The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Teaching Assistant Level 3 at Wild Bank Community School, Demesne Drive, Stalybridge, SK15 2PG.
Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.
Wild Bank is a one form entry school with 31 staff and 146 pupils aged between 3 and 11. Wild Bank’s school motto is ‘Working together we can achieve our best’.
Details about the role:
To start 1st September 2025 to 31st August 2026
Teaching Assistant Level 3 full-time Salary £27,269-£29,572
The role is fixed-term, part-time 25 hours per week, Term Time Only
With an actual salary - £16,205-£17,547 (Grade E Point 11-16).
The hours are:
Tues 8:30-3:30, Wed 8:30-3.30, Thu 8:30-4:00 (Staff Meeting), Friday 8:30 3:30 1 hour lunch each day with one 30min lunchtime club per week.
We are a small one-form entry school with delightful children and dedicated and friendly staff. We require a Level 3 Teaching Assistant for 4 days per week. We will also require the suitable candidate to be flexible to cover in various classes at other times and to provide smaller group support for classes when needed. Experience of working across a variety of age-ranges is desirable. See job description for further information.
For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.
The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:
- Applications close at 09:00 on Thursday 17th July 2025 although the Trust reserve the right to close the process early if suitable candidates are identified through our selection process.
- Interviews will take place on Monday 21st July 2025
- Visits to the school are encouraged and warmly welcomed.
Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.
All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.
All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Wild Bank Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
