Teaching Assistant Level 3 NEW St Margaret's CE Primary (Heywood) Posted today Rochdale £19,560[...]

Rochdale Borough Council; Heywood; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

St Margaret’s C.E. Primary School is seeking a dedicated teaching assistant to enhance the learning experience of its pupils. The successful candidate will support teachers with classroom activities and lead learning sessions, ensuring an engaging atmosphere that promotes independence. Applicants must be flexible, motivated, and able to communicate effectively in English. This role offers a chance to work within a supportive team committed to providing the best for students.

Qualifications

• Ability to converse with customers and service users in accurate spoken English.
• Experience in leading educational activities and providing support in a classroom setting.

Responsibilities

• Support teachers and lead learning for PPA, staff cover, and absence.
• Engage and motivate pupils, ensuring an interesting and challenging learning environment.

Skills

Engagement

Flexibility

Motivation

Communication

Job description

St Margaret’s C.E. Primary School is a “Good” and happy primary school with outstanding behaviour and attitudes. We have extremely high standards and a relentless determination to provide the best for all our pupils, our families and our staff team. Our Christian values underpin everything about our wonderful school.

We are seeking to appoint an engaging, enthusiastic, flexible, highly motivated and hard-working teaching assistant to join our caring and friendly staff at St Margaret’s C.E. Primary School. In return we can offer you a fantastic team of committed individuals to work alongside who support each other and excellent professional development too. The position could be placed anywhere in school during the school day and the successful candidate would be expected to lead learning for PPA, staff cover and staff absence where needed, sometimes at short notice as well as supporting the teacher and pupils in class.

Our pupils are amazing! They expect teaching and learning to be interesting, engaging, with good pace and challenging. They want staff who are firm but fair, who are consistent, rewarding achievement and good behaviour and put consequences and support in place as necessary. Our pupils want a teaching assistant that makes learning fun, but that stretches them and promotes them to become independent learners. Our pupils want someone who has time for them and supports them to be the best that they can be.

We were inspected by Ofsted last March and we were graded Good overall with Outstanding in behaviour and attitude. Our school community is very proud of this.

To apply for this position please download the application form and supporting documentation and send completed applications to [e-mail] by Friday 9 th May 2025

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring and background check

The ability to converse at ease with customers and service users and provide advice in accurate spoken English is an essential requirement of this post.

Applicants are advised that by applying for this position they are declaring that they are not subject to any immigration controls or restrictions that prohibit them undertaking work in the UK, and that they are able to provide proof of their Right to Work in the UK if they are invited to attend an interview.

The school will carry out an online search as part of their due-diligence for all shortlisted candidates in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.

Applicants are informed that if appointed to this post their contract of employment will be with the school governing board who is the employer, and not Rochdale Council.