Level 3 Teaching Assistant - Woodfield Primary School

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Job summary

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust is seeking a Level 3 Teaching Assistant at Woodfield Primary School. The role involves supporting children, particularly those with special educational needs, and implementing effective teaching strategies. The successful candidate will have strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to raising educational standards.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting children with SEND and EHCPs.
• Proven success in raising standards in classrooms.
• Ability to lead interventions for individual learning targets.

Responsibilities

• Support children in classrooms and small groups.
• Implement positive behaviour management strategies.
• Lead interventions to meet individual learning targets.

Skills

Child-centred practice

Positive behaviour management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification

Job description

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust

Based at Woodfield Primary School

Level 3 Teaching Assistant (Ref: SBMAT296)

Fixed Term to 31 August 2026

Term Time Only – 30 hours per week

Grade 4 (Spine Point 7-11)

Salary £25,584 - £27,269 (FTE)

Actual Salary £17,842 - £19,018

REQUIRED TO START: September 2025

Location: Woodfield Primary School, Woodfield Avenue, Penn, WV4 4AG

Woodfield Primary is a friendly school with children who are keen to learn and who have excellent learning behaviours. Woodfield is graded as Outstanding by Ofsted.

What are we looking for:

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and committed Level 3 Teaching Assistant, to support our children. The successful candidate will be based at Woodfield Primary School.

We are looking for a child-centred practitioner with:

• proven successful experience of supporting the raising of standards in school within classrooms, small groups of children and working one to one with SEND children.
• wide experience of working with children in Early Years and Key Stage One, including those with special educational needs and disabilities and the most able children
• effective experience of supporting children with EHCPs
• proven experience of a range of positive behaviour management strategies
• the ability to support, lead and inspire children working either in the classroom or within small, targeted groups
• experience of leading interventions to meet children’s individual learning targets
• high expectations of children and a commitment to raising standards
• excellent interpersonal skills

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS, Prohibition List, Barred List, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable professional references.

It is an offence to apply if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. For further information, please refer to the Trust's policy on ex-offenders. Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies for all schools within St Bartholomew's CE Multi Academy Trust are available on the respective schools' websites. Links to all of our schools are available from the Trust homepage.

With effect from September 2022 and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, shortlisted candidates may have their publicly available social media profiles (where applicable) checked by the Trust for posts going back up to 5 years and those candidates will therefore be expected to provide their social media “handles/platforms” if shortlisted.

Closing date for applications: Friday 13^th June 2025

Interviews: Week commencing Monday 16^th June 2025

To apply, please send your completed application form and recruitment monitoring form to [e-mail] including job reference SBMAT296 in the subject line of your email.