Teaching Assistant Level 2 (English)
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 June 2025 |
| Location: | Salford, M30 7JJ |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75699441 |
Summary
Job Title: Level 2 Teaching Assistant (English)
Start date: 1st September 2025, subject to DBS and references.
Thank you for taking the time to consider applying for the post of Level 2 Teaching Assistant.
At St Patrick’s, it is our mission to ensure that children experience a truly great Catholic education that enables them to flourish academically and shine personally, preparing them for a happy and successful adult life. We are committed to helping every child become the very best version of themselves.
Our school motto is ‘amazing things happen here’ and you only have to spend five minutes in our school to realise that this is absolutely true. We have a strong and dedicated team of professionals who challenge and support students to achieve amazing things and they work hard to create an environment, built on mutual respect, whereby students rise to the challenges set for them. Our strength comes from our drive for excellence in all that we do and our consistent and persistent approach.
We are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where staff feel valued and trusted, and where collaborative working is at the heart of everything we do. We also recognise the importance of supporting our staff to continuously develop in order for them to achieve their own professional career goals.
If you meet the role criteria, are an excellent practitioner and believe that a great education can transform a child’s life and future, we would love to hear from you!
Mrs Alison Byrne
Headteacher
Why St Patrick’s?
Our People Values
Our core people values are at the heart of every decision that we make as an employer. Our aims are:
- To fulfil our Catholic mission, to ensure our children and staff live life to the full.
- To attract, recruit, develop and retain high performing staff, to ensure that we allow pupils to become the best version of themselves.
- To provide a workplace where staff feel valued and trusted.
- To develop and support the growth of leadership and management.
- To promote a culture focused on diversity, inclusivity and wellbeing by creating a healthy work environment to enable staff to perform at their best.
- To provide strong and consistent HR services for all staff, across all school areas.
- To serve the wider education system and provide opportunities for our staff to lead across other schools.
Our Benefits
We have a range of employee benefits available to all our staff. We are always looking at ways in which we can improve our offering to ensure the benefits are valued by our staff.
CPD
We have a strong focus on CDP for our employees, ensuring that learning and development opportunities are offered throughout the academic year. This includes exciting career opportunities to work across other schools.
Pension
An employee earning more than £10,000 and who is more than 22 years of age will automatically be enrolled into one of our workplace pension schemes with excellent employer contributions.
Family Leave
Enhanced family leave is available to support our staff with family commitments and emergencies.
Flexible working
Where possible, we support staff with the ability to work flexibly and recognise the need to work/life balance.
Subsidised Gym Membership
Via our payroll provider, Salford City Council, we are able to offer discount on Salford Council run leisure facilities.
Wellbeing strategy
We are focused on bringing staff wellbeing to the forefront of our people agenda. With an annual wellbeing calendar place, we run events throughout the year to celebrate staff and our school.
We also have an independent Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational health provider in place to support staff with any wellbeing needs.
We are always looking for ways to improve our offering and staff feedback is at the heart of this.
Job Summary
The Governors of St Patrick’s RC High School are looking to appoint an excellent Level 2 Teaching Assistant, who is committed to ensuring our school continues to offer an inclusive environment for all pupils.
Duties will include providing support to teachers, working with pupils on an individual and small group basis to help with their learning in English. Lesson cover may also be required after training in this area.
The successful candidate will:
- Have a love for education and learning.
- Feel passionately about inclusion for all.
- Have experience/a background in supporting pupils with additional needs.
- Have good subject knowledge of English Language and English Literature.
- Have high regard for their learning environment and resources.
- Have the desire to inspire, engage and enthuse students.
- Engage with professional development opportunities, training sessions and CPD.
Closing date for applications: Thursday 15th May 2025, 12 noon.
Interviews: w/c 19th 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. This post is subject to a fully enhanced DBS check.
If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
We will not be accepting candidates who require a sponsorship for this position.
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