility and a willingness to learn and adapt are essential, as is the ability to work collaboratively within a supportive team environment.
• A strong passion for supporting children with low levels of literacy
• Willingness to learn, adapt, and actively contribute as part of a team
• Experience in education, care, or support roles is a plus but not required — we provide full training to help you succeed

What can we offer you:

• The Learning Partnership Trust has a comprehensive and supportive performance management process, to motivate, inspire, and develop colleagues to ensure that both staff and pupils can realise their potential. There is a wealth of continuous professional development and networking opportunities across the Trust.
• Collaborative working across trust schools and sharing best practice are highly encouraged, and we have opportunities for more formal training and qualifications through the Trust.
• The trust promotes and prioritises staff wellbeing through its commitment to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. A new staff benefits programme has launched this academic year, providing staff discounts in response to the rising cost of living, and offers a confidential employee assistance programme to support staff mental health and wellbeing both personally and professionally
• Individual subscription to a range of research-based teaching and learning platforms, including:
  - The National College
  - TES Develop
  - Bluesky Learning Modules
  - TLP Perks - access to a wide range of discounts and benefits for employees of The Learning Partnership Trust.

Hours of work: 32.75 per week, full time hours during term time.

Contract: This role is offered on a temporary basis until 31st May 2026, in the first instance.

Weeks: 39 weeks per year (term time plus inset days)

Actual salary range: £ 26,403 to £ 28,143 (Pro rata salary £20,164 - 21,493 per annum)

Closing date: Friday 14th November 2025 at 3pm

Interviews: Week commencing 17th November 2025

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The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected'. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure & Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.

The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable.

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status.

The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers.

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 The Oaks Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 648 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Oaks Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-oaks-academy

The Oaks Academy (TOA), Crewe is part of The Learning Alliance (TLA) which serves families from Congleton, Crewe, Knutsford and parts of North Staffordshire. It includes Congleton High School, The Oaks Academy, Black Firs Primary School, Castle Primary School, The Knutsford Academy, The Knutsford Studio, Edgerton Primary School and Sir William Stanier.

TOA joined TLA on 1st September 2020 and will continue the journey of school improvement in this partnership. We have made significant strides in our school transformation and seek to appoint staff that understand the culture and climate of the school, our community, and the wider educational environment. Staff have a unique opportunity to work alongside colleagues in other secondary schools within the Trust. The school is also part of the Chimney House Teaching Alliance.

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