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L2 Teaching Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 20 November 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 04 December 2025
Location: Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 5DF
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 9c73f3dc-52b0-4e55-96fc-95c4be895d8a

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Skills

• Good numeracy/literacy skills.

• Ability to observe and monitor progress, and maintain records.
• Able to maintain confidentiality.
• Willingness to support additional offsite educational activities

• Have good communication and expressive skills.
• Model exemplary behaviour; supervise children, encourage good social skills and adhere to defined standards.
• Liaise and communicate effectively with others.
• Demonstrate good organisational skills.
• Work with an individual or a group.
• Teach new concepts as agreed with the class teacher.
• Implement strategies for developing writing, reading, and number skills.
• Extend children’s thinking skills.
• Assess children’s understanding.
• Discuss with children their understanding of learning objectives.
• Suggest ways of developing their learning.
• Able to develop good personal relationships within a team.
• Able to establish and develop positive relationships with parents, governors and the community.
• Ability to use ICT to support learning.


Behaviour management strategies.

What the school offers its staff

We will offer the successful candidate:

• A friendly and supportive environment
• A chance to make a real difference in the lives of our wonderful children
• Opportunities for continued professional development

Further details about the role

Post Title: Level 2 Teaching Assistant

Salary: NJC SCP 5-6 £25,583-£25,989 FTE (Actual Salary 28.75hpw £17,651-£17,931 & 16.25hpw £9,976-£10,135)

Hours: 2 Posts 28.75 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 5 days) 1 permanent post and 1 temporary post linked to funding

Hours: 1 Post 16.25 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 5 days), temporary linked to funding

Accountable to: Headteacher & SLT

Location: Cronton CE Primary School

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.

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