Teaching Assistant

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Teaching Assistant

Contract type:

Fixed Term, 12 months initially, 32.5 hours per week term time only

Location: Gatley Primary School

Required from:

September 2026

Salary:

Scale 3 Point 5-6 £25.583 – £25,989 Pro rata

Actual salary: £19,220.82 - £19,525.75

Closing date

: Wednesday 8th July 2026

Interview date

: Monday 13th July 2026

Are you passionate

about supporting the delivery of a rich curriculum that consists of a wide

range of activities and experiences across and beyond the classroom?

Do

you enjoy making a positive difference in children's lives, including

supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to

achieve their full potential?

Do you want to work

in an outstanding school, with an outstanding staff team, where the voice of

the child is paramount to our learning?

Do you want to be

part of an organisation which focuses strongly the professional development and

empowerment of staff?

At Gatley

Primary, we are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join our team. Our Teaching

Assistants work closely with groups of children as well as individual children,

including those with EHCPs, to deliver personalised learning programmes and

interventions. We provide a learning environment that aims to create a warm,

friendly atmosphere in which children can grow and develop both academically

and personally. We take pride in our achievements and have high

expectations for each child in every aspect of their work – captured by our

underlying school mission statement –‘Enjoying Learning and Achieving

Together’. We recognise that positive mental health and well-being, along

with personal growth, are essential to the development of thriving and

successful pupils and staff.

The successful

candidate will demonstrate necessary skills in order to enhance school life in

order to maximise opportunities for pupils. They will have high expectations of

themselves and others, and this will reflect the Trust’s approach of

collaboration and empowerment in order to achieve. The successful candidate

will also demonstrate a real commitment to safeguarding and safe working

practices which is fundamental to the Trust’s ethos and values.