Level 3 Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 03 December 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 December 2025 |
| Location: | Oldham, Lancashire, OL8 3PH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5569498b-a65f-4ba5-a65a-9076fbb0b403 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• Minimum 3 years’ experience of supporting young people with complex needs and/or a range of learning difficulties within an SEN setting
• Experience of supporting teaching and learning activities for students including the preparation and organisational processes involved in the day to day running of a lesson
• Experience of working in partnership with classroom teachers to differentiate appropriate interventions for students in relation to the curriculum
• Experience of providing cover in the short-term absence of the class teacher
• Experience of monitoring and assessing student progress and engagement; and providing regular feedback to stakeholders.
• A nurturing and empathetic approach to behaviour management
• The physical and emotional resilience to support pupils with complex needs, taking a non-judgemental approach and understanding that all behaviour is a form of communication
• The ability to build relationshipswithstudents,families andkey partnersaround thestudents.
• Experience of supervising students over lunch and break times as directed
• The ability to work as part of a team using own initiative when needed
• Willingness to participate in own professional development
• Experience of delivering bespoke interventions to individuals or small groups of learners
• Experience of supporting young people to overcome barriers to their personal, social or learning development from a pastoral perspective
• Experience of intervening to support students incrisisor traumaby using eitheremotionalor educational support
What the school offers its staff
Occupational pension scheme, occupational sickness scheme, TOIL /Health benefit scheme
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.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience of supporting young people with complex needs and/or a range of learning difficulties within an SEN setting
• Experience of supporting teaching and learning activities for students including the preparation and organisational processes involved in the day to day running of a lesson
• Experience of working in partnership with classroom teachers to differentiate appropriate interventions for students in relation to the curriculum
• Experience of providing cover in the short-term absence of the class teacher
• Experience of monitoring and assessing student progress and engagement; and providing regular feedback to stakeholders.
• A nurturing and empathetic approach to behaviour management
• The physical and emotional resilience to support pupils with complex needs, taking a non-judgemental approach and understanding that all behaviour is a form of communication
• The ability to build relationshipswithstudents,families andkey partnersaround thestudents.
• Experience of supervising students over lunch and break times as directed
• The ability to work as part of a team using own initiative when needed
• Willingness to participate in own professional development
• Experience of delivering bespoke interventions to individuals or small groups of learners
• Experience of supporting young people to overcome barriers to their personal, social or learning development from a pastoral perspective
• Experience of intervening to support students incrisisor traumaby using eitheremotionalor educational support
What the school offers its staff
Occupational pension scheme, occupational sickness scheme, TOIL /Health benefit scheme
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.